Add compatibility note warning that plpgsql is now stricter about the column

datatypes of composite results, per gripe from Marcel Asio.  Some desultory
copy-editing of plpgsql-related sections of the release notes.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
index 980d59870c9ab7f7683ffa23c576ee1317a92c9f..ee5abc0da3d8d13c924f2cf642330842ec4661a6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   Release 9.0
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@
     
 
      
-      Built-in, binary, log-based replication.  This advance consists of two features:
-      Hot Standby allows continuous archive standby database servers to accept read-only
-      queries, and Streaming Replication allows continuous archive (WAL) files 
-      to be streamed over a network port to a standby database server.
+      Built-in, binary, log-based replication.  This advance consists of two
+      features: Hot Standby allows continuous archive standby database servers
+      to accept read-only queries, and Streaming Replication allows continuous
+      archive (WAL) files to be streamed over a network port to a
+      standby database server.
      
     
 
@@ -54,8 +55,9 @@
       Broadly enhanced stored procedure support.
       The DO statement permits
       ad-hoc or anonymous code blocks.  Functions can now be called using named
-      parameters.  PL/pgSQL is now installed by default, and PL/Perl and PL/Python
-      have been enhanced in several ways, including support for Python3.
+      parameters.  PL/pgSQL is now installed by default, and PL/Perl and
+      PL/Python have been enhanced in several ways, including support for
+      Python3.
      
     
 
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@
      
       Triggers now support two new features,
       SQL-compliant 
-      linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER">per-column triggers, and 
+      linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER">per-column triggers, and
       conditional trigger execution.
      
     
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@
     
      
       The LISTEN/
-      linkend="SQL-NOTIFY">NOTIFY 
+      linkend="SQL-NOTIFY">NOTIFY
       feature has been overhauled to make it into
       a high-performance event queuing system.  It now stores
       events in a memory-based queue, and it now allows delivery
@@ -134,16 +136,17 @@
 
   
    A dump/restore using pg_dump
-   or use of pg_upgrade is required 
+   or use of pg_upgrade is required
    for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
    release.
   
 
   
-   Version 9.0 contains a number of changes which selectively break backwards compatibility
-   in order to support new features and code quality improvements.  Particularly, users
-   who make extensive use of PL/pgSQL and/or PITR and Warm Standby should test their
-   solutions for breakage.  Observe the following incompatibilities:
+   Version 9.0 contains a number of changes which selectively break backwards
+   compatibility in order to support new features and code quality
+   improvements.  Particularly, users who make extensive use of PL/pgSQL
+   and/or PITR and Warm Standby should test their solutions for breakage.
+   Observe the following incompatibilities:
   
 
   
@@ -270,15 +273,15 @@
 
     
      
-      No longer change function input variable names via 
-      REPLACE FUNCTION(Pavel Stehule).
+      CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION can no longer change
+      the declared names of function parameters (Pavel Stehule)
      
 
      
-      In order to support names parameter calls, it is
-      no longer possible to change the aliases for input variables
-      in the function declaration in place.  You now have to DROP
-       and recreate the function.
+      In order to support named-parameter calls, it is
+      no longer allowed to change the aliases for input variables
+      in the declaration of an existing function.  You now have to
+      <command>DROP</command> and recreate the function.
      
     
 
@@ -287,46 +290,65 @@
   
 
   
-   PL/pgSQL<span class="marked"> Variables</span>
+   PL/pgSQL
    
 
     
      
-      Have PL/pgSQL throw an error if a variable name conflicts with a
+      PL/pgSQL now throws an error if a variable name conflicts with a
       column name used in a query (Tom Lane)
      
 
      
-      This behavior can be changed via the server variable 
+      The former behavior was to bind to variable names in preference to
+      query column names, which often resulted in surprising misbehavior.
+      Throwing an error allows easy detection of ambiguous situations.
+      Although it's recommended that functions encountering this type of
+      error be modified to remove the conflict, the old behavior can be
+      restored if necessary via the configuration parameter 
       linkend="plpgsql-var-subst">plpgsql.variable_conflict,
-      or by the per-function option #variable_conflict.
-      The former behavior was to bind to variable names over
-      column names, but not consistently.  Stored procedures
-      with naming conflicts will probably need to be refactored.
+      or via the per-function option #variable_conflict.
      
     
 
     
      
-      Remove PL/pgSQL's RENAME declaration option (Tom Lane)
+      PL/pgSQL no longer allows variable names that match SQL
+      reserved words (Tom Lane)
      
 
      
-      Instead, use 
-      linkend="plpgsql-declaration-parameters">ALIAS,
-      which can now alias any variable, not just dollar sign
-      variables, e.g. $1.
+      This is a consequence of aligning the PL/pgSQL parser to match the
+      core SQL parser more closely.  If necessary,
+      variable names can be double-quoted to avoid this restriction.
      
     
 
     
      
-      PL/pgSQL no longer allows unquoted variables names that match SQL
-      reserved words (Tom Lane)
+      PL/pgSQL now requires columns of composite results to match the
+      expected type modifier as well as base type (Pavel Stehule, Tom Lane)
+     
+
+     
+      For example, if a column of the result type is declared as
+      NUMERIC(30,2), it is no longer acceptable to return a
+      NUMERIC of some other precision in that column.  Previous
+      versions neglected to check the type modifier and would thus allow
+      result rows that didn't actually conform to the declared restrictions.
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Remove PL/pgSQL's RENAME declaration option (Tom Lane)
      
 
      
-      Variables can be double-quoted to avoid this restriction.  
+      Instead of RENAME, use 
+      linkend="plpgsql-declaration-alias">ALIAS,
+      which can now alias any variable, not just dollar sign
+      parameter names (such as $1).
      
     
    
@@ -339,12 +361,12 @@
     
       
        Remove support for platforms that don't have a working 64-bit
-       integer data types (Tom Lane)
+       integer data type (Tom Lane)
       
 
       
-       It is believed all supported platforms have working 64-bit integer
-       data types.
+       It is believed all still-supported platforms have working 64-bit
+       integer data types.
       
      
     
@@ -354,7 +376,7 @@
  
   Changes
    
-    Version 9.0 has an unprecedented number of new major features, 
+    Version 9.0 has an unprecedented number of new major features,
     and over 200 enhancements, improvements, new commands,
     new functions, and other changes.
    
@@ -423,8 +445,9 @@
     Performance
 
     
-     Version 9.0 also contains several performance and optimizer enhancements to 
-     improve specific uses of PostgreSQL and remedy certain poor-performing cases.
+     Version 9.0 also contains several performance and optimizer enhancements
+     to improve specific uses of PostgreSQL and remedy certain poor-performing
+     cases.
     
 
     
@@ -469,7 +492,7 @@
 
       
        Outer joins where the inner side is unique and not referenced in
-       the query are unnecessary and are therefore now removed.  This will 
+       the query are unnecessary and are therefore now removed.  This will
        accelerate many automatically generated queries, such as those created
        by object-relational mappers.
       
@@ -651,7 +674,7 @@
    
     Monitoring
     
-     With increased use of PostgreSQL in high-end production systems, 
+     With increased use of PostgreSQL in high-end production systems,
      users need increased monitoring.  PostgresSQL 9.0 continues to add
      more ways to monitor PostgreSQL applications.
     
@@ -667,7 +690,7 @@
       
 
       
-       This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic 
+       This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic
        and troubleshoot problems by source application.
       
      
@@ -746,7 +769,7 @@
        in the new pg_db_role_setting system table. A new
        psql \drds command shows these settings.
        Backwards-compatible system views do not show this information.
-       The primary use of this feature is setting schema 
+       The primary use of this feature is setting schema
        search_path.
       
 
@@ -863,7 +886,7 @@
      
 
      
-      For drivers which support this feature, this saves an entire 
+      For drivers that support this feature, this saves an entire
       round-trip to the client, allowing result counts and pagination
       to be calculated without a second COUNT query.
      
@@ -1057,13 +1080,13 @@
        TABLE CONSTRAINT ... EXCLUDE clause. While
        uniqueness checks could be specified using this syntax,
        the real value of this feature is in using complex
-       operators that do not have built-in constraints. 
+       operators that do not have built-in constraints.
       
 
       
        The primary use of exclusion constraints is to allow defining
        non-overlapping uniqueness, such as for time periods, arrays
-       or ranges of values. This supports data integrity at the 
+       or ranges of values. This supports data integrity at the
        table level for calendaring, time-management, and scientific
        applications.
       
@@ -1134,7 +1157,7 @@
 
      
       LISTEN/NOTIFY may now be used as a full-featured, high-performance
-      event queue system for PostgreSQL, with transactional support 
+      event queue system for PostgreSQL, with transactional support
       and guaranteed delivery.
      
     
@@ -1201,7 +1224,7 @@
       
 
       
-       The new output formats will support the development of new tools 
+       The new output formats will support the development of new tools
        for analysis of EXPLAIN output.
       
      
@@ -1255,7 +1278,7 @@
       
 
       
-       The previous method was usually slower and caused index bloat.  
+       The previous method was usually slower and caused index bloat.
        Note that the new method may use more disk space during VACUUM
        FULL.
       
@@ -1306,9 +1329,9 @@
       
 
       
-       This feature supports GiST indexing of point operations on polygons, 
+       This feature supports GiST indexing of point operations on polygons,
        circles, and other points, such as "point is in polygon".  Previously
-       indexing only worked for bounding boxes.  This should make many 
+       indexing only worked for bounding boxes.  This should make many
        PostGIS queries faster.
       
      
@@ -1688,21 +1711,30 @@
 
      
       
-       Install server-side language PL/pgSQL by default (Bruce Momjian)
+       Install PL/pgSQL by default (Bruce Momjian)
       
      
 
      
       
-       Allow PL/pgSQL to handle row types with dropped columns (Pavel Stehule)
+       Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns
+       (Pavel Stehule)
       
      
 
      
       
-       Allow IN parameters to be assigned values within
+       Allow input parameters to be assigned values within
        PL/pgSQL functions (Steve Prentice)
       
+
+      
+       Formerly, input parameters were treated as being declared
+       CONST.  This restriction has been removed to simplify
+       porting of functions from other DBMSes that do not impose the
+       equivalent restriction.  An input parameter now acts like a local
+       variable initialized to the passed-in value.
+      
      
 
      
@@ -1713,21 +1745,19 @@
 
      
       
-       Have PL/pgSQL use the main lexer, rather than a custom version (Tom Lane)
+       Make PL/pgSQL use the main lexer, rather than its own version
+       (Tom Lane)
       
-     
-
-    
 
-   >
-
-   
-    <link linkend="plpgsql-cursors">PL/pgSQL Cursors</link></title</span>></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <span class="marked"><itemizedlist</span>></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <span class="marked">   <para</span>></div>
<div class="diff add">+       This ensures accurate tracking of the main system's behavior for details</div>
<div class="diff add">+       such as string escaping.</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <span class="marked">  </para</span>></div>
<div class="diff add">+    <span class="marked"> </listitem</span>></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       Add <span class="marked">count</span> and <literal>ALL</> options to <command>MOVE</div>
<div class="diff add">+       Add <span class="marked"><replaceable>count</></span> and <literal>ALL</> options to <command>MOVE</div>
<div class="diff ctx">        FORWARD</>/<literal>BACKWARD</> in PL/pgSQL (Pavel Stehule)</div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </para></div>
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<div class="diff rem">-       (Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro)</div>
<div class="diff add">+       A<span class="marked">llow PL/pgSQL's <command>OPEN <replaceable>cursor</> FOR EXECUTE</> to</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <span class="marked">use parameters </span>(Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro)</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      Enable the server lexer to be reentrant (Tom Lane)</div>
<div class="diff add">+      Enable the server<span class="marked">'s</span> lexer to be reentrant (Tom Lane)</div>
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<div class="diff rem">-      This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens, and </div>
<div class="diff rem">-      makes full-text searches over multiple languages much </div>
<div class="diff rem">-      easier.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      This filter dictionary removes accents from letters, which</div>
<div class="diff add">+      makes full-text searches over multiple languages much easier.</div>
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