Update release notes to today.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
index b00cb16dba7a2c02142bcb15284f84eb49ffdfca..8b69ae07364ed07f88bf5fcf2a081e7b8bf3465d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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+
 
 
  
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   
    Release date
-   2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-05-14
+   2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-06-11
   
 
   
@@ -922,6 +922,14 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        When archiving is enabled, rotate the last WAL segment at shutdown
+        so that all transactions can be archived immediately
+        (Guillaume Smet, Heikki)
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Delay smart shutdown while a continuous archiving base backup
@@ -1793,7 +1801,8 @@
 
       
        
-        Make parsing of interval literals more standard-compliant (Tom)
+        Make parsing of interval literals more standard-compliant
+        (Tom, Ron Mayer)
        
 
        
@@ -2049,6 +2058,13 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Allow the second argument of pg_get_expr() to be zero
+        when deparsing an expression that does not contain variables (Tom)
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Modify pg_relation_size() to use regclass
@@ -2108,11 +2124,25 @@
       
        
         Fix the behavior of information schema columns
-        <literal>is_insertable_into and >is_updatable to
+        <structfield>is_insertable_into and >is_updatable to
         be consistent (Peter)
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Improve the behavior of information schema
+        datetime_precision columns (Peter)
+       
+
+       
+        These columns now show zero for date columns, and 6
+        (the default precision) for time, timestamp, and
+        interval without a declared precision, rather than showing
+        null as formerly.
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use
@@ -3280,6 +3310,13 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Enable contrib/dblink to use connection information
+       stored in the SQL/MED catalogs (Joe Conway)
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Improve contrib/dblink's reporting of errors from
@@ -3287,6 +3324,18 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Make contrib/dblink set client_encoding
+       to match the local database's encoding (Joe Conway)
+      
+
+      
+       This prevents encoding problems when communicating with a remote
+       database that uses a different encoding.
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Make sure contrib/dblink uses a password supplied