From 9d050969966e9a1c1cd3f99812617f6c64f5703b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:26:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for 9.5.2, 9.4.7, 9.3.12, 9.2.16, 9.1.21. --- doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml | 219 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 631 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml index 4c7141ee917..09811c1a4f1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,212 @@ + + Release 9.1.21 + + + Release Date + 2016-03-31 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.20. + For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.1.21 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.16, + see . + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in + indexed ROW() comparisons (Tom Lane) + + + + An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > + ROW('x', 'y') would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in + the b column, ignoring the fact that there might be + non-NULL b values associated with later values + of a. + + + + + + Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without + adequate fsync() calls before and after (Michael Paquier, + Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund) + + + + + + Correctly handle cases where pg_subtrans is close to XID + wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Fix corner-case crash due to trying to free localeconv() + output strings more than once (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix parsing of affix files for ispell dictionaries + (Tom Lane) + + + + The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters + whose byte length changes during case-folding, for + example I in Turkish UTF8 locales. + + + + + + Avoid use of sscanf() to parse ispell + dictionary files (Artur Zakirov) + + + + This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms + (including OS X). + + + + + + Avoid a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an + AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013 + (Christian Ullrich) + + + + This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime + library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that + version. + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion logic to handle multibyte + characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas) + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion for + SECURITY LABEL (Tom Lane) + + + + Pressing TAB after SECURITY LABEL might cause a crash + or offering of inappropriate keywords. + + + + + + Make pg_ctl accept a wait timeout from the + PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable, if none is specified on + the command line (Noah Misch) + + + + This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them + to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster + startup and shutdown. + + + + + + Fix incorrect test for Windows service status + in pg_ctl (Manuel Mathar) + + + + The previous set of minor releases attempted to + fix pg_ctl to properly determine whether to send log + messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards. + + + + + + Fix pgbench to correctly handle the combination + of -C and -M prepared options (Tom Lane) + + + + + + In PL/Perl, properly translate empty Postgres arrays into empty Perl + arrays (Alex Hunsaker) + + + + + + Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python + identifiers (Jim Nasby) + + + + + + Fix multiple mistakes in the statistics returned + by contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() + function (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Remove dependency on psed in MSVC builds, since it's no + longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016c + for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia + (Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus + historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia + (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd). + + + + + + + + Release 9.1.20 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml index cda6cebfb56..95a7f23cc38 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,212 @@ + + Release 9.2.16 + + + Release Date + 2016-03-31 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.15. + For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.2.16 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.11, + see . + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in + indexed ROW() comparisons (Tom Lane) + + + + An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > + ROW('x', 'y') would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in + the b column, ignoring the fact that there might be + non-NULL b values associated with later values + of a. + + + + + + Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without + adequate fsync() calls before and after (Michael Paquier, + Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund) + + + + + + Correctly handle cases where pg_subtrans is close to XID + wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Fix corner-case crash due to trying to free localeconv() + output strings more than once (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix parsing of affix files for ispell dictionaries + (Tom Lane) + + + + The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters + whose byte length changes during case-folding, for + example I in Turkish UTF8 locales. + + + + + + Avoid use of sscanf() to parse ispell + dictionary files (Artur Zakirov) + + + + This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms + (including OS X). + + + + + + Avoid a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an + AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013 + (Christian Ullrich) + + + + This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime + library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that + version. + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion logic to handle multibyte + characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas) + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion for + SECURITY LABEL (Tom Lane) + + + + Pressing TAB after SECURITY LABEL might cause a crash + or offering of inappropriate keywords. + + + + + + Make pg_ctl accept a wait timeout from the + PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable, if none is specified on + the command line (Noah Misch) + + + + This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them + to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster + startup and shutdown. + + + + + + Fix incorrect test for Windows service status + in pg_ctl (Manuel Mathar) + + + + The previous set of minor releases attempted to + fix pg_ctl to properly determine whether to send log + messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards. + + + + + + Fix pgbench to correctly handle the combination + of -C and -M prepared options (Tom Lane) + + + + + + In PL/Perl, properly translate empty Postgres arrays into empty Perl + arrays (Alex Hunsaker) + + + + + + Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python + identifiers (Jim Nasby) + + + + + + Fix multiple mistakes in the statistics returned + by contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() + function (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Remove dependency on psed in MSVC builds, since it's no + longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016c + for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia + (Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus + historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia + (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd). + + + + + + + + Release 9.2.15 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml index 6a708c44af3..9cb59b0cb34 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,225 @@ + + Release 9.3.12 + + + Release Date + 2016-03-31 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.11. + For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.3.12 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.9, + see . + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in + indexed ROW() comparisons (Tom Lane) + + + + An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > + ROW('x', 'y') would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in + the b column, ignoring the fact that there might be + non-NULL b values associated with later values + of a. + + + + + + Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without + adequate fsync() calls before and after (Michael Paquier, + Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund) + + + + + + Correctly handle cases where pg_subtrans is close to XID + wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Fix corner-case crash due to trying to free localeconv() + output strings more than once (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix parsing of affix files for ispell dictionaries + (Tom Lane) + + + + The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters + whose byte length changes during case-folding, for + example I in Turkish UTF8 locales. + + + + + + Avoid use of sscanf() to parse ispell + dictionary files (Artur Zakirov) + + + + This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms + (including OS X). + + + + + + Avoid a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an + AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013 + (Christian Ullrich) + + + + This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime + library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that + version. + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion logic to handle multibyte + characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas) + + + + + + Fix psql's tab completion for + SECURITY LABEL (Tom Lane) + + + + Pressing TAB after SECURITY LABEL might cause a crash + or offering of inappropriate keywords. + + + + + + Make pg_ctl accept a wait timeout from the + PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable, if none is specified on + the command line (Noah Misch) + + + + This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them + to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster + startup and shutdown. + + + + + + Fix incorrect test for Windows service status + in pg_ctl (Manuel Mathar) + + + + The previous set of minor releases attempted to + fix pg_ctl to properly determine whether to send log + messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards. + + + + + + Fix pgbench to correctly handle the combination + of -C and -M prepared options (Tom Lane) + + + + + + In pg_upgrade, skip creating a deletion script when + the new data directory is inside the old data directory (Bruce + Momjian) + + + + Blind application of the script in such cases would result in loss of + the new data directory. + + + + + + In PL/Perl, properly translate empty Postgres arrays into empty Perl + arrays (Alex Hunsaker) + + + + + + Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python + identifiers (Jim Nasby) + + + + + + Fix multiple mistakes in the statistics returned + by contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() + function (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Remove dependency on psed in MSVC builds, since it's no + longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016c + for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia + (Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus + historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia + (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd). + + + + + + + + Release 9.3.11 -- 2.39.5