Update release notes for changes through 2009-05-11. Also some minor

copy-editing and reordering of items.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
index 7dfc0692514d88d14e7624b6cb625a18efe92031..c280be7cda11f8a8c57ab7060afed6b9925e60ed 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   
    Release date
-   2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-04-08
+   2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-05-11
   
 
   
@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Change default setting for max_prepared_transactions to
+       zero (previously it was 5) (Tom)
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Make debug_print_parse, debug_print_rewritten,
@@ -704,13 +711,6 @@
      Authentication and security
      
 
-      
-       
-        Report appropriate error message for combination of MD5
-        authentication and db_user_namespace enabled (Bruce)
-       
-      
-
       
        
         Remove support for the (insecure) crypt authentication method
@@ -751,6 +751,13 @@
         commercial CAs.
        
       
+
+      
+       
+        Report appropriate error message for combination of MD5
+        authentication and db_user_namespace enabled (Bruce)
+       
+      
      
 
     
@@ -761,23 +768,15 @@
 
       
        
-        Parse pg_hba.conf fully when it is loaded,
-        so that errors are reported immediately (Magnus)
+        Change all authentication options to use name=value
+        syntax (Magnus)
        
 
        
-        Previously, most errors in the file wouldn't be detected until clients
-        tried to connect, so an erroneous file could render the system
-        unusable.  With the new behavior, if an error is detected during
-        reload then the bad file is rejected and the postmaster continues
-        to use its old copy.
-       
-      
-
-      
-       
-        Show all parsing errors in pg_hba.conf instead of
-        aborting after the first one (Selena Deckelmann)
+        This makes incompatible changes to the ldap,
+        pam and ident authentication methods. All
+        pg_hba.conf entries with these methods need to be
+        rewritten using the new format.
        
       
 
@@ -788,20 +787,6 @@
        
       
 
-      
-       
-        Change all authentication options to use name=value
-        syntax (Magnus)
-       
-
-       
-        This makes incompatible changes to the ldap,
-        pam and ident authentication methods. All
-        pg_hba.conf entries with these methods need to be
-        rewritten using the new format.
-       
-      
-
       
        
         Allow a usermap parameter for all external authentication methods
@@ -864,6 +849,28 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Parse pg_hba.conf fully when it is loaded,
+        so that errors are reported immediately (Magnus)
+       
+
+       
+        Previously, most errors in the file wouldn't be detected until clients
+        tried to connect, so an erroneous file could render the system
+        unusable.  With the new behavior, if an error is detected during
+        reload then the bad file is rejected and the postmaster continues
+        to use its old copy.
+       
+      
+
+      
+       
+        Show all parsing errors in pg_hba.conf instead of
+        aborting after the first one (Selena Deckelmann)
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Support ident authentication over Unix-domain sockets
@@ -1139,6 +1146,18 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Reject \000 in string literals and COPY data
+       (Tom)
+      
+
+      
+       Previously, this was accepted but had the effect of terminating
+       the string contents.
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Improve the parser's ability to report error locations (Tom)
@@ -1463,7 +1482,13 @@
        
         Improve checks that the database encoding, collation
         (LC_COLLATE), and character classes
-        (LC_CTYPE) match (Heikki)
+        (LC_CTYPE) match (Heikki, Tom)
+       
+
+       
+        Note in particular that a new database's encoding and locale
+        settings can be changed only when copying from template0.
+        This prevents possibly copying data that doesn't match the settings.
        
       
 
@@ -2247,6 +2272,27 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Make EXIT without a label always exit the innermost
+        loop (Tom)
+       
+
+       
+        Formerly, if there were a BEGIN block more closely nested
+        than any loop, it would exit that block instead.  The new behavior
+        matches Oracle(TM) and is also what was previously stated by our own
+        documentation.
+       
+      
+
+      
+       
+        Make processing of string literals and nested block comments
+        match the main SQL parser's processing (Tom)
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Avoid memory leakage when the same function is called at varying
@@ -2467,6 +2513,13 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Add a function type column to \df's output, and add
+        options to list only selected types of functions (David Fetter)
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Make \df not hide functions that take or return
@@ -2638,8 +2691,8 @@
 
       
        
-        Make Kerberos use the same method to determine the username of the
-        client as all other authentication methods (Magnus)
+        Make Kerberos connections use the same method to determine the
+        username of the client as all other authentication methods (Magnus)
        
 
        
@@ -2666,13 +2719,10 @@
         and the name of the server when making SSL
         connections. If a root certificate is not available to use for
         verification, SSL connections will fail. The
-        sslmode parameter is used to enable the certificate
-        verification and set the level.
-       
-
-       
+        sslmode parameter is used to enable certificate
+        verification and set the level of checking.
         The default is still not to do any verification, allowing connections
-        to SSL enabled servers without requiring a root certificate on the
+        to SSL-enabled servers without requiring a root certificate on the
         client.
        
       
@@ -3013,6 +3063,13 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Recover better if dynamically-loaded code executes exit()
+       (Tom)
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Add a hook to let plug-ins monitor the executor (Itagaki
@@ -3159,6 +3216,21 @@
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       Make contrib/pgbench use table names
+       pgbench_accounts, pgbench_branches,
+       pgbench_history, and pgbench_tellers,
+       rather than just accounts, branches,
+       history, and tellers (Tom)
+      
+
+      
+       This is to reduce the risk of accidentally destroying real data
+       by running pgbench.
+      
+     
+
      
       
        Fix contrib/pgstattuple to handle tables and