Re: Time for 7.2.1? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

The ecpg Patch I send correct a bug in the pre-processor that it would be
nice to have in this release.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: [HACKERS] Time for 7.2.1?


> Seems like it's about time to release 7.2.1.  We have enough
> post-release patches in there that a dot-release is clearly needed
> (particularly for the pg_dump-related issues).  And it seems like
> not too much new stuff is coming in.  Does anyone have any issues
> outstanding that need to be dealt with before 7.2.1?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
> Post-release patches in the 7.2 branch:
>
> 2002-03-05 01:10  momjian
>
> * contrib/tsearch/dict/porter_english.dct (REL7_2_STABLE): Please,
> apply attached patch for contrib/tsearch to 7.2.1 and current CVS.
> It  fix english stemmer's problem with ending words like
> 'technology'.
>
> We have found one more bug in english stemmer. The bug is with
> 'irregular'  english words like 'skies' -> 'sky'. Please, apply
> attached cumulative patch to  7.2.1 and current CVS instead
> previous one.
>
> Thank to Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com> for hard testing. This
> kind of bug  has significance only for dump/reload database and
> viewing, but searching/indexing works right.
>
> Teodor Sigaev
>
> 2002-03-05 00:13  tgl
>
> * src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Previous
> patch to mark UNION outputs with common typmod (if any) breaks
> three-or-more-way UNIONs, as per example from Josh Berkus.  Cause
> is a fragile assumption that one tlist's entries will exactly match
> another.  Restructure code to make that assumption a little less
> fragile.
>
> 2002-03-04 22:45  ishii
>
> * src/: backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c,
> test/regress/expected/timestamp.out,
> test/regress/expected/timestamptz.out (REL7_2_STABLE): A backport
> patch:
>
> Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/miscroseconds and
> timestamp/timestamptz combo. Now extract/date_part returns
> seconds*1000 or 1000000 + fraction part as the manual stats.
> regression test are also fixed.
>
> See the thread in pgsql-hackers:
>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] timestamp_part() bug? Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002
> 11:29:53 +0900
>
> 2002-03-04 12:47  tgl
>
> * doc/FAQ_Solaris (REL7_2_STABLE): Update FAQ_Solaris with info
> about gcc 2.95.1 problems and how to work around 64-bit vsnprintf
> bug.
>
> 2002-02-27 18:17  tgl
>
> * src/backend/tcop/postgres.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for
> errors reported at transaction end.
>
> 2002-02-26 20:47  ishii
>
> * src/backend/commands/copy.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for
> followings:
>
> Fix bug in COPY FROM when DELIMITER is not in ASCII range.  See
> pgsql-bugs/pgsql-hackers discussion "COPY FROM is not 8bit clean"
> around 2002/02/26 for more details -- Tatsuo Ishii
>
> 2002-02-26 18:48  tgl
>
> * src/: backend/commands/command.c, backend/commands/explain.c,
> backend/executor/functions.c, backend/executor/spi.c,
> backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c, backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c,
> backend/nodes/readfuncs.c, backend/parser/analyze.c,
> backend/tcop/dest.c, backend/tcop/postgres.c,
> backend/tcop/pquery.c, backend/tcop/utility.c,
> include/commands/command.h, include/nodes/parsenodes.h,
> include/tcop/dest.h, include/tcop/pquery.h, include/tcop/utility.h
> (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for command completion report
> handling.  This is primarily needed so that INSERTing a row still
> reports the row's OID even when there are ON INSERT rules firing
> additional queries.
>
> 2002-02-25 16:37  tgl
>
> * src/bin/psql/command.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Tweak psql's \connect
> command to not downcase unquoted database and user names.  This is
> a temporary measure to allow backwards compatibility with 7.2 and
> earlier pg_dump.  7.2.1 and later pg_dump will double-quote mixed
> case names in \connect.  Once we feel that older dumps are not a
> problem anymore, we can revert this change and treat \connect
> arguments as normal SQL identifiers.
>
> 2002-02-25 15:07  momjian
>
> * src/backend/libpq/auth.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Fix for PAM error
> message display:
>
> > and that the right fix is to make each of the subsequent calls be
> in
> > this same pattern, not to try to emulate their nonsensical style.
>
> Dominic J. Eidson
>
> 2002-02-25 11:22  thomas
>
> * src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Add a large
> number of time zones to the lookup table.  Fix a few
> apparently-wrong TZ vs DTZ declarations.  Same patch as added to
> HEAD.
>
> 2002-02-22 10:40  momjian
>
> * src/include/libpq/pqsignal.h (REL7_2_STABLE): We had a problem
> with to compile pgsql-7.2 under SW-8.0.  In the mailing lists I
> found no informations. See note for further informations.
>
> Add missing AuthBlockSig.
>
> regards Heiko
>
> 2002-02-22 08:02  momjian
>
> * doc/: FAQ_russian, src/FAQ/FAQ_russian.html (REL7_2_STABLE):
> BACKPATCH:
>
> Add Russian FAQ to 7.2.1.  Why not?
>
> 2002-02-22 01:08  momjian
>
> * contrib/btree_gist/btree_gist.c (REL7_2_STABLE): BACKPATCH:
>
> Please, apply attached patch of contrib/btree_gist to 7.2.1 and
> current cvs.  The patch fixes memory leak during creation GiST
> index on timestamp column.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Teodor Sigaev teodor@stack.net
>
> 2002-02-19 17:19  tgl
>
> * src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Avoid failures in
> cash_out and cash_words for INT_MIN.  Also, 'fourty' -> 'forty'.
>
> 2002-02-18 11:04  tgl
>
> * src/backend/commands/analyze.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Replace
> number-of-distinct-values estimator equation, per recent pghackers
> discussion.
>
> 2002-02-17 23:12  ishii
>
> * src/bin/pgaccess/lib/tables.tcl (REL7_2_STABLE): Fix
> kanji-coversion key binding. This has been broken since 7.1 Per
> Yoshinori Ariie's report.
>
> 2002-02-17 08:29  momjian
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: Fix SGML typo in previous
> patch.
>
> 2002-02-17 06:50  momjian
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: I think it's important that
> it's actually documented that they can add primary keys after the
> fact!
>
> Also, we need to add regression tests for alter table / add primary
> key and alter table / drop constraint. These shouldn't be added
> until 7.3 tho methinks...
>
> Chris
>
> 2002-02-16 18:45  momjian
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: Clarify params to ALTER TABLE
> to clearly show single parameters.
>
> e.g. table contraint definition -> table_constraint_definition.
>
> 2002-02-15 12:46  petere
>
> * src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l: Remove warning about automatic
> inclusion of sqlca.
>
> 2002-02-14 10:24  tgl
>
> * src/: backend/commands/command.c, backend/executor/spi.c,
> backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c, include/utils/portal.h: Ensure that
> a cursor is scanned under the same scanCommandId it was originally
> created with, so that the set of visible tuples does not change as
> a result of other activity.  This essentially makes PG cursors
> INSENSITIVE per the SQL92 definition.  See bug report of 13-Feb-02.
>
> 2002-02-13 14:32  tgl
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/createuser.sgml: Point out that --adduser
> actually makes the new user a superuser.  This was mentioned on the
> man page for the underlying CREATE USER command, but it should be
> explained here too.
>
> 2002-02-12 18:39  tgl
>
> * src/backend/port/dynloader/: README.dlfcn.aix, aix.h, bsdi.h,
> dgux.h, freebsd.h, irix5.h, linux.h, netbsd.h, openbsd.h, osf.h,
> sco.h, solaris.h, sunos4.h, svr4.h, univel.h, unixware.h, win.h:
> Use RTLD_NOW, not RTLD_LAZY, as binding mode for dlopen() on all
> platforms.  This restores the Linux behavior to what it was in PG
> 7.0 and 7.1, and causes other platforms to agree.  (Other
> well-tested platforms like HPUX were doing it this way already.)
> Per pghackers discussion over the past month or so.
>
> 2002-02-12 17:35  tgl
>
> * doc/FAQ_Solaris: Add warning not to use /usr/ucb/cc on Solaris.
>
> 2002-02-12 17:25  momjian
>
> * doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml: Fix tutorial for references problem,
> from rainer.tammer@spg.schulergroup.com
>
> 2002-02-12 16:25  tgl
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml, src/backend/commands/copy.c: Modify
> COPY TO to emit carriage returns and newlines as backslash escapes
> (backslash-r, backslash-n) for protection against
> newline-conversion munging.  In future we will also tweak COPY
> FROM, but this part of the change should be backwards-compatible.
> Per pghackers discussion.  Also, update COPY reference page to
> describe the backslash conversions more completely and accurately.
>
> 2002-02-11 18:25  momjian
>
> * doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml: Update wal files computation
> documentation.
>
> 2002-02-11 17:41  tgl
>
> * src/backend/access/gist/gist.c: Tweak GiST code to work correctly
> on machines where 8-byte alignment of pointers is required.  Patch
> from Teodor Sigaev per pghackers discussion.  It's an ugly kluge
> but avoids forcing initdb; we'll put a better fix into 7.3 or
> later.
>
> 2002-02-11 16:38  petere
>
> * src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.h: Fix for old FreeBSD
> versions that don't have RTLD_GLOBAL
>
> 2002-02-11 15:10  tgl
>
> * src/backend/executor/: nodeIndexscan.c, nodeTidscan.c: Repair
> problems with EvalPlanQual where target table is scanned as inner
> indexscan (ie, one with runtime keys). ExecIndexReScan must
> compute or recompute runtime keys even if we are rescanning in the
> EPQ case.  TidScan seems to have comparable problems.  Per bug
> noted by Barry Lind 11-Feb-02.
>
> 2002-02-11 10:19  momjian
>
> * contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade: Fix flag handling of pg_upgrade.
>
> 2002-02-10 19:18  tgl
>
> * src/bin/pg_dump/: common.c, pg_backup.h, pg_backup_archiver.c,
> pg_dump.c, pg_dump.h, pg_dumpall.sh: Be more wary about mixed-case
> database names and user names. Get the CREATE DATABASE command
> right in pg_dump -C case.
>
> 2002-02-10 19:14  tgl
>
> * doc/src/sgml/ref/: pg_dump.sgml, pg_restore.sgml: pg_dump and
> pg_restore man pages need to mention that one should restore into a
> virgin database, ie, one created from template0, if there are any
> site-local additions in template1.
>
> 2002-02-10 17:56  tgl
>
> * src/backend/storage/file/fd.c: Don't Assert() that fsync() and
> close() never fail; I have seen this crash on Solaris when over
> disk quota.  Instead, report such failures via elog(DEBUG).
>
> 2002-02-08 11:30  momjian
>
> * src/backend/utils/init/findbe.c: Move sys/types.h to top, for
> hiroyuki hanai/ FreeBSD.
>
> 2002-02-08 09:47  momjian
>
> * contrib/mysql/my2pg.pl: Upgrade my2pg version 1.23.
>
> 2002-02-07 17:20  tgl
>
> * src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c: pgstat's truncation of query
> string needs to be multibyte-aware.  Patch from sugita@sra.co.jp.
>
> 2002-02-07 17:11  tgl
>
> * contrib/: intarray/_int.c, tsearch/README.tsearch,
> tsearch/gistidx.c, tsearch/tsearch.sql.in: Repair some problems in
> GIST-index contrib modules.  Patch from Teodor Sigaev
> <teodor@stack.net>.
>
> 2002-02-06 19:27  inoue
>
> * src/backend/tcop/utility.c: Removed a check for REINDEX TABLE.
>
> 2002-02-06 15:29  petere
>
> * doc/Makefile: Fix for parallel make
>
> 2002-02-06 12:27  tgl
>
> * src/bin/pg_dump/: pg_backup_archiver.c, pg_dump.c: Fix failure to
> reconnect as sequence's owner before issuing setval().
>
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