== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 02 2013 == - Mailing list pgsql-announce

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 02 2013 ==

The CfP for Postgres Open has begun.  Presentations are due by July 1,
2013.
http://postgresopen.org/2013/speaker

== PostgreSQL Local ==

PG Day France is the major French-speaking PostgreSQL community event.
It will be held June 13, 2013 in Nantes, France.
http://pgday.fr/

We're going to have a booth at OSCON this year.  Please sign up and
hang out at the booth for an hour or two:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Oscon_2013_signup

PGDay UK 2013 is July 12, 2013.  Registration is open.
http://postgresqlusergroup.org.uk

PostgreSQL Brazil will be held August 15-17, 2013 in Porto Velho, RO,
Brazil.
http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/2013/chamada.en.php

Save The Date!
Postgres Open 2013 will be in Chicago, IL, USA, September 16-18.
    Hotel Sax:
    https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=888761&hotelID=6865
    Early Bird registration:
    http://postgresopen-eac2.eventbrite.com/

pgconf.EU 2013 will be held on Oct 29-Nov 1, 2013 at the Conrad Hotel
in downtown Dublin, Ireland.  The CfP is open.
http://2013.pgconf.eu/

PGConf.DE 2013 will be held November 8th, 2013, at the Rhineland
Industrial Museum in Oberhausen.  The CfP is open through September
15, 2013.
http://2013.pgconf.de/


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== Applied Patches ==

Stephen Frost pushed:

- Documentation fix for ALTER TYPE .. RENAME.  The documentation for
  ALTER TYPE .. RENAME claimed to support a RESTRICT/CASCADE option at
  the 'type' level, which wasn't implemented and doesn't make a whole
  lot of sense to begin with.  What is supported, and previously
  undocumented, is ALTER TYPE .. RENAME ATTRIBUTE .. RESTRICT/CASCADE.
  I've updated the documentation and back-patched this to 9.1 where it
  was first introduced.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/05624220c413eba1d7da38586dfb9aa6a8e9623d

- Post-pgindent cleanup.  Make slightly better decisions about
  indentation than what pgindent is capable of.  Mostly breaking out
  long function calls into one line per argument, with a few other
  minor adjustments.  No functional changes- all whitespace.  pgindent
  ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after.  Passes all regressions.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/551938ae2284975b53d665fa8a82a7e1f3514dda

- Minor spelling fixes.  Fix a few spelling mistakes.  Per bug report
  #8193 from Lajos Veres.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c9fc28a7f12e27d530e2657c9dc6080fbfbe8a14

Bruce Momjian pushed:

- pg_upgrade docs:  mention need to set parameters for vacuumdb.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f80e55054bb40421ee414558818cf944a6b48b7e

- pgindent run for release 9.3.  This is the first run of the
  Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update pgindent instructions.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9af4159fce6654aa0e081b00d02bca40b978745c

Robert Haas pushed:

- Document auto_explain.log_timing.  Tomas Vondra
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/07ab261ef3a9575a4a2bd3045b222d7b3dee2c46

Peter Eisentraut pushed:

- postgresql.conf.sample: Improve whitespace
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/97a11fd0e3055ab82d562930b38027b054e6c8e0

- doc: Fix claim that query is passed as ASCII text.  Ian Lawrence
  Barwick
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eff8055afb7c89c2d2629d35b074ca617a3c2310

- Remove whitespace from end of lines
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8b5a3998a104ef5918b50e207be0aa86e085d49d

- Minor spell checking
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d7eb6f46de900f6664918cda3b5e6f922a0a2356

- Add new source files to nls.mk
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/01497e738e58b0a5d87706353f28eccc5bea9591

- doc: Remove paragraph about typesetting conventions.  They no longer
  match reality with the web site style sheets, and it is difficult to
  keep the up to date in a CSS world.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dedf7e9919a2dc42370c0b218728e1556985de6a

- Fix whitespace issues in the man pages.  See
  00b0c73f1f2b98a7d09de63aaa14d6498ac521ae for an explanation.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/93874ce064836e45220978e2656cbf62eba766ed

- Another man page whitespace fix
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/22b36412c73fdae960cc6bef58eb16a26d14b700

Tom Lane pushed:

- Fix unportable usage of isspace().  Must cast char argument to
  unsigned to avoid doing the wrong thing with high-bit-set
  characters.  Oversight in commit
  30b5ede7157e34e77c7914b8ecfd55aa8da6edc3.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a149d8bd56edc2f06643118ed8aac8bce6ebad6d

- Allow type_func_name_keywords in some places where they weren't
  before.  This change makes type_func_name_keywords less reserved
  than they were before, by allowing them for role names, language
  names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and SET values for GUCs; which are
  all places where few if any actual keywords could appear instead, so
  no new ambiguities are introduced.  The main driver for this change
  is to allow "COPY ... (FORMAT BINARY)" to work without quoting the
  word "binary".  That is an inconsistency that has been complained of
  repeatedly over the years (at least by Pavel Golub, Kurt Lidl, and
  Simon Riggs); but we hadn't thought of any non-ugly solution until
  now.  Back-patch to 9.0 where the COPY (FORMAT BINARY) syntax was
  introduced.
  http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d

== Rejected Patches (for now) ==

No one was disappointed this week :-)

== Pending Patches ==

Thom Brown sent in a patch to correct a flock of typos.

Amit Kapila sent in another revision of a patch to allow
postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL.

Szymon Guz sent in a patch to fix conversion for Decimal arguments in
plpython functions.

Robert Haas sent in a patch to preserve forensic information when we
freeze.

Bruce Momjian sent in a patch to change the -u parameter for username
to the more customary (and consistent with other utilities) -U.

Cedric Villemain sent in a flock of patches intended to un-break "make
install" of certain extensions.

Joe Conway sent in three more revisions of a patch to fix cases where
dumping extensions fails.

Heikki Linnakangas sent in another revision of a patch to scale xlog
inserts.

Andres Freund sent in a patch to ensure that all_visible WAL records
operate on an intialized page.

Jeff Davis sent in another revision of a patch to eliminate
PD_ALL_VISIBLE.

Andres Freund sent in a WIP patch to add support for multiple kinds of
external toast datums.

Dean Rasheed sent in a patch to make array_remove() do the right thing
with a 0-D array.

Fabien COELHO sent in another revision of a patch to add a --progress
option to pgbench.

Fabien COELHO sent in another revision of a patch to add a --throttle
option to pgbench.

Fujii Masao sent in another revision of a patch to add pg_isready.