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Second draft of back-branch release notes.

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Add items for the weekend's commits.  Add corrections from
Peter Geoghegan, Amit Kapila, and Alexander Kuzmenkov.
Some copy-editing of my own too.
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@ -147,10 +147,12 @@ Branch: REL_11_STABLE [1ad521099] 2019-01-24 14:09:56 -0300
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Branch: master [0464fdf07] 2019-01-21 20:08:52 -0300
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [123cc697a] 2019-01-21 19:59:07 -0300
Branch: master [cb90de1aa] 2019-02-10 10:00:11 -0300
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [cc126b45e] 2019-02-10 10:00:11 -0300
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<para>
Create or delete foreign key enforcement triggers correctly when
attaching or detaching a partition in a a partitioned table that
attaching or detaching a partition in a partitioned table that
has a foreign-key constraint (Amit Langote, &Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -241,12 +243,13 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [85efd1a04] 2018-11-19 11:16:28 -0300
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Branch: master [171e0418b] 2019-02-06 01:09:32 -0800
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [297d627e0] 2019-02-06 01:09:42 -0800
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [920311ab1] 2019-02-09 02:44:10 -0800
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<para>
Fix possible index corruption when the indexed column has
a <quote>fast default</quote> (that is, it was added
by <literal>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</literal> with a constant
default value specified, after the table already contained rows)
by <literal>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</literal> with a constant non-NULL
default value specified, after the table already contained some rows)
(Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -291,7 +294,15 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [2e3bd064e] 2018-12-13 06:22:39 +0300
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<para>
Avoid deadlock between GIN vacuuming and concurrent index insertions
(Alexander Korotkov, Andrey Borodin and Peter Geoghegan)
(Alexander Korotkov, Andrey Borodin, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
<para>
This change partially reverts a performance improvement, introduced
in version 10.0, that attempted to reduce the number of index pages
locked during deletion of a GIN posting tree page. That's now been
found to lead to deadlocks, so we've removed it pending closer
analysis.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -371,8 +382,8 @@ Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [90f1ba7ec] 2019-02-01 10:35:58 +0900
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [05d24cf7c] 2019-02-01 10:36:02 +0900
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<para>
Avoid possibly including garbage in the replica identity field of a
tuple deletion WAL record (Stas Kelvish)
Avoid possibly writing an incorrect replica identity field in a
tuple deletion WAL record (Stas Kelvich)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -464,6 +475,24 @@ Branch: REL_11_STABLE [aee085bc0] 2018-11-27 10:07:43 -0800
<listitem>
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Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Branch: master [5567d12ce] 2019-02-09 01:05:49 -0800
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [9cf37a527] 2019-02-09 01:05:50 -0800
Branch: master [3b632a58e] 2019-02-09 01:05:49 -0800
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [350b0a403] 2019-02-09 01:05:50 -0800
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<para>
Fix performance and memory leakage issues in hash-based grouping
(Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Andrew Gierth <rhodiumtoad@postgresql.org>
Branch: master [d16d45387] 2019-01-17 06:46:10 +0000
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [e74d8c508] 2019-01-17 06:24:53 +0000
@ -599,7 +628,7 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2abc87953] 2018-11-12 11:19:04 -0500
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<para>
Avoid O(N^2) planning time growth when a query contains many
thousands of indexable clauses (Tom Lane)
thousand indexable clauses (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -657,7 +686,7 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [1d7007671] 2018-12-27 10:17:42 +0900
<para>
This brings <command>TRUNCATE</command> into line with the behavior
of other commands.
of other commands. Previously, such cases usually ended in failure.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -893,9 +922,8 @@ Branch: REL_11_STABLE [6b6c64a96] 2018-11-13 17:47:00 +1300
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<para>
Fix parsing of space-separated lists of host names in
the <varname>ldapserver</varname> parameter
of <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> LDAP authentication entries
(Thomas Munro)
the <varname>ldapserver</varname> parameter of LDAP authentication
entries in <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> (Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -909,7 +937,7 @@ Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [63d835066] 2018-11-28 14:20:07 +1300
-->
<para>
When making a PAM authentication request, don't set
the <varname>PAM_RHOST</varname> variable if the connection is over
the <varname>PAM_RHOST</varname> variable if the connection is via
a Unix socket (Thomas Munro)
</para>
@ -942,7 +970,7 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2407d4807] 2018-11-08 17:33:26 -0500
in the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> wire protocol
specification, and it caused some clients to become very confused.
In released branches, fix this by silently treating such settings as
meaning <literal>ERROR</literal> instead. Release 12 and later will
meaning <literal>ERROR</literal> instead. Version 12 and later will
reject those alternatives altogether.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -1045,8 +1073,8 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [74bfb5388] 2018-11-26 17:32:51 -0500
<para>
Backslash and some other ASCII punctuation characters were not
rendered correctly, leading to document syntax errors or unexpected
output.
rendered correctly, leading to document syntax errors or wrong
characters in the output.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -1146,6 +1174,24 @@ Branch: REL_11_STABLE [b72b4fafb] 2018-11-13 09:41:34 +0100
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Branch: master [4dbe19690] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [ef9bf3593] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
Branch: REL_10_STABLE [73668c590] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [2b6009e2a] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [2c8332177] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [ed46d0d32] 2019-02-09 19:45:38 -0500
-->
<para>
Avoid null-pointer-dereference crash on some platforms
when <application>pg_dump</application>
or <application>pg_restore</application> tries to report an error
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Branch: master [eba775345] 2019-02-06 15:54:19 -0800
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [2f5416666] 2019-02-06 15:54:17 -0800
@ -1171,7 +1217,7 @@ Branch: REL_11_STABLE [b1894a607] 2018-12-16 14:32:14 -0500
Branch: REL_10_STABLE [34010ac2f] 2018-12-16 14:32:14 -0500
-->
<para>
Properly disregard <literal>EPIPE</literal> errors if <command>COPY
Properly disregard <literal>SIGPIPE</literal> errors if <command>COPY
FROM PROGRAM</command> stops reading the program's output early
(Tom Lane)
</para>
@ -1203,8 +1249,10 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [e5a6ae97e] 2018-11-24 21:17:09 +0000
The previous coding did not give the same result as for an
empty <type>hstore</type> value created by a newer version, thus
potentially causing wrong results in hash joins or hash
aggregation. It might be advisable to reindex any hash indexes
built on <type>hstore</type> columns.
aggregation. It is advisable to reindex any hash indexes
built on <type>hstore</type> columns, if the table might contain
data that was originally stored as far back as 8.4 and was never
dumped/reloaded since then.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -1325,8 +1373,8 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [51884fa16] 2019-02-05 10:06:12 -0500
-->
<para>
Fix Perl-coded build scripts to not
assume <quote><literal>.</literal></quote> is in the search path, as
recent Perl versions don't include that (Andrew Dunstan)
assume <quote><literal>.</literal></quote> is in the search path,
since recent Perl versions don't include that (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Branch: master [640158386] 2019-02-09 11:41:09 -0500
Branch: REL_11_STABLE [027b5a300] 2019-02-09 11:41:09 -0500
Branch: REL_10_STABLE [dc0eb137f] 2019-02-09 11:41:09 -0500
Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [6257f525a] 2019-02-09 11:41:09 -0500
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<para>
Relocate call of <literal>set_rel_pathlist_hook</literal> so that
extensions can use it to supply partial paths for parallel queries
(KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
This is not expected to affect existing use-cases.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
NOTE this is already in 11.1 notes, but not 10.x !!!!
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Branch: master [003c68a3b] 2018-11-06 13:25:24 -0500