From ae8a2d1a3a7f4c96e51488d172c50e83af81b4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:44:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes to today.
---
doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
index b00cb16dba..8b69ae0736 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml,v 1.9 2009/06/08 14:57:21 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml,v 1.10 2009/06/11 21:44:26 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-4">
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-05-14</simpara>
+ <simpara>2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-06-11</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
@@ -922,6 +922,14 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When archiving is enabled, rotate the last WAL segment at shutdown
+ so that all transactions can be archived immediately
+ (Guillaume Smet, Heikki)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Delay <quote>smart</> shutdown while a continuous archiving base backup
@@ -1793,7 +1801,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Make parsing of <type>interval</> literals more standard-compliant (Tom)
+ Make parsing of <type>interval</> literals more standard-compliant
+ (Tom, Ron Mayer)
</para>
<para>
@@ -2049,6 +2058,13 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the second argument of <function>pg_get_expr()</> to be zero
+ when deparsing an expression that does not contain variables (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Modify <function>pg_relation_size()</> to use <literal>regclass</>
@@ -2108,11 +2124,25 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Fix the behavior of information schema columns
- <literal>is_insertable_into</> and <literal>is_updatable</> to
+ <structfield>is_insertable_into</> and <structfield>is_updatable</> to
be consistent (Peter)
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve the behavior of information schema
+ <structfield>datetime_precision</> columns (Peter)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These columns now show zero for <type>date</> columns, and 6
+ (the default precision) for <type>time</>, <type>timestamp</>, and
+ <type>interval</> without a declared precision, rather than showing
+ null as formerly.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use
@@ -3280,6 +3310,13 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enable <filename>contrib/dblink</> to use connection information
+ stored in the SQL/MED catalogs (Joe Conway)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s reporting of errors from
@@ -3287,6 +3324,18 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <filename>contrib/dblink</> set <varname>client_encoding</>
+ to match the local database's encoding (Joe Conway)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This prevents encoding problems when communicating with a remote
+ database that uses a different encoding.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Make sure <filename>contrib/dblink</> uses a password supplied