== PostgreSQL Weekly News - July 05 2009 == PostgreSQL 8.4.0 released. http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/features84.html
Round-Robin Reviewers needed ASAP! Mail robertmhaas AT gmail DOT com to volunteer. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch == PostgreSQL Product News == PostgreSQL + Replication 8.3-1.8 Beta 6, formerly known as Mammoth Replicator, released. https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/replicator pgAdmin 1.10, a GUI management tool for PostgreSQL, released. http://www.pgadmin.org/ pgloader 2.3.2, a bulk loader for PostgreSQL, released. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/ pgSphere 1.1.0, a module for working with spherical coordinates, released. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgsphere/ == PostgreSQL Jobs for July == http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2009-07/threads.php == PostgreSQL Local == pgDay San Jose is Sunday, July 19th 2009 immediately before OSCON. Sign up below: http://postgresql.meetup.com/1/calendar/10626647 OpenSQL Camp will take place August 22-23, 2009 in St. Augustin, Germany, close to Bonn and Cologne. Deadline for the CfP is July 19, 2009. Get your proposals in! http://opensqlcamp.org/Events/2009/Call_for_Participation The German PostgreSQL User Group will have a dev-room at FrOSCon on Sunday, August 23, 2009. The Call for Papers is open: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/573-Call-for-Papers-fuer-den-PostgreSQL-Devroom-auf-der-FrOSCon-2009.html The CfP for PyCon Argentina is open until June 29th, 2009 23:59 ART. The conference itself will be in Beunos Aires on September 4-5 2009. http://ar.pycon.org/2009/rfp/ Andreas (ads) Scherbaum will be teaching a "PostgreSQL for Corporate Use" course at the adult education center in Magdeburg, Germany on September 7-11, 2009. Details below: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/574-PostgreSQL-als-Bildungsurlaub.html There will be a conference in Athens, Georgia, USA on September 19, 2009. The CfP is open. http://www.postgresqlconference.org/2009/pgday/athens There will be a conference in Seattle, Washington, USA October 16-18, 2009. The CfP is open. http://www.postgresqlconference.org/2009/west PGCon Brazil will be take place October 23-24 2009 at Unicamp in Campinas, Sao Paulo state. The CfP is open! http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009/chamadas.en.php PGDay.EU 2009 will be at Telecom ParisTech in Paris, France on November 6-7, 2009. The CfP is out. Submit! http://www.pgday.eu/ JPUG 10th Anniversary Conference has started its Request for Proposals. The conference is November 20-21, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2009-05/msg00018.php == PostgreSQL in the News == Planet PostgreSQL: http://planet.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter, Josh Berkus, and Devrim GUNDUZ. Submit news and announcements by Sunday at 3:00pm Pacific time. Please send English language ones to da...@fetter.org, German language to p...@pgug.de, Italian language to p...@itpug.org. == Applied Patches == Tom Lane committed: - In pgsql/src/include/Makefile, add missed src/include/foreign subdirectory to the set installed into INSTALLDIR/include/server/. Itagaki Takahiro - Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel. - Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description. Per Shigehiro Honda. - In pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c, fix up pg_dump's --binary-upgrade option so that it behaves properly with inherited columns and check constraints. Per my recent trouble report. - Fix handling of changed-Param signaling for CteScan plan nodes. We were using the "cteParam" as a proxy for the possibility that the underlying CTE plan depends on outer-level variables or Params, but that doesn't work very well because it sometimes causes calling subqueries to be treated as SubPlans when they could be InitPlans. This is inefficient and also causes the outright failure exhibited in bug #4902. Instead, leave the cteParam out of it and copy the underlying CTE plan's extParams directly. Per bug #4902 from Marko (johto) Tiikkaja. - In pgsql/src/backend/parser/gram.y, per SQL spec (in particular, the grammar in SQL:2008 7.13) we should allow parentheses around the <query expression body> that follows a WITH clause, eg with cte(foo) as ( values(0) ) ((select foo from cte)); This seems to be just an oversight/thinko in gram.y. Noted while experimenting with bug #4902. Peter Eisentraut committed: - Regression test for XML mapping functionality. I wrote this one while chasing down some bugs in the closing days of 8.4. It could be useful in the long run. This area of the code had no test coverage at all before. - Upgrade to Autoconf 2.63. This upgrades the configure infrastructure to the latest Autoconf version. Some notable news are: the workaround for the broken fseeko() test is gone, checking for unknown options is now provided by Autoconf itself, and fixes for Mac OS X. - In pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c, have \d show child tables that inherit from the specified parent. As per discussion, \d shows only the number of child tables, because that could be hundreds, when used for partitioning. \d+ shows the actual list. Damien Clochard - Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state. Guillaume Smet == Rejected Patches (for now) == No one was disappointed this week :-) == Pending Patches == Lars Kanis sent in a patch to extend user mappings in pg_ident.conf. Robert Haas sent in another revision of his generated header file handling patch. Jeremy Kerr sent in three revisions of a patch to avoid manual shift-and-test logic in AllocSetFreeIndex. Robert Haas sent in a patch to autogenerate headers and bki. KaiGai Kohei sent in another revision of his SE-PostgreSQL patches. Hans-Juergen Schoenig sent in a patch to transform a tsvector to table format. Petr (PJMODOS) Jelinek sent in another revision of his GRANT ON ALL IN SCHEMA patch. Fujii Masao sent in a patch to provide support for multiplexing the SIGUSR1 signal. Fujii Masao sent in a patch to provide support for non-blocking communication between a frontend and a backend. Zoltan Boszormenyi sent in two revisions of a patch to add a "string" pseudo-type to ECPG. Gregory Stark sent in a WIP patch to add a Merge Append node, part of querying partitioned tables more efficiently. Jeff Davis sent in a WIP patch to allow generalized UNIQUE constraints such as "doesn't overlap." Dimitri Fontaine sent in a patch to allow people to run process_local_preload_libraries from within a transaction. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- -To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to: pgsql-announce-unsubscr...@postgresql.org
