next distribution. This patch brings it up to date now. Major fixes:
- Support for more types. This fixes a bug introduced in the current
PostgreSQL because of the different way of handling agregates.
- Add WIN32 support
- Fix some DB-API quoting problems
Relevant changes from version 7.1.2 include:
Remove unused WAL segements of large transactions
Multiaction rule fix
Pl/pgSQL memory allocation fix
VACUUM buffer fix
pg_dump fixes for GRANT/REVOKE/comments on views, user-defined types
Fix subselects with DISTINCT ON or LIMIT
Disable COPY TO/FROM a view
problems early on if insufficient libraries are specified during linking.
Move the configure script patch to the last patch of the group so that
the configure script will have the most recent timestamp.
CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS by the buildlink.mk files so remove the extra
definitions to add them from the package Makefiles. As advised by the
bsd.buildlink.mk file, also ensure that the buildlink.mk files are
included prior to defining any package-specific CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to ensure
that the buildlink directories are at the head of the compiler search
paths.
postgresql sources:
postgresql-client, postgresql-docs, postgresql-lib, postgresql-server,
postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl,
odbc-postgresql, py-postgresql, tcl-postgresql, tk-postgresql
to 7.1.2 or to depend on postgresql-libs-7.1.2. Changes from version 7.1.1:
Fix PL/PgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows
Fix for psql backslash core dump
Referential integrity permission fix
Optimizer fixes
pg_dump cleanups
Use BUILDLINK_INCDIR, BUILDLINK_LIBDIR for locations of linked headers
and libraries. Create a variable BUILDLINK_TARGETS whose value is the
list of build-link targets to execute.
postgresql-lib
postgresql-client
postgresql-server
postgresql-doc
with postgresql as a meta-package. Major changes from version 7.1.1
include:
Write-ahead Log (WAL) - To maintain database consistency in
case of an operating system crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL
have forced all data modifications to disk before each transaction
commit. With WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly
improving performance. If you have been using -F in previous releases
to disable disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its
use.
TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
typically 8 - 32 kB. This limit made storage of long text fields
difficult. With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored with
good performance.
Outer Joins - We now support outer joins. The UNION/NOT IN
workaround for outer joins is no longer required. We use the SQL92
outer join syntax.
Function Manager - The previous C function manager did not
handle NULLs properly, nor did it support 64-bit CPU's (Alpha). The
new function manager does. You can continue using your old custom
functions, but you may want to rewrite them in the future to use the
new function manager call interface.
Complex Queries - A large number of complex queries that were
unsupported in previous releases now work. Many combinations of
views, aggregates, UNION, LIMIT, cursors, subqueries, and inherited
tables now work properly. Inherited tables are now accessed by
default. Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
Migration to 7.1.1
A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
data from any previous release.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
Convert most MESSAGE files to new syntax (${VARIABLE} gets replaced,
not @VARIABLE@, nor @@VARIABLE@@).
By default, substitutions are done for LOCALBASE, PKGNAME, PREFIX,
X11BASE, X11PREFIX; additional patterns can be added via MESSAGE_SUBST.
Clean up some packages while I'm there; add RCS tags to most MESSAGEs.
Remove some uninteresting MESSAGEs.
out of date - it was based on a.out OBJECT_FMT, and added entries in the
generated PLISTs to reflect the symlinks that ELF packages uses. It also
tried to be clever, and removed and recreated any symbolic links that were
created, which has resulted in some fun, especially with packages which
use dlopen(3) to load modules. Some recent changes to our ld.so to bring
it more into line with other Operating Systems also exposed some cracks.
+ Modify bsd.pkg.mk and its shared object handling, so that PLISTs now contain
the ELF symlinks.
+ Don't mess about with file system entries when handling shared objects in
bsd.pkg.mk, since it's likely that libtool and the BSD *.mk processing will
have got it right, and have a much better idea than we do.
+ Modify PLISTs to contain "ELF symlinks"
+ On a.out platforms, delete any "ELF symlinks" from the generated PLISTs
+ On ELF platforms, no extra processing needs to be done in bsd.pkg.mk
+ Modify print-PLIST target in bsd.pkg.mk to add dummy symlink entries on
a.out platforms
+ Update the documentation in Packages.txt
With many thanks to Thomas Klausner for keeping me honest with this.
Jdbc fixes (Peter)
Large object fix (Tom)
Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)
Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
Fix for psql \l+ when multi-byte enabled (Tatsuo)
Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
Fix for memory aloocation problem in user authentication code (Tom)
Remove bogus use of int4out() (Tom)
Fixes for multiple subqueries in COALESCE or BETWEEN (Tom)
Fix for failure of triggers on heap open in certain cases (Jeroen van Vianen)
Fix for erroneous selectivity of not-equals (Tom)
Fix for erroneous use of strcmp() (Tom)
Fix for bug where storage manager accesses items beyond end of file (Tom)
Fix to include kernel errno message in all smgr elog messages (Tom)
Fix for '.' not in PATH at build time (SL Baur)
Fix for out-of-file-descriptors error (Tom)
Fix to make pg_dump dump 'iscachable' flag for functions (Tom)
Fix for subselect in targetlist of Append node (Tom)
Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and destination of a tuple lie on the same page (Tom)
Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
Buffer fix (Tom)
Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data types (Tatsuo)
Fix for crash of backend, on abort (Tom)
* Enhance rc.d/pgsql.sh script to accept start/stop/restart.
* Add fixes for alpha from Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> in PR#10543.
XXX Includes a patch which removes inlining of the alpha's TAS function.
XXX This is apparently some code-gen bug in GCC for alpha.
* Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
* Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
* Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
* New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
* Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
* jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
* optimizer tunings (Tom)
* Fix create user for pgaccess
* Fix for UNLISTEN failure
* Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
* Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
* Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
* Fix small memory leak (Tom)
* Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb (Tatsuo)
* Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
* Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
* Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
* Add SJIS UDC (NEC selection IBM kanji) support (Eiji Tokuya)
* Fix too long syslog message (Tatsuo)
* Fix problem with quoted indexes that are too long (Tom)
* JDBC ResultSet.getTimestamp() fix (Gregory Krasnow & Floyd Marinescu)
* ecpg changes (Michael)
