postgresql/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-7.1-7.1.1

2001-05-04 22:57  momjian

	* HISTORY, register.txt, doc/src/sgml/release.sgml: UPdate for
	release tomorrow.

2001-05-04 19:11  tgl

	* doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml: COMMIT_DELAY and COMMIT_SIBLINGS were
	missing from the list of WAL configuration parameters in chapter 3.

2001-05-04 18:01  tgl

	* src/backend/parser/Makefile: Makefile should have automatic
	dependency for parser.o too, if it's going to have any at all.

2001-05-04 14:39  tgl

	* src/backend/access/transam/xact.c: Seems like we should not hold
	off cancel/die interrupts while we are running deferred triggers. 
	They are really part of the regular transaction, and they could
	take awhile.

2001-05-03 22:54  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml: Add missing tag.

2001-05-03 18:53  tgl

	* src/: backend/utils/adt/datetime.c,
	backend/utils/adt/formatting.c, backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c,
	include/utils/datetime.h: Consolidate several near-identical uses
	of mktime() into a single routine DetermineLocalTimeZone().  In
	that routine, be more wary of broken mktime() implementations than
	the original code was: don't allow mktime to change the already-set
	y/m/d/h/m/s information, and don't use tm_gmtoff if mktime failed. 
	Possibly this will resolve some of the complaints we've been
	hearing from users of Middle Eastern timezones on RedHat.

2001-05-03 17:38  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,
	src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/KOI8_to_utf8.map,
	src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_KOI8.map,
	src/include/mb/pg_wchar.h, src/interfaces/odbc/multibyte.h: BTW it
	does not add encodign it just patches existing one (KOI8) to
	support two - KOI8-R and KOI8-U (latter is superset of the former
	if not to take to the account pseudographics)
	
	Andy Rysin

2001-05-03 17:16  tgl

	* src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c: Permission checking wasn't
	quite right for insert/update/delete rules, either :-(.

2001-05-03 16:39  momjian

	* HISTORY, doc/src/sgml/release.sgml: pg_dump can dump 7.0
	databases.

2001-05-03 15:20  momjian

	* src/test/locale/test-ctype.c: apply a little patch:
	
	Oleg Bartunov

2001-05-03 15:00  tgl

	* src/: backend/access/nbtree/nbtcompare.c,
	backend/utils/adt/date.c, backend/utils/adt/float.c,
	backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c, backend/utils/adt/numeric.c,
	backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c, backend/utils/adt/varbit.c,
	backend/utils/adt/varchar.c, backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,
	include/utils/nabstime.h,
	test/regress/expected/abstime-solaris-1947.out,
	test/regress/expected/abstime.out,
	test/regress/expected/timestamp.out: Ensure that btree sort
	ordering functions and boolean comparison operators give consistent
	results for all datatypes.  Types float4, float8, and numeric were
	broken for NaN values; abstime, timestamp, and interval were broken
	for INVALID values; timetz was just plain broken (some possible
	pairs of values were neither < nor = nor >).  Also clean up text,
	bpchar, varchar, and bit/varbit to eliminate duplicate code and
	thereby reduce the probability of similar inconsistencies arising
	in the future.

2001-05-03 13:50  tgl

	* doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml: Describe handling of
	multiply-inherited fields correctly.

2001-05-03 13:47  tgl

	* src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c: Permissions were not
	checked correctly when one view invokes another.  Per bug report
	from Lieven Van Acker, 5/2/01.

2001-05-03 13:28  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml: Update shared memory docs.

2001-05-03 13:20  momjian

	* src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES: Improve list.

2001-05-03 13:17  momjian

	* HISTORY, doc/src/sgml/release.sgml: Final stamp for 7.1.1.  All
	done.

2001-05-03 12:47  momjian

	* src/: include/config.h.win32, interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc,
	tools/RELEASE_CHANGES: Updates for 7.1.1.  Not done yet.

2001-05-03 12:43  momjian

	* configure: autoconf

2001-05-03 12:26  momjian

	* HISTORY, README, configure.in, register.txt, doc/bug.template,
	doc/src/sgml/release.sgml: Some updates for 7.1.1.

2001-05-03 12:18  tgl

	* src/include/catalog/pg_type.h: Correct pg_description entry for
	type macaddr.

2001-05-03 12:07  tgl

	* src/: interfaces/ecpg/include/sqlca.h,
	interfaces/ecpg/test/Makefile, makefiles/Makefile.win: Fixes to
	make ecpg work on Cygwin, from Jason Tishler
	<Jason.Tishler@dothill.com>.

2001-05-03 08:32  darcy

	* contrib/chkpass/: Makefile, README.chkpass, chkpass.c,
	chkpass.sql: Initial checkin of a contributed type that handles
	passwords efficiently.

2001-05-02 16:35  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_aggregate.sgml: In the outputs section the
	NOTICE reads: aggregate 'agg' for 'type' does not exist.
	
	Mismatch with synopsis, agg must be name here.
	
	Frank Wegmann

2001-05-02 13:04  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml: Added mention of SHMALL and removed
	BSD/OS-specific table.

2001-05-02 10:46  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/ref/createuser.sgml: description of the command line
	option echo should read:
	
	Echo the queries that createuser generates and sends to the
	backend.			^^^^^^^^^^
	
	Frank Wegmann

2001-05-02 10:23  tgl

	* src/interfaces/odbc/win32.mak: Previous commit mistakenly
	converted all newlines to DOS style (CR/LF).  Convert back to Unix
	style --- it seems some versions of nmake insist on this.

2001-05-02 07:21  darcy

	* src/interfaces/python/README: Add note explaining why inserts
	take longer as tables grow.  Also suggest the way to handle this.

2001-05-02 07:17  darcy

	* src/interfaces/python/pgmodule.c: Change "|zzlzzzz" argument
	specification to "|zzizzzz" so that the code works properly on 64
	bit systems.
	
	Change submitted by Marc Poinot (Marc.Poinot@onera.fr)

2001-05-01 06:50  petere

	* doc/src/sgml/version.sgml: Bump version to 7.1.1.  Now run over
	to hub to rebuild documentation before release...

2001-05-01 06:48  petere

	* doc/src/sgml/: libpq++.sgml, libpq.sgml: More markup fixes

2001-04-30 23:00  tgl

	* doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml: Fix slightly confused description of
	debug options.

2001-04-30 22:33  tgl

	* src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y: Synced gram.y and
	preproc.y.

2001-04-30 21:36  thomas

	* src/backend/parser/gram.y: Allow a string argument to the
	EXTRACT() function.   This is an extension to the SQL9x standard,
	but is consistant with usage   of the underlying date_part()
	function used to implement it.	 Example: EXTRACT('YEAR',...)  No
	impact on regression tests.

2001-04-30 20:47  inoue

	* src/interfaces/odbc/: parse.c, psqlodbc.h, psqlodbc.rc,
	qresult.c: 1) fix bugs reported by Andrea Aime.  2) fix a bug
	reported by Jan Wieck.	psqlodbc is 7.01.0005 now.

2001-04-30 19:55  tgl

	* doc/FAQ_HPUX: Update FAQ_HPUX now that we have reports of
	out-of-the-box build on HPUX 11.

2001-04-30 18:22  tgl

	* doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml: Document pltcl's return_null command.

2001-04-30 18:21  tgl

	* doc/src/sgml/: libpq++.sgml, libpq.sgml: Repair freshly-broken
	markup.

2001-04-30 16:05  tgl

	* src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c: exec_move_row() should be more
	forgiving of tuples with a different number of columns than it was
	expecting, for reasons that are now documented in the code...

2001-04-30 15:24  tgl

	* src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c: Suppress pull-up of
	subqueries that are in the nullable side of an outer join.  This is
	needed to avoid improper evaluation of expressions that should be
	nulled out, as in Victor Wagner's bug report of 4/27/01.  Pretty
	ugly solution, but no time to do anything better for 7.1.1.

2001-04-30 13:38  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/: libpq++.sgml, libpq.sgml: Break up PQexec() result
	functions into subsections to be clearer.  Both libpq and libpq++
	reorganized.

2001-04-30 00:26  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/: libpgtcl.sgml, libpq++.sgml: Add mention of
	libpgtcl's options to manual, libpq++ markup fixes.

2001-04-29 03:27  ishii

	* src/backend/utils/mb/: conv.c, Unicode/ALT_to_utf8.map,
	Unicode/KOI8_to_utf8.map, Unicode/Makefile,
	Unicode/UCS_to_cyrillic.pl, Unicode/WIN_to_utf8.map,
	Unicode/utf8_to_ALT.map, Unicode/utf8_to_KOI8.map,
	Unicode/utf8_to_WIN.map: Add missing Unicode support for Cyrillic
	encodings.  Patches contributed by Victor Wagner.

2001-04-28 09:59  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/ref/: create_function.sgml, drop_function.sgml: In
	create_function there is a remark concerning SQL/PSM not being
	ratified as yet. This is certainly no longer true, it wasn't even
	true in Q2/1998 when I did a little research for Date's book. 
	SQL/PSM had been published on 1996-12-15 as ISO/IEC 9075:4. So you
	might want to update that section.
	
	Frank Wegmann

2001-04-26 21:31  momjian

	* doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml: A small patch for a small
	option (for rel. 7.1).
	
	Jimmy Olgeni

2001-04-26 20:55  momjian

	* doc/: FAQ, src/FAQ/FAQ.html: Update FAQ.

2001-04-26 20:21  momjian

	* doc/: FAQ, src/FAQ/FAQ.html, FAQ, src/FAQ/FAQ.html: Update FAQ.

2001-04-26 17:52  tgl

	* src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c: Remove bogus Assert from
	AbsoluteTimeIsBefore().  (If you don't think it's bogus, try
	building a btree index on the regress tests' abstime_tbl.)

2001-04-25 18:04  tgl

	* src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c: Tweak nestloop costing to
	weight restart cost of inner path more heavily.  Without this, it
	was making some pretty silly decisions about whether an expensive
	sub-SELECT should be the inner or outer side of a join...

2001-04-25 03:03  pjw

	* src/bin/pg_dump/: pg_backup.h, pg_backup_archiver.c,
	pg_backup_archiver.h, pg_backup_custom.c, pg_backup_db.c,
	pg_backup_tar.c, pg_dump.c, pg_dump.h: - Fixed CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
	dump to record tgconstrelid properly - pgsql v7.0 compatbility

2001-04-24 16:05  petere

	* doc/FAQ_MSWIN: typological errors

2001-04-23 20:08  tgl

	* src/include/nodes/nodes.h: Undo pgindent brain damage, so that
	node type numbers can once again be counted off by lines ...

2001-04-23 19:36  tgl

	* src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c: Behave sanely when database name is
	omitted from command line.

2001-04-23 16:27  petere

	* src/backend/Makefile: Send 'cd' output to /dev/null.

2001-04-23 11:14  tgl

	* configure, configure.in: Defend against ancient versions of zlib
	by checking that zlib.h defines z_streamp.

2001-04-23 00:32  tgl

	* src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c: compatible_oper needs to do
	ReleaseSysCache in one path to avoid complaints about 'Cache
	reference leak'.  Per report from Don Baccus.

2001-04-22 21:41  inoue

	* src/interfaces/odbc/: columninfo.c, connection.c, convert.c,
	execute.c, qresult.c: 1) Decrease the size of needlessly large
	buffers. For example, it    resolved the stack over flow errors
	reported by Johann Zuschlag.  2) Support {oj syntax for 71.
	servers.

2001-04-22 21:00  inoue

	* src/interfaces/odbc/: bind.c, convert.c, execute.c, pgtypes.c,
	pgtypes.h, statement.c, statement.h: A patch to fix the following
	bugs.  1) [ODBC] Psqlodbc and Centura: here it is a patch	 
	posted by Matteo Cavalleli 2) [ODBC] pgsqODBC binding parameters II
		posted by Ludek Finstrle 3) Invalid Page Fault in
	PSQLODBC.DLL	     personal mail from Johann Zuschlag
	
	   Hiroki Kataoka   kataoka@interwiz.koganei.tokyo.jp

2001-04-22 17:34  tgl

	* src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c: Don't bomb out on indexes on system
	attributes other than 'oid'.  (Not sure such an index is actually
	useful, but just because it's useless doesn't mean pg_dump should
	coredump.)

2001-04-21 14:29  tgl

	* src/backend/: main/main.c, utils/init/findbe.c,
	utils/init/postinit.c: Remove useless setuid() call, instead add a
	check that real and effective userids are the same.  Per today's
	pghackers discussion.

2001-04-21 07:23  petere

	* src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh: Make sure that the postmaster options
	(from postmaster.opts[.default] or -o option) are properly
	dequoted.  Also, always pass an explicit -D option to postmaster,
	don't rely on it being set in postmaster.opts.

2001-04-20 11:52  thomas

	* doc/src/sgml/: Makefile, biblio.sgml, catalogs.sgml,
	charset.sgml, docguide.sgml, func.sgml, geqo.sgml, libpgeasy.sgml,
	mvcc.sgml, user-manag.sgml: Final markup for 7.1 hardcopy release.
	Mostly typo and table-fitting  adjustments. Note that many tables
	are being abused with *really* long  description columns. Should
	probably shrink those columns to be more  concise, and move some of
	the info to follow-on reference notes.

2001-04-20 11:50  thomas

	* doc/src/sgml/fixrtf: Add option --refentry to change \keepn (keep
	with next paragraph) to  \keep (keep current paragraph together).
	This fixes most troubles with  reference pages marked up with
	<refentry> tags.  Use on reference.rtf, generated by "make
	reference.rtf".

2001-04-19 16:27  petere

	* configure, configure.in: Remove libsfio check.

2001-04-19 15:17  petere

	* contrib/start-scripts/: freebsd, linux: Pass -D option to pg_ctl
	because export PGDATA won't be preserved across 'su -l'.
	
	Reported by <VASQUEZ_JASON@LILLY.COM>.

2001-04-19 15:09  petere

	* src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c: Add extern int optreset
	declaration, per bug report from <info@decc.nl>.

2001-04-19 15:01  petere

	* src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c: Fix "off by VARHDRSZ" bug in
	(Cyrillic) recode support.

2001-04-19 00:29  tgl

	* src/backend/executor/execQual.c: Kluge solution for Alex
	Pilosov's report of problems with whole-tuple function arguments in
	join queries: copy the tuples into TransactionCommandContext so
	they don't get recycled too soon.  This is horrid, but not any
	worse than 7.0 or before, which also leaked such tuples until end
	of query.  A proper fix will require allowing tuple datums to be
	physically stored inside larger tuple datums, which opens up a
	bunch of issues that can't realistically be solved for 7.1.1.

2001-04-18 22:34  ishii

	* src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c: Add a crash gurard to
	pg_encoding_mblen in case of an invalid encoding given.

2001-04-18 18:25  tgl

	* src/backend/parser/parse_func.c: Further tweaking of error
	messages for cases involving attributes & functions of join or
	subselect aliases.  It'd be awfully nice if this code knew for sure
	whether it was dealing with 'x.f' or 'f(x)' syntax; maybe we can
	fix that in a future cycle.

2001-04-18 16:53  petere

	* src/bin/psql/command.c: Repair misbehavior of \! with immediately
	following argument that contains spaces (e.g., '\!ls -l').  Also
	correct a comment.

2001-04-18 16:42  tgl

	* src/: backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,
	backend/optimizer/util/var.c, backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c,
	include/optimizer/var.h, pl/plpgsql/src/gram.y,
	pl/plpgsql/src/pl_comp.c, pl/plpgsql/src/scan.l: Make the world
	safe for passing whole rows of views to functions.  This already
	worked fine for whole rows of tables, but not so well for views...

2001-04-18 13:04  tgl

	* src/backend/: parser/parse_relation.c, utils/adt/ruleutils.c:
	Make rule lister do the right thing with Vars representing whole
	tuples.

2001-04-17 03:30  inoue

	* src/interfaces/odbc/readme.txt: The renewal of README thanks to
	Dave Page.

2001-04-16 20:32  tgl

	* src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c: Add some defenses to guard
	against case where a rule refers to a table or view that's been
	dropped and then recreated with the same name (but, perhaps,
	different columns).  Eventually we'd like to support this but for
	now all we can do is fail cleanly, rather than possibly coredumping
	if we proceed using the obsolete rule.

2001-04-16 15:44  tgl

	* src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c: Avoid reversing
	user-given order of WHERE clauses while attaching clauses to
	specific base or join RelOptInfo nodes during planning.  This
	preserves the more-intuitive behavior of 7.0.* --- if you write an
	expensive clause (such as a sub-select) last, it should get
	evaluated last.  Someday we ought to try to have some intelligence
	about the order of evaluation of WHERE clauses, but for now we
	should not override what the user wrote.

2001-04-16 02:10  ishii

	* src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/: UCS_to_BIG5.pl, UCS_to_EUC_CN.pl,
	UCS_to_EUC_JP.pl, UCS_to_EUC_KR.pl, UCS_to_EUC_TW.pl,
	UCS_to_SJIS.pl, big5_to_utf8.map, euc_cn_to_utf8.map,
	euc_jp_to_utf8.map, euc_kr_to_utf8.map, euc_tw_to_utf8.map,
	sjis_to_utf8.map, utf8_to_big5.map, utf8_to_euc_cn.map,
	utf8_to_euc_jp.map, utf8_to_euc_kr.map, utf8_to_euc_tw.map,
	utf8_to_sjis.map: Correction for mathematical properties in Unicode
	converison maps.  Patches contributed by Eiji Tokuya
	(e-tokuya@sankyo-unyu.co.jp)

2001-04-16 00:20  momjian

	* doc/: FAQ_japanese, src/FAQ/FAQ_japanese.html: Update Japanese
	FAQ's.

2001-04-15 22:42  tgl

	* src/backend/utils/: init/miscinit.c, mb/common.c, mb/mbutils.c:
	getdatabaseencoding() and PG_encoding_to_char() were being sloppy
	about converting char* strings to type 'name'.	Imagine my surprise
	when 7.1 release coredumped upon start when compiled
	--enable-multibyte ...

2001-04-15 21:46  tgl

	* src/backend/libpq/pqformat.c: Remove error report from
	pq_endmessage when pq_putmessage fails.  The only possible failure
	is in pq_flush, which will log a (better!) report anyway --- so
	pq_endmessage is just cluttering the log with a redundant entry. 
	This matters when a client crashes partway through a large query,
	since we will emit many broken-pipe reports before finishing the
	query and exiting.

2001-04-14 23:25  tgl

	* src/Makefile.shlib: Add LDFLAGS_SL to AIX shlib building command,
	per report from Rocco Altier <roccoa@routescape.com>.

2001-04-14 23:14  tgl

	* src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c: Constant expressions that
	appear in ORDER BY, GROUP BY, DISTINCT ON lists should be
	reverse-compiled into targetlist index numbers, because that's the
	only interpretation the parser allows for a constant in these
	clauses.  (Ergo, the only way they could have gotten into the list
	in the first place is to have come from the targetlist; so this
	should always work.)  Per problem report from Peter E.

2001-04-14 20:48  tgl

	* src/backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c: Prevent generation of
	invalid plans for RIGHT or FULL joins with multiple join clauses. 
	The mergejoin executor wants all the join clauses to appear as
	merge quals, not as extra joinquals, for these kinds of joins.	But
	the planner would consider plans in which partially-sorted input
	paths were used, leading to only some of the join clauses becoming
	merge quals.  This is fine for inner/left joins, not fine for
	right/full joins.

2001-04-14 20:43  petere

	* src/bin/psql/common.c: If the password prompt goes to stderr,
	then the trailing newline should also go there.

2001-04-14 18:55  petere

	* configure, configure.in, src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c,
	src/include/config.h.in: Work with Readline 4.2.

2001-04-14 15:11  momjian

	* src/backend/tcop/postgres.c: Add debug_query_string global
	variable for pgmonitor and debugging use.

2001-04-14 09:11  pjw

	* src/bin/pg_dump/: pg_backup_archiver.c, pg_backup_archiver.h,
	pg_backup_tar.c, pg_dump.c, pg_dump.h: - Get view OID based on rule
	OID not base table OID - Fix crash due to null string pointer in
	some tar files with some libs

2001-04-13 22:10  tgl

	* src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c: Another try at making numeric
	MODULO operator produce the right answer.  Although it was now
	using the right equation, it was making bogus choices of the
	precision to compute intermediate results to.  I'm not sure this is
	really right even yet, but it's better than before ...

2001-04-13 19:32  tgl

	* src/include/storage/s_lock.h: Suppress compiler warnings in Vax
	and NS32K assembly code: 'register foo' is not a complete
	declaration.

2001-04-13 17:21  scrappy

	* configure, configure.in, ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-7.1rc4-7.1: 
	tag the source tree as REL7_1, renaming the old tag REL7_1_BETA
	like it should have been done
	
	generate a new Changelog from rc4, which is nice and short ... one
	python interface change
	
	tag configure as 7.1, for generating the packages ...
	
	This is it folks ... Release 7.1 is officially here ...

2001-04-13 14:38  momjian

	* HISTORY: Remove as-of from HISTORY file.

2001-04-12 05:49  darcy

	* src/interfaces/python/pgdb.py: I just noticed the beta comment. 
	That's not actually true any more so I removed it.