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+Weekly News - December 14 2008
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 14 2008</h1>
+
+<p>
+Welcome to PostgreSQL's newest member, Pascal Scherbaum. :)
+<a href="http://pascal.scherbaum.la/index.en.php">http://pascal.scherbaum.la/index.en.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mark Wong and others have started a monthly meeting on PostgreSQL
+performance. The first meeting will be January 8, 7:00pm at Portland
+State University, Fourth Ave Building, Room 86-01. RSVP to the PDXPUG
+list.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ARPUG has put up a Pootle server for translation.
+<a href="http://pootle.arpug.com.ar/">http://pootle.arpug.com.ar/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+Archiveopteryx 3.0.5 released.
+<a href="http://www.archiveopteryx.org/3.0.4">http://www.archiveopteryx.org/3.0.4</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Turnkey Linux has released a PostgreSQL appliance.
+<a href="http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/postgresql">http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/postgresql</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for December</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2008-12/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2008-12/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+The Call for Papers for FOSDEM 2009 has begun. PostgreSQL will have a
+booth and will share a developer room with the BSD groups. Please
+submit your talks to fosdem (at) postgresql (dot) eu. The deadline is
+2009-01-02.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGCon Brazil will be take place October 23-24 2009 at Unicamp in
+Campinas, Sao Paulo state.
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL in the News</h2>
+<p>
+Planet PostgreSQL: <a href="http://planet.postgresql.org/">http://planet.postgresql.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Submit news and announcements by Sunday at 3:00pm Pacific time.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Applied Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml, add note that autovacuum can use
+ up several times maintenance_work_mem, with warning against setting
+ it too high.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml, clarify how processes are
+ started by autovacuum, and what the effect of autovacuum_max_workers
+ parameter is. Per discussion with Alvaro Herrera.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c, replace both send and
+ receive BIO routines in the SSL code with our own, calling recv()
+ and send(). This makes the calls go through the socket emulation
+ code on Win32, making them for example properly interruptible.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c, teach pgstat_vacuum_stat
+ to not bother scanning pg_proc in the common case where no function
+ stats entries exist. Partial response to Pavel Stehule's
+ observation that small VACUUM operations are noticeably slower in
+ CVS HEAD than 8.3.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml, add a specific example of
+ parenthesizing when extracting a field of a composite column. Might
+ help cut down on future questions...
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/storage/freespace/fsmpage.c, tweak the tree
+ descent loop in fsm_search_avail to not look at the right child if
+ it doesn't need to. This saves some miniscule number of cycles, but
+ the ulterior motive is to avoid an optimization bug known to exist
+ in SCO's C compiler (and perhaps others?)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- To reduce confusion over whether VACUUM FULL is needed for
+ anti-wraparound vacuuming (it's not), say "database-wide VACUUM"
+ instead of "full-database VACUUM" in the relevant hint messages.
+ Also, document the permissions needed to do this. Per today's
+ discussion.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix failure to ensure that a snapshot is available to datatype input
+ functions when they are invoked by the parser. We had been setting
+ up a snapshot at plan time but really it needs to be done earlier,
+ before parse analysis. Per report from Dmitry Koterov. Also fix
+ two related problems discovered while poking at this one:
+ exec_bind_message called datatype input functions without
+ establishing a snapshot, and SET CONSTRAINTS IMMEDIATE could call
+ trigger functions without establishing a snapshot. Backpatch to
+ 8.2. The underlying problem goes much further back, but it is
+ masked in 8.1 and before because we didn't attempt to invoke domain
+ check constraints within datatype input. It would only be exposed
+ if a C-language datatype input function used the snapshot; which
+ evidently none do, or we'd have heard complaints sooner. Since this
+ code has changed a lot over time, a back-patch is hardly risk-free,
+ and so I'm disinclined to patch further than absolutely necessary.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Remove pg_plan_queries()'s now-useless needSnapshot parameter. It's
+ useless in 8.3, too, but I'm not back-patching this change since it
+ would break any extension modules that might be calling that
+ function.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Increase the default value of default_statistics_target from 10 to
+ 100, and its maximum value from 1000 to 10000. ALTER TABLE SET
+ STATISTICS similarly now allows a value up to 10000. Per
+ discussion.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Restore enforce_generic_type_consistency's pre-8.3 behavior of
+ allowing an actual argument type of ANYARRAY to match an argument
+ declared ANYARRAY, so long as ANYELEMENT etc aren't used. I had
+ overlooked the fact that this is a possible case while fixing bug
+ #3852; but it is possible because pg_statistic contains columns
+ declared ANYARRAY. Per gripe from Corey Horton.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Provide support for multiplexing SIGUSR1 signal. The upcoming
+ synchronous replication patch needs a signal, but we've already used
+ SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 in normal backends. This patch allows reusing
+ SIGUSR1 for that, and for other purposes too if the need arises.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Revert SIGUSR1 multiplexing patch, per Tom's objection.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml, update journaling performance docs
+ based on comments by Michael Renner.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Append major version number and for libraries soname major version
+ number to the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.
+ Also, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that
+ is what it does.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Move carefully obscured SunOS 4 specific #include out of c.h into
+ port header file. SunOS 4 is probably broken anyway, but this item
+ stuck out as completely weird.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- The macros NULL_DEV and DEVNULL were both used to work around
+ platform-specific spellings of /dev/null. But one should be enough,
+ so settle on DEVNULL.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Meskes committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.trailer, using clause has
+ to accept signed numeric constants too.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Reduce some rel.h inclusions, and add pg_list.h to pg_proc_fn.h.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut and Martin Pihlak sent in revised versions a patch to
+add an SQL/MED-compatible connection manager.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas and Fujii Masao sent in revised versions of a patch
+to multiplex SIGUSR1 for synchronous replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in another revision of the patch to add an
+sslcert option to libpq connections.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in a patch which replaces the current SSL BIO
+wrapper code.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Gregory Stark sent in two more revisions of the posix fadvise patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan sent in another revision of his patch to do parallel
+restore.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Emmanuel Cecchet sent in another revision of his patch to do automated
+partitioning.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Emmanuel Cecchet sent in another revision of his patch to do help with
+transactions on temporary tables.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Teodor Sigaev sent in another revision of his GIN improvements patch.
+
+</p>
+
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