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+Weekly News - May 24 2009
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 24 2009</h1>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL 8.1 beta 2 released. Test!
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta">http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PgCon was another smash hit, with increased attendance in the face of
+decreased attendance at other conferences. Watch for video of the
+presentations soon.
+<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2009/">http://www.pgcon.org/2009/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The video from the May 12, 2009 SFPUG meeting, "BIRT & PostgreSQL," is
+now available for viewing or download from the media.postgresql.org
+server:
+<a href="http://media.postgresql.org/sfpug/sfpug-birt-20090512.mov">http://media.postgresql.org/sfpug/sfpug-birt-20090512.mov</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+JPUG 10th Anniversary Conference has started its Request for
+Proposals.
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2009-05/msg00018.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2009-05/msg00018.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MicroOLAP Database Designer 1.2.8beta1, a Windows-based designer for
+PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer/">http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The PostgreSQL/PostGIS community will be meeting in Zurich on June 6,
+2009. Details (de_CH) below:
+<a href="http://gis.hsr.ch/wiki/PostgreSQL-PostGIS-Höck">http://gis.hsr.ch/wiki/PostgreSQL-PostGIS-Höck</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<h2>PostgreSQL 8.4 Feature of the Week</h2>
+<p>
+Warm Standby: If setting up Warm Standby confused you before, give it
+a try with 8.4; it's now user-friendly.
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Tip of the Week</h2>
+<p>
+Until 8.4's Common Table Expressions and 8.5's SQL/MED come out, you
+can use the "tablefunc" contrib module includes functions for
+connect_by() joins and querying one database from another,
+respectively.
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for May</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2009-05/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2009-05/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+PGDay Junin / Buenos Aires Unnoba will be on June 6, 2009.
+<a href="http://www.arpug.com.ar/trac/wiki/PgDayUnnoba">http://www.arpug.com.ar/trac/wiki/PgDayUnnoba</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Save The Date: pgDay San Jose. Sunday, July 19th 2009 immediately
+before OSCON. CfP, more info TBA!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGCon Brazil will be take place October 23-24 2009 at Unicamp in
+Campinas, Sao Paulo state.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGDay.EU 2009 will be at Telecom ParisTech in Paris, France on
+November 6-7, 2009.
+<a href="http://www.pgday.eu/">http://www.pgday.eu/</a>
+</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 and
+Josh Berkus.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Submit news and announcements by Sunday at 3:00pm Pacific time.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Applied Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Some documentation cleanup for the addition of the KOI8U encoding.
+ Change all (remaining) mentions of KOI8 to the new canonical form
+ KOI8R. Add information about the available conversions for KOI8U.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Refer to tables by id, not by "the following table", because tables
+ are in theory floating elements.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt, update SQL
+ conformance entries for window functions functionality
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/tools/editors/emacs.samples, add some instructions on
+ how to customize emacs for working on the SGML sources.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add documentation string for LDFLAGS_SL in configure --help output.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/tools/editors/emacs.samples, fix sgml-mode example.
+ Thanks, Andrew Dunstan.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c, convert some messages to use
+ ngettext(). Author: Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c, make pwdfMatchesString()
+ a little more careful about matching * fields.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix bug #4814 (wrong subscript in consistent-function call), and add
+ some minimal regression test coverage for matchPartialInPendingList().
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix LIKE's special-case code for % followed by _. I'm not entirely
+ sure that this case is worth a special code path, but a special code
+ path that gets the boundary condition wrong is definitely no good.
+ Per bug #4821 from Andrew Gierth. In passing, clean up some minor
+ code formatting issues (excess parentheses and blank lines in odd
+ places). Back-patch to 8.3, where the bug was introduced.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Use more-portable coding for the check on handing out the last
+ available relopt_kind value in add_reloption_kind(). Per Zdenek
+ Kotala.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/commands/analyze.c, update relpages and
+ reltuples estimates in stand-alone ANALYZE, even if there's no
+ analyzable attributes or indexes. We also used to report 0 live and
+ dead tuples for such tables, which messed with autovacuum threshold
+ calculations. This fixes bug #4812 reported by George Su. Backpatch
+ back to 8.1.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c, silence a gcc compiler
+ warning about non-literal format string with no args when compiling
+ with -Wformat-security. Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Meskes committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Removed some unneeded variables and comparisons.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- More variables gcc moans about.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Removed unsigned/signed mismatches.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Removed comparison of unsigned expression < 0.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Teodor Sigaev committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/tsvector.c, re-sort tsvector's
+ lexemes in tsvectorrecv instead of emitting an error. Basically,
+ it's needed to support binary dump from 8.3 because the ordering
+ rule was changed. Per discussion with Bruce Momjian.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in two patches to improve read-only scalability.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in another revision of the GROUPING SETS patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jim Nasby sent in a patch to add a feature to vacuumdb that allows
+analyze-only as an option.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas sent in a patch to add parenthesized options to EXPLAIN.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in a patch to clean up some syntax warnings in
+tsquery_op.c
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Zdenek Kotala sent in two patches to do some cleanup to help
+pg_migrator.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tatsuhito Kasahara sent in a patch to fix ja.po.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Steve Prentice sent in two versions of a patch to supplement Pavel
+Stehule's patch for named and mixed notation support in 8.5. Pavel
+sent in a followup that touches the main parser. Steve sent an
+updated patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Dimitri Fontaine sent in a document patch for GiST extensions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Adriano Lange sent in a patch implementing 2PO, an alternative to
+the GEQO for optimizing large joins.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andres Freund sent in a patch to allow EXPLAIN ANALYZE to show
+counts of discarded tuples.
+
+</p>
+
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