Re: Time for 7.2.1?

I see the patch appeared on patches March 4, and on hackers March 6:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=BUG%23599&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dcomp.databases.postgresql.*

I was hoping our ecpg guy could take a look at it before it was applied.
I will apply it in a day or so. It is in the patches queue just added
todo:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

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Nicolas Bazin wrote:
> The ecpg Patch I send correct a bug in the pre-processor that it would be
> nice to have in this release.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:28 PM
> Subject: [HACKERS] Time for 7.2.1?
>
>
> > Seems like it's about time to release 7.2.1. We have enough
> > post-release patches in there that a dot-release is clearly needed
> > (particularly for the pg_dump-related issues). And it seems like
> > not too much new stuff is coming in. Does anyone have any issues
> > outstanding that need to be dealt with before 7.2.1?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> >
> > Post-release patches in the 7.2 branch:
> >
> > 2002-03-05 01:10 momjian
> >
> > * contrib/tsearch/dict/porter_english.dct (REL7_2_STABLE): Please,
> > apply attached patch for contrib/tsearch to 7.2.1 and current CVS.
> > It fix english stemmer's problem with ending words like
> > 'technology'.
> >
> > We have found one more bug in english stemmer. The bug is with
> > 'irregular' english words like 'skies' -> 'sky'. Please, apply
> > attached cumulative patch to 7.2.1 and current CVS instead
> > previous one.
> >
> > Thank to Thomas T. Thai <tom(at)minnesota(dot)com> for hard testing. This
> > kind of bug has significance only for dump/reload database and
> > viewing, but searching/indexing works right.
> >
> > Teodor Sigaev
> >
> > 2002-03-05 00:13 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Previous
> > patch to mark UNION outputs with common typmod (if any) breaks
> > three-or-more-way UNIONs, as per example from Josh Berkus. Cause
> > is a fragile assumption that one tlist's entries will exactly match
> > another. Restructure code to make that assumption a little less
> > fragile.
> >
> > 2002-03-04 22:45 ishii
> >
> > * src/: backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c,
> > test/regress/expected/timestamp.out,
> > test/regress/expected/timestamptz.out (REL7_2_STABLE): A backport
> > patch:
> >
> > Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/miscroseconds and
> > timestamp/timestamptz combo. Now extract/date_part returns
> > seconds*1000 or 1000000 + fraction part as the manual stats.
> > regression test are also fixed.
> >
> > See the thread in pgsql-hackers:
> >
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] timestamp_part() bug? Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002
> > 11:29:53 +0900
> >
> > 2002-03-04 12:47 tgl
> >
> > * doc/FAQ_Solaris (REL7_2_STABLE): Update FAQ_Solaris with info
> > about gcc 2.95.1 problems and how to work around 64-bit vsnprintf
> > bug.
> >
> > 2002-02-27 18:17 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/tcop/postgres.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for
> > errors reported at transaction end.
> >
> > 2002-02-26 20:47 ishii
> >
> > * src/backend/commands/copy.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for
> > followings:
> >
> > Fix bug in COPY FROM when DELIMITER is not in ASCII range. See
> > pgsql-bugs/pgsql-hackers discussion "COPY FROM is not 8bit clean"
> > around 2002/02/26 for more details -- Tatsuo Ishii
> >
> > 2002-02-26 18:48 tgl
> >
> > * src/: backend/commands/command.c, backend/commands/explain.c,
> > backend/executor/functions.c, backend/executor/spi.c,
> > backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c, backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c,
> > backend/nodes/readfuncs.c, backend/parser/analyze.c,
> > backend/tcop/dest.c, backend/tcop/postgres.c,
> > backend/tcop/pquery.c, backend/tcop/utility.c,
> > include/commands/command.h, include/nodes/parsenodes.h,
> > include/tcop/dest.h, include/tcop/pquery.h, include/tcop/utility.h
> > (REL7_2_STABLE): Back-patch fix for command completion report
> > handling. This is primarily needed so that INSERTing a row still
> > reports the row's OID even when there are ON INSERT rules firing
> > additional queries.
> >
> > 2002-02-25 16:37 tgl
> >
> > * src/bin/psql/command.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Tweak psql's \connect
> > command to not downcase unquoted database and user names. This is
> > a temporary measure to allow backwards compatibility with 7.2 and
> > earlier pg_dump. 7.2.1 and later pg_dump will double-quote mixed
> > case names in \connect. Once we feel that older dumps are not a
> > problem anymore, we can revert this change and treat \connect
> > arguments as normal SQL identifiers.
> >
> > 2002-02-25 15:07 momjian
> >
> > * src/backend/libpq/auth.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Fix for PAM error
> > message display:
> >
> > > and that the right fix is to make each of the subsequent calls be
> > in
> > > this same pattern, not to try to emulate their nonsensical style.
> >
> > Dominic J. Eidson
> >
> > 2002-02-25 11:22 thomas
> >
> > * src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Add a large
> > number of time zones to the lookup table. Fix a few
> > apparently-wrong TZ vs DTZ declarations. Same patch as added to
> > HEAD.
> >
> > 2002-02-22 10:40 momjian
> >
> > * src/include/libpq/pqsignal.h (REL7_2_STABLE): We had a problem
> > with to compile pgsql-7.2 under SW-8.0. In the mailing lists I
> > found no informations. See note for further informations.
> >
> > Add missing AuthBlockSig.
> >
> > regards Heiko
> >
> > 2002-02-22 08:02 momjian
> >
> > * doc/: FAQ_russian, src/FAQ/FAQ_russian.html (REL7_2_STABLE):
> > BACKPATCH:
> >
> > Add Russian FAQ to 7.2.1. Why not?
> >
> > 2002-02-22 01:08 momjian
> >
> > * contrib/btree_gist/btree_gist.c (REL7_2_STABLE): BACKPATCH:
> >
> > Please, apply attached patch of contrib/btree_gist to 7.2.1 and
> > current cvs. The patch fixes memory leak during creation GiST
> > index on timestamp column.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -- Teodor Sigaev teodor(at)stack(dot)net
> >
> > 2002-02-19 17:19 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Avoid failures in
> > cash_out and cash_words for INT_MIN. Also, 'fourty' -> 'forty'.
> >
> > 2002-02-18 11:04 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/commands/analyze.c (REL7_2_STABLE): Replace
> > number-of-distinct-values estimator equation, per recent pghackers
> > discussion.
> >
> > 2002-02-17 23:12 ishii
> >
> > * src/bin/pgaccess/lib/tables.tcl (REL7_2_STABLE): Fix
> > kanji-coversion key binding. This has been broken since 7.1 Per
> > Yoshinori Ariie's report.
> >
> > 2002-02-17 08:29 momjian
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: Fix SGML typo in previous
> > patch.
> >
> > 2002-02-17 06:50 momjian
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: I think it's important that
> > it's actually documented that they can add primary keys after the
> > fact!
> >
> > Also, we need to add regression tests for alter table / add primary
> > key and alter table / drop constraint. These shouldn't be added
> > until 7.3 tho methinks...
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > 2002-02-16 18:45 momjian
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml: Clarify params to ALTER TABLE
> > to clearly show single parameters.
> >
> > e.g. table contraint definition -> table_constraint_definition.
> >
> > 2002-02-15 12:46 petere
> >
> > * src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l: Remove warning about automatic
> > inclusion of sqlca.
> >
> > 2002-02-14 10:24 tgl
> >
> > * src/: backend/commands/command.c, backend/executor/spi.c,
> > backend/utils/mmgr/portalmem.c, include/utils/portal.h: Ensure that
> > a cursor is scanned under the same scanCommandId it was originally
> > created with, so that the set of visible tuples does not change as
> > a result of other activity. This essentially makes PG cursors
> > INSENSITIVE per the SQL92 definition. See bug report of 13-Feb-02.
> >
> > 2002-02-13 14:32 tgl
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/createuser.sgml: Point out that --adduser
> > actually makes the new user a superuser. This was mentioned on the
> > man page for the underlying CREATE USER command, but it should be
> > explained here too.
> >
> > 2002-02-12 18:39 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/port/dynloader/: README.dlfcn.aix, aix.h, bsdi.h,
> > dgux.h, freebsd.h, irix5.h, linux.h, netbsd.h, openbsd.h, osf.h,
> > sco.h, solaris.h, sunos4.h, svr4.h, univel.h, unixware.h, win.h:
> > Use RTLD_NOW, not RTLD_LAZY, as binding mode for dlopen() on all
> > platforms. This restores the Linux behavior to what it was in PG
> > 7.0 and 7.1, and causes other platforms to agree. (Other
> > well-tested platforms like HPUX were doing it this way already.)
> > Per pghackers discussion over the past month or so.
> >
> > 2002-02-12 17:35 tgl
> >
> > * doc/FAQ_Solaris: Add warning not to use /usr/ucb/cc on Solaris.
> >
> > 2002-02-12 17:25 momjian
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml: Fix tutorial for references problem,
> > from rainer(dot)tammer(at)spg(dot)schulergroup(dot)com
> >
> > 2002-02-12 16:25 tgl
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml, src/backend/commands/copy.c: Modify
> > COPY TO to emit carriage returns and newlines as backslash escapes
> > (backslash-r, backslash-n) for protection against
> > newline-conversion munging. In future we will also tweak COPY
> > FROM, but this part of the change should be backwards-compatible.
> > Per pghackers discussion. Also, update COPY reference page to
> > describe the backslash conversions more completely and accurately.
> >
> > 2002-02-11 18:25 momjian
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml: Update wal files computation
> > documentation.
> >
> > 2002-02-11 17:41 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/access/gist/gist.c: Tweak GiST code to work correctly
> > on machines where 8-byte alignment of pointers is required. Patch
> > from Teodor Sigaev per pghackers discussion. It's an ugly kluge
> > but avoids forcing initdb; we'll put a better fix into 7.3 or
> > later.
> >
> > 2002-02-11 16:38 petere
> >
> > * src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.h: Fix for old FreeBSD
> > versions that don't have RTLD_GLOBAL
> >
> > 2002-02-11 15:10 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/executor/: nodeIndexscan.c, nodeTidscan.c: Repair
> > problems with EvalPlanQual where target table is scanned as inner
> > indexscan (ie, one with runtime keys). ExecIndexReScan must
> > compute or recompute runtime keys even if we are rescanning in the
> > EPQ case. TidScan seems to have comparable problems. Per bug
> > noted by Barry Lind 11-Feb-02.
> >
> > 2002-02-11 10:19 momjian
> >
> > * contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade: Fix flag handling of pg_upgrade.
> >
> > 2002-02-10 19:18 tgl
> >
> > * src/bin/pg_dump/: common.c, pg_backup.h, pg_backup_archiver.c,
> > pg_dump.c, pg_dump.h, pg_dumpall.sh: Be more wary about mixed-case
> > database names and user names. Get the CREATE DATABASE command
> > right in pg_dump -C case.
> >
> > 2002-02-10 19:14 tgl
> >
> > * doc/src/sgml/ref/: pg_dump.sgml, pg_restore.sgml: pg_dump and
> > pg_restore man pages need to mention that one should restore into a
> > virgin database, ie, one created from template0, if there are any
> > site-local additions in template1.
> >
> > 2002-02-10 17:56 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/storage/file/fd.c: Don't Assert() that fsync() and
> > close() never fail; I have seen this crash on Solaris when over
> > disk quota. Instead, report such failures via elog(DEBUG).
> >
> > 2002-02-08 11:30 momjian
> >
> > * src/backend/utils/init/findbe.c: Move sys/types.h to top, for
> > hiroyuki hanai/ FreeBSD.
> >
> > 2002-02-08 09:47 momjian
> >
> > * contrib/mysql/my2pg.pl: Upgrade my2pg version 1.23.
> >
> > 2002-02-07 17:20 tgl
> >
> > * src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c: pgstat's truncation of query
> > string needs to be multibyte-aware. Patch from sugita(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp(dot)
> >
> > 2002-02-07 17:11 tgl
> >
> > * contrib/: intarray/_int.c, tsearch/README.tsearch,
> > tsearch/gistidx.c, tsearch/tsearch.sql.in: Repair some problems in
> > GIST-index contrib modules. Patch from Teodor Sigaev
> > <teodor(at)stack(dot)net>.
> >
> > 2002-02-06 19:27 inoue
> >
> > * src/backend/tcop/utility.c: Removed a check for REINDEX TABLE.
> >
> > 2002-02-06 15:29 petere
> >
> > * doc/Makefile: Fix for parallel make
> >
> > 2002-02-06 12:27 tgl
> >
> > * src/bin/pg_dump/: pg_backup_archiver.c, pg_dump.c: Fix failure to
> > reconnect as sequence's owner before issuing setval().
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