delta/postgresql.git, branch REL8_4_15

Stamp 8.4.15.

2012-12-03T20:25:45+00:00

Update release notes for 9.2.2, 9.1.7, 9.0.11, 8.4.15, 8.3.22.

2012-12-03T20:10:22+00:00

Avoid holding vmbuffer pin after VACUUM.

2012-12-03T18:57:24+00:00

During VACUUM if we pause to perform a cycle
of index cleanup we drop the vmbuffer pin,
so we should do the same thing when heap
scan completes. This avoids holding vmbuffer
pin across the main index cleanup in VACUUM,
which could be minutes or hours longer than
necessary for correctness.

Bug report and suggested fix from Pavan Deolasee

Fix documentation of path(polygon) function.

2012-12-03T16:09:11+00:00

Obviously, this returns type "path", but somebody made a copy-and-pasteo
long ago.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

Translation updates

2012-12-03T12:51:22+00:00

Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012j.

2012-12-02T21:36:41+00:00

DST law changes in Cuba, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Palestine, Western Samoa,
and portions of Brazil.

Fix psql crash while parsing SQL file whose encoding is different from

2012-12-02T12:22:54+00:00

client encoding and the client encoding is not *safe* one. Such an
example is, file encoding is UTF-8 and client encoding SJIS. Patch
contributed by Jiang Guiqing.

Prevent passing gmake's environment variables down through pg_regress.

2012-12-01T22:24:11+00:00

When we do "make install" to create a temp installation, we don't want
that instance of make to try to communicate with any instance of make
that might be calling us.  This is known to cause problems if the
upper make has a -jN flag, and in principle could cause problems even
without that.  Unset the relevant environment variables to prevent such
issues.

Andres Freund

doc: Fix broken links to DocBook wiki

2012-12-01T06:55:25+00:00

Take buffer lock while inspecting btree index pages in contrib/pageinspect.

2012-11-30T22:02:48+00:00

It's not safe to examine a shared buffer without any lock.