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<sect1 id="release-8-4">
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-05-14</simpara>
+ <simpara>2009-??-??, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-06-11</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When archiving is enabled, rotate the last WAL segment at shutdown
+ so that all transactions can be archived immediately
+ (Guillaume Smet, Heikki)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Delay <quote>smart</> shutdown while a continuous archiving base backup
<listitem>
<para>
- Make parsing of <type>interval</> literals more standard-compliant (Tom)
+ Make parsing of <type>interval</> literals more standard-compliant
+ (Tom, Ron Mayer)
</para>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the second argument of <function>pg_get_expr()</> to be zero
+ when deparsing an expression that does not contain variables (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Modify <function>pg_relation_size()</> to use <literal>regclass</>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix the behavior of information schema columns
- <literal>is_insertable_into</> and <literal>is_updatable</> to
+ <structfield>is_insertable_into</> and <structfield>is_updatable</> to
be consistent (Peter)
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve the behavior of information schema
+ <structfield>datetime_precision</> columns (Peter)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These columns now show zero for <type>date</> columns, and 6
+ (the default precision) for <type>time</>, <type>timestamp</>, and
+ <type>interval</> without a declared precision, rather than showing
+ null as formerly.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enable <filename>contrib/dblink</> to use connection information
+ stored in the SQL/MED catalogs (Joe Conway)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s reporting of errors from
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <filename>contrib/dblink</> set <varname>client_encoding</>
+ to match the local database's encoding (Joe Conway)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This prevents encoding problems when communicating with a remote
+ database that uses a different encoding.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Make sure <filename>contrib/dblink</> uses a password supplied