Update version 11 release notes.

Remove description of commit 1944cdc98, which has now been back-patched
so it's not relevant to v11 any longer.  Add descriptions of other
recent commits that seemed worth mentioning.

I marked the update as stopping at 2018-07-30, because it's unclear
whether d06eebce5 will be allowed to stay in v11, and I didn't feel like
putting effort into writing a description of it yet.  If it does stay,
I think it will deserve mention in the Source Code section.
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Tom Lane 2018-08-04 23:49:53 -04:00
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<formalpara>
<title>Release date:</title>
<para>2018-??-?? (CURRENT AS OF 2018-05-01)</para>
<para>2018-??-?? (CURRENT AS OF 2018-07-30)</para>
</formalpara>
<sect2>
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<listitem>
<!--
2018-06-18 [b97a3465d] Consider syntactic form when disambiguating function vs
2018-06-18 [45e98ee73] Remove obsolete prohibition on function name matching a
-->
<para>
Consider syntactic form when disambiguating function versus column
references (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
When <replaceable>x</replaceable> is a table name or composite
column, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has traditionally
considered the syntactic
forms <literal><replaceable>f</replaceable>(<replaceable>x</replaceable>)</literal>
and <literal><replaceable>x</replaceable>.<replaceable>f</replaceable></literal>
to be equivalent, allowing tricks such as writing a function and
then using it as though it were a computed-on-demand column.
However, if both interpretations are feasible, the column
interpretation was always chosen, leading to surprising results if
the user intended the function interpretation. Now, if there is
ambiguity, the interpretation that matches the syntactic form is
chosen.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2018-04-29 [61b200e2f] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on some p
2018-04-29 [6bdf1303b] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on more p
2018-05-17 [d1fc750b5] Make numeric power() handle NaNs according to the modern
-->
<para>
Make <function>power(numeric, numeric)</function>
and <function>power(float8, float8)</function>
handle <literal>NaN</literal> inputs according to the POSIX standard
(Tom Lane, Dang Minh Huong)
</para>
<para>
POSIX says that <literal>NaN ^ 0 = 1</literal> and <literal>1 ^ NaN
= 1</literal>, but all other cases with <literal>NaN</literal>
input(s) should return <literal>NaN</literal>.
<function>power(numeric, numeric)</function> just
returned <literal>NaN</literal> in all such cases; now it honors the
two exceptions. <function>power(float8, float8)</function> followed
the standard if the C library does; but on some old Unix platforms
the library doesn't, and there were also problems on some versions
of Windows.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2017-11-17 [e87d4965b] Prevent to_number() from losing data when template doesn
-->
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<listitem>
<!--
2018-03-27 [1944cdc98] libpq: PQhost to return active connected host or hostadd
2018-06-21 [e474c2b7e] Set correct context for XPath evaluation
-->
<para>
Have libpq's <link
linkend="libpq-pqhost"><function>PQhost()</function></link>
always return the actual connected host (Haribabu Kommi)
Correctly handle relative path expressions
in <function>xmltable()</function>, <function>xpath()</function>,
and other XML-handling functions (Markus Winand)
</para>
<para>
Previously <function>PQhost()</function> often returned the
supplied host parameters, which could contain several hosts.
It will now also return the host's IP address if the host name was
not supplied. The same is true of <function>PQport()</function>,
which now returns the actual port number, not the multiple supplied
port numbers.
Per the SQL standard, relative paths start from the document node of
the XML input document, not the root node as these functions
formerly did it.
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Branch: master [6bdf1303b] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN
-->
<para>
Consistently return <literal>NaN</literal> for
<literal>NaN</literal> inputs to <function>power()</function>
on older platforms (Tom Lane, Dang Minh Huong)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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<listitem>
<!--
2017-09-12 [6e7baa322] Introduce BYTES unit for GUCs.
2018-05-23 [b06d8e58b] Accept "B" in all memory-unit GUCs, and improve error me
-->
<para>
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<listitem>
<!--
2018-03-22 [9a95a77d9] Use stdbool.h if suitable
2018-03-23 [7ba7986fb] Fix interaction of Perl and stdbool.h
2018-05-02 [6fe25c135] Change SIZEOF_BOOL to 1 for Windows.
-->
<para>
Use <filename>stdbool.h</filename> to define type <type>bool</type>
on platforms where it's suitable, which is most (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
This eliminates a coding hazard for extension modules that need
to include <filename>stdbool.h</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2017-11-18 [9288d62bb] Support channel binding 'tls-unique' in SCRAM
2017-12-19 [4bbf110d2] Add libpq connection parameter "scram_channel_binding"
2018-01-04 [d3fb72ea6] Implement channel binding tls-server-end-point for SCRAM
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<!--
2018-03-03 [a351679c8] Trivial adjustments in preparation for bootstrap data co
2018-04-08 [372728b0d] Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with
2018-04-17 [e90d4ddc6] Simplify genbki.pl's data quoting rules.
2018-04-17 [9ffcccdb9] Rationalize handling of array type names in bootstrap da
2018-04-17 [55d26ff63] Rationalize handling of single and double quotes in boot
2018-04-18 [5372c2c84] Improve error detection/reporting in Catalog.pm and genb
2018-04-26 [a0854f107] Avoid parsing catalog data twice during BKI file constru
2018-05-05 [d160882a1] Fix bootstrap parser so that its keywords are unreserved
-->
<para>
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<listitem>
<!--
2018-04-25 [46cda5bf7] Change pgindent/README to specify that we use perltidy v
2018-04-27 [a2ada08d4] perltidy: Don't write backup files
-->
<para>
Update to use <application>perltidy</application> version
<literal>20170521</literal> (Tom Lane)
<literal>20170521</literal> (Tom Lane, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>