The main problem is that DocBook SGML allows indexterm elements just
about everywhere, but DocBook XML is stricter. For example, this common
pattern
<varlistentry>
<indexterm>...</indexterm>
<term>...</term>
...
</varlistentry>
needs to be changed to something like
<varlistentry>
<term>...<indexterm>...</indexterm></term>
...
</varlistentry>
See also bb4eefe7bf.
There is currently nothing in the build system that enforces that things
stay valid, because that requires additional tools and will receive
separate consideration.
This has been true for some time, but we were leaving users to discover it
the hard way.
Back-patch to 9.2. It might've been true before that, but we were claiming
Python 2.2 compatibility before that, so I won't guess at the exact
requirements back then.
krb5 has been deprecated since 8.3, and the recommended way to do
Kerberos authentication is using the GSSAPI authentication method
(which is still fully supported).
libpq retains the ability to identify krb5 authentication, but only
gives an error message about it being unsupported. Since all authentication
is initiated from the backend, there is no need to keep it at all
in the backend.
This can be used to mark custom built binaries with an extra version
string such as a git describe identifier or distribution package release
version.
From: Oskari Saarenmaa <os@ohmu.fi>
Development of IRIX has been discontinued, and support is scheduled
to end in December of 2013. Therefore, there will be no supported
versions of this operating system by the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is
released. Furthermore, we have no maintainer for this platform.
All of these platforms are very much obsolete.
As far as I can determine, the last version of SINIX, later renamed
Reliant, occurred some time between 2002 and 2005.
The last release of SunOS that would run on a sun3 was released in
November of 1991; the last release of OpenBSD which supported that
platform was in 2001. The highest clock speed of any processor in
the family was 25MHz.
The NS32K (national semiconductor 320xx) architecture was retired
in 1990.
Support can be re-added if a maintainer emerges for any of these
platforms, but it seems unlikely.
Reviewed by Andres Freund.
Instead of hardcoding a specific link, give a general link to the
download section of the web site. This gives the user more download
options and the sysadmins more flexibility. Also, the previously
presented link didn't work for devel versions.
It was already on its last legs, and it turns out that it was
accidentally broken in commit 89e850e6fd
and no one cared. So remove the rest the support for it and update
the documentation to indicate that Python 2.3 is now required.
Remove the following ports:
- dgux
- nextstep
- sunos4
- svr4
- ultrix4
- univel
These are obsolete and not worth rescuing. In most cases, there is
circumstantial evidence that they wouldn't work anymore anyway.
This allows different instances to use the eventlog with different
identifiers, by setting the event_source GUC, similar to how
syslog_ident works.
Original patch by MauMau, heavily modified by Magnus Hagander
As noted by Thom Brown, this confuses the DocBook index processor; it
fails to merge entries that differ only in whitespace, and sorts them
unexpectedly as well. Seems like a toolchain bug, but I'm not going to
hold my breath waiting for a fix.
Note: easiest way to find these is to look for double spaces in HTML.index.
Document how to build 64 bit Windows binaries using the MinGW64 tool set.
Remove recommendation against using Mingw as a build platform.
Be more specific about when Cygwin is useful and when it's not, in
particular note its usefulness for running psql, and
add a note about building on Cygwin in non-C locales.
Per recent discussions.
Operation", merged from upgrade sections in "Installation from Source
Code" and "Backup and Restore". This now gives a single place for all
upgrade information.
Add support for collecting "minidump" style crash dumps on
Windows, by setting up an exception handling filter. Crash
dumps will be generated in PGDATA/crashdumps if the directory
is created (the existance of the directory is used as on/off
switch for the generation of the dumps).
Craig Ringer and Magnus Hagander
Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies. Parallel
make can now span across directories. Also, make -k and make -q work
properly.
GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required.
There are numerous methods by which a Perl or Tcl function can subvert
the behavior of another such function executed later; for example, by
redefining standard functions or operators called by the target function.
If the target function is SECURITY DEFINER, or is called by such a
function, this means that any ordinary SQL user with Perl or Tcl language
usage rights can do essentially anything with the privileges of the target
function's owner.
To close this security hole, create a separate Perl or Tcl interpreter for
each SQL userid under which plperl or pltcl functions are executed within
a session. However, all plperlu or pltclu functions run within a session
still share a single interpreter, since they all execute at the trust
level of a database superuser anyway.
Note: this change results in a functionality loss when libperl has been
built without the "multiplicity" option: it's no longer possible to call
plperl functions under different userids in one session, since such a
libperl can't support multiple interpreters in one process. However, such
a libperl already failed to support concurrent use of plperl and plperlu,
so it's likely that few people use such versions with Postgres.
Security: CVE-2010-3433
It isn't, now that we ship the docs as loose files rather than a sub-tarball.
Also adjust the wording in a couple of places to make the lists of required
software read more consistently.
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander
Robert Haas
Heikki Linnakangas
Andrew Dunstan