On Friday 01 December 2006 15:18, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Here are release notes at this point for the changes made in the last
> week or so.  Some of these changes are relatively "cosmetic" in
> nature; the one issue with potentially grave consequences is the one
> with UPDATE FUNCTIONS, where upgrades from 1.1.5 or 1.1.6 to 1.2.1
> will not (as of 1.2.0/1.2.1) include all the necessary DDL changes.
>
> $Id: RELEASE-1.2.2,v 1.1.2.1 2006/12/01 22:41:44 cbbrowne Exp $
>
> Release 1.2.2 of Slony-I has the following bug fixes over 1.2.1:
>
> - SGML tagging fixes to allow docs to be generated on Fedora
>
> - Fixes to altperl scripts (init cluster, store node) so they would
>   properly generate STORE PATH requests (which had broken when STORE
>   LISTEN code was removed)
>
> - If PostgreSQL version is 8.1 or greater, we can use pg_config
>   sharedir. Otherwise we will resort to the default guessing mode.
>
> - Some makefile hygenic fixes
>
> - Added \n to a number of log requests
>
> - Fix to UPDATE FUNCTIONS which did not consider versions 1.1.5/1.1.6
>   to be members of the 1.1 stream.  The minor problem with this was
>   that Slony-I tables wouldn't get altered to drop out OIDs.  The
>   major problem was that the new table sl_registry wouldn't get
>   created
>
> - Removed some confusing NOTICEs concerning management of partial
>   indexes on sl_log_1 and sl_log_2.
>
> - Close file descriptors upon running slon_terminate_worker() so that
>   we don't run out of file descriptors
>
> - Added in sleep(10) requests in several places where attempts to
>   access the database in the main thread fails; this means that, for
>   instance, the main DB is down, the slon doesn't simply sit there
>   continually attempting to reconnect, as many times per second as it
>   can.
>
> There are a couple of bugs in the queue that I intend to take a look
> at on Monday to see if there are relevant changes:
>
>   http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/bugs/bugupdate.php?1585
>   http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/bugs/bugupdate.php?1590
>
> If Darcy has opportunity to look at #1609, that would be a nice thing;
> there's apparently some small problem with the slon.conf file parser;
> it evidently chokes if there is not a [cr/lf] on the last line, which
> may represent something that may be trivially fixed.  If I can avoid
> Flex this week, I'll be just as happy ;-).
>
>   http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/bugs/bugupdate.php?1609

Yes I'll look at that one, also jdavis has a request related to 
standards_conforming_strings, which he reported to the mailing list that I'd 
like to fix as well.


>
> Once all of this falls into place, version 1.2.2 should soon be
> available.  Not too late next week, I hope.
>
> By the way, many thanks to those that have been pointing out the
> (generally) little problems you're finding here and there.  I only
> wish we could have seen more of these before 1.2.0 rather than this
> late :-(.