[Pgpool-general] pgpool-II 3.1.0 beta1 released

[Toshihiro Kitagawa]

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the
availability of pgpool-II 3.1.0 beta1.

Users are encouraged to take part in our beta test program.
pgpool-II 3.1.0 beta1 can be down loaded here:

http://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/3105/pgpool-II-3.1.0-beta1.tar.gz

Please help us in testing and making pgpool-II 3.1 better!
Major changes from alpha3 to beta1 are:

New features
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- Add sr_check_period, sr_check_user and sr_check_password directives.
  These are used for streaming replication delay checking and determining
  primary node(Tatsuo)

- Add Simplified Chinese version of tutorial document(Huang Bambo)

Bug fixes
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- Fix bug which cannot use the cursors of JDBC driver on standby node.
  The transaction commands come to be sent to all nodes by this fix in
  master/slave mode(Kitagawa)

- Fix bug with the handling of empty queries. The empty queries come
  to be handled the same as SELECT queries. This fix allows load-balance
  after the empty query(Kitagawa)

- Fix insert_lock so that it works correctly even if the column
  definition such as "DEFAULT nextval(('"x_seq"'::text)::regclass)"
  (Kitagawa)

- Fix pcp_attach_node command so that it emits error message while
  doing failover(Kitagawa)

- Fix log message which is emitted when pgpool-II cannot parse the
  query in the extended query protocol so that it shows the query
  (Kitagawa)

- Fix description about backend_weight inpgpool-II manual. It can be
  changed by reloading pgpool.conf(Tatsuo)

- Fix and enhance wording in English tutorial document. Fix suggested
  by Huang Bambo(Tatsuo)

Enhancements
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- Allow to compile pgpool-regclass against PostgreSQL 9.1(Tatsuo)

- Update and sync pgpool-II manuals of English version and Japanese
  version(Tatsuo)