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<para>
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Distributed checkpoints prevent checkpoint I/O spikes
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Distributed checkpoints prevent checkpoint I/O spikes
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</para>
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@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
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<para>
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Using non-persistent transaction IDs for
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read-only transactions reduces overhead
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Using non-persistent transaction IDs for read-only transactions
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reduces overhead
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Per-field and per-row storage overhead have been reduced
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Per-field and per-row storage overhead has been reduced
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<para>
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Reduce overhead by using non-persistent transaction IDs for
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read-only transactions (Florian Pflug)
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Using non-persistent transaction IDs for read-only transactions
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reduces overhead (Florian Pflug)
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</para>
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<para>
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Prevent large sequential scans from forcing out more frequently
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used cached pages (Simon, Heikki, Tom)
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Large sequential scans no longer force out frequently used
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cached pages (Simon, Heikki, Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Allow large sequential scans to use cached pages from other
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Large sequential scans can share disk reads with other
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concurrent sequential scans (Jeff Davis)
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</para>
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@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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<para>
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Allow <literal>ORDER BY ... LIMIT</> to be done without sorting
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<literal>ORDER BY ... LIMIT</> can be done without sorting
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(Greg Stark)
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</para>
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@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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</para>
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<para>
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This reduces overhead for short transactions, but may sometimes
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This reduces overhead for short transactions, but might sometimes
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increase the delay before statistics are tallied.
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</para>
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@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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<para>
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Support updatable cursors (Arul Shaji, Tom)
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Updatable cursors (Arul Shaji, Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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Create a general mechanism that supports casts to and from the
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standard string types (<type>TEXT</type>, <type>VARCHAR</type>,
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<type>CHAR</type>) for <emphasis>every</emphasis> datatype, by
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invoking the datatype's I/O functions (Tom)
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invoking the datatype's I/O functions (Tom) XXX examples?
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</para>
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<para>
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@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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comparisons, if the data types have compatible hash functions.
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Currently, cross-data-type hashing support exists for
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<type>smallint</type>/<type>integer</type>/<type>bigint</type>,
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and for <type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type>.
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and for <type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type>. XXX how do you do
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hash aggregate two different data types
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</para>
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@ -1197,8 +1198,8 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
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<para>
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Improve performance when planning large inheritance trees in which
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most tables are excluded by constraints (Tom)
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Improve performance when planning large inheritance trees in
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cases where most tables are excluded by constraints (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Add <literal>COST</literal> and <literal>ROWS</literal> options to
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<command>CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION</command> (Tom)
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<command>CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION</command> now supports
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<literal>COST</literal> and <literal>ROWS</literal> options (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows simple control over the estimated cost of a function
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call and over the estimated number of rows returned by a
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set-returning function.
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<literal>COST</literal> allows specification of the cost of a
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function call. <literal>ROWS</literal> allows specification of
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the average number or rows returned by a set-returning function.
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These values are used by the optimizer in choosing the best plan.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows a user-defined type to take a modifier, as in
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This allows a user-defined type to take a modifier, like
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<type>ssnum(7)</>. Previously only
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predefined system data types could have modifiers.
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</para>
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<para>
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Non-superuser database owners now have privileges to add trusted
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procedural languages in their databases by default (Jeremy Drake)
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Non-superuser database owners now are able to add trusted procedural
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languages to their databases by default (Jeremy Drake)
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</para>
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<para>
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While this is reasonably safe, some administrators may wish to
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While this is reasonably safe, some administrators might wish to
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revoke the privilege. It is controlled by
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<structname>pg_pltemplate</>.<structfield>tmpldbacreate</>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Formerly, <command>CLUSTER</command> would discard all tuples
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that were committed dead, even if there were still transactions
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that should be able to see them under the MVCC visibility rules.
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that should be able to see them under MVCC visibility rules.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Fix <command>EXPLAIN</command> so it can show more complex plans
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accurately (Tom)
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Fix <command>EXPLAIN</command> so it can show complex plans
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more accurately (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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References to subplan outputs are now always shown correctly,
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instead of using <literal>?column<replaceable>N</>?</literal>
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when things got too complicated.
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for complicated cases.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</para>
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<para>
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Formerly, these commands accepted <quote>schema.relation</> but
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Formerly, these commands accepted <literal>schema.relation</> but
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ignored the schema part, which was confusing.
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</para>
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<para>
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Add Universally Unique Identifier (<type>UUID</>) data type (Gevik
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Universally Unique Identifier (<type>UUID</>) data type (Gevik
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Babakhani, Neil)
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add new regexp functions <function>regexp_matches()</function>,
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Add new regular expression functions
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<function>regexp_matches()</function>,
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<function>regexp_split_to_array()</function>, and
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<function>regexp_split_to_table()</function> (Jeremy Drake, Neil)
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</para>
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<para>
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These functions provide extraction of regexp subexpressions
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and allow splitting a string using a POSIX
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regular expression.
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These functions provide extraction of regular expression
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subexpressions and allow splitting a string using a POSIX regular
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expression.
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</para>
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<para>
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Add <function>lo_truncate()</function> function for large object
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truncation (Kris Jurka)
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Add <function>lo_truncate()</function> for large object truncation
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(Kris Jurka)
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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The first request for statistics in a transaction takes a
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statistics snapshot that doesn't change during the transaction.
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This function allows the snapshot to be discarded and a new
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snapshot loaded during the next statistics query. This is
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particularly useful for PL/PgSQL functions which are confined to
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a single transaction.
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The first request for statistics in a transaction takes a statistics
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snapshot that does not change during the transaction. This function
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allows the snapshot to be discarded and a new snapshot loaded during
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the next statistics query. This is particularly useful for PL/PgSQL
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functions which are confined to a single transaction.
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</para>
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<para>
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Add <literal>ID</> (ISO day of week) and <literal>IDDD</> (ISO
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day of year) format codes for <function>to_char()</>,
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<function>to_date()</> and <function>to_timestamp()</> (Brendan
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<function>to_date()</>, and <function>to_timestamp()</> (Brendan
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Jurd)
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix off-by-one conversion in
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Fix off-by-one conversion error in
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<function>to_date()</function>/<function>to_timestamp()</function>
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<literal>D</> fields
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(Bruce)
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<literal>D</> (non-ISO day of week) fields (Bruce)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type> to handle
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<literal>Infinity</> and <literal>NAN</> (not a number)
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<literal>Infinity</> and <literal>NAN</> (Not A Number)
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consistently (Bruce)
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>PL/Perl Server-Side Language Changes</title>
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<title>Changes to Other Server-Side Languages</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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Allow type-name arguments to <function>spi_prepare()</function> to
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Allow type-name arguments to PL/Perl
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<function>spi_prepare()</function> to be data type aliases in
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addition to names in <literal>pg_type</literal> (Andrew)
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</para>
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Allow type-name arguments to PL/Python
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<function>plpy.prepare()</function> to be data type aliases in
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addition to names in <literal>pg_type</literal> (Andrew)
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<para>
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Allow type-name arguments to PL/Tcl <function>spi_prepare</> to
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be data type aliases in addition to names in
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<literal>pg_type</literal> (Andrew)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>PL/Python Server-Side Language Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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Enable PL/PythonU to compile on Python 2.5 (Marko Kreen)
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Allow type-name arguments to <function>plpy.prepare()</function> to
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be data type aliases in addition to names in
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<literal>pg_type</literal> (Andrew)
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Support a true boolean type in compatible Python versions
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Support a true PL/Python boolean type in compatible Python versions
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(Python 2.3 and later) (Marko Kreen)
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<title>PL/Tcl Server-Side Language Changes</title>
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Allow type-name arguments to <function>spi_prepare</> to
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be data type aliases in addition to names in
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<literal>pg_type</literal> (Andrew)
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Fix problems with thread-enabled <filename>libtcl</> spawning
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Fix PL/Tcl problems with thread-enabled <filename>libtcl</> spawning
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multiple threads within the backend (Steve Marshall, Paul Bayer,
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In <literal>\d</literal> patterns, always match <literal>$</literal>
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literally (Tom)
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Show aggregate return types in <literal>\da</literal> output
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In <literal>\d</literal> patterns, always match <literal>$</literal>
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literally (Tom)
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Add <literal>\prompt</literal> capability (Chad Wagner)
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Improve performance when a database has many thousands of objects (Tom)
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Improve performance when a database has thousands of objects (Tom)
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Enable server core dump generation in <application>pg_regress</> and
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provide an option to do so in <application>pg_ctl</>, where
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supported by the operating system
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(Andrew)
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Enable server core dump generation in <application>pg_regress</>
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on supported operating systems (Andrew)
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<para>
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Add <application>pg_ctl</> <literal> option to control generation
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of core dumps (Andrew)
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If this returns true after a connection attempt fails, a client
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If this returns true after a failed connection attempt, a client
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application should prompt the user for a password. In the past
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applications have had to check for a specific error message
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string to decide whether a password is needed; that approach
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is now deprecated.
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applications have had to check for a specific error messages to
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decide whether a password is needed; that approach is now
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deprecated.
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Make ecpg libraries export only intended API symbols (Michael)
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Make ecpg libraries export only necessary API symbols (Michael)
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Add native shared memory implementation for Windows (Magnus)
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Add native shared memory implementation (Magnus)
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Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the
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Create hooks to let an external plugin monitor (or even replace) the
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planner and create plans for hypothetical situations (Gurjeet
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Singh, Tom)
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