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Update release notes for RC1.

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.484 2006/11/23 03:30:49 momjian Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.485 2006/11/24 23:31:55 tgl Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
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http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
does not support it
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta
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<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2006-1?-??</simpara>
<para>CURRENT AS OF 2006-11-05</>
<para>CURRENT AS OF 2006-11-24</>
</note>
<sect2>
<title>Overview</title>
<para>
This release adds many functionality and performance improvements that
were requested by users, including:
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</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.2</title>
<para>
A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is
required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
release.
</para>
<para>
Observe the following incompatibilities:
</para>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Data can no longer be shared between a PL/Perl function and a
PL/PerlU function, and modules used by a /PerlU function are no
longer available to PL/Perl functions.
</para>
<para>
Some perl installations have not been compiled with the correct flags
to allow multiple interpreters to exist within a single process.
In this situation PL/Perl and PL/PerlU cannot both be used in a
single backend. The solution is to get a Perl installation which
supports multiple interpreters. (Andrew)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
For security's sake, modules used by a PL/PerlU function are no
longer available to PL/Perl functions (Andrew)
</para>
<note>
<para>
This also implies that data can no longer be shared between a PL/Perl
function and a PL/PerlU function.
Some perl installations have not been compiled with the correct flags
to allow multiple interpreters to exist within a single process.
In this situation PL/Perl and PL/PerlU cannot both be used in a
single backend. The solution is to get a Perl installation which
supports multiple interpreters.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<para>
Below you will find a detailed account of the
changes between <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.2 and
the previous major release.
</para>
<sect3>
<title>Performance Improvements</title>
<itemizedlist>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
gigabyte boundary by <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Each backend process is now its own process group leader (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This allows query cancel to abort subprocesses invoked from a
backend or archive/recovery process.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
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<para>
Previously, it was lexical, which caused unexpected sharing
violations.
</para>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Run PL/Perl and PL/PerlU in separate interpreters, for security
reasons.
</para>
<para>
In consequence, they can no longer share data nor loaded modules.
Also, if Perl has not been compiled with the requisite flags to
allow multiple interpreters, only one of these lamguages can be used
in any given backend process. (Andrew)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Run PL/Perl and PL/PerlU in separate interpreters, for security
reasons (Andrew)
</para>
<para>
In consequence, they can no longer share data nor loaded modules.
Also, if Perl has not been compiled with the requisite flags to
allow multiple interpreters, only one of these languages can be used
in any given backend process.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Python 2.5 is now supported (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
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<listitem>
<para>
Drop privileges on startup, so that the server can be started from
Drop privileges on startup, so that the server can be started from
an administrative account (Magnus)
</para>
</listitem>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
New function gen_random_bytes() that returns cryptographically strong
New function gen_random_bytes() that returns cryptographically strong
randomness. Useful for generating encryption keys.
</para>
</listitem>