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#
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# IDENTIFICATION
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# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.52 2002/10/12 16:34:28 petere Exp $
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# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.53 2002/11/11 20:06:00 petere Exp $
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#
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#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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##
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JADE.text = $(JADE) $(JADEFLAGS) $(SGMLINCLUDE) $(CATALOG) -d stylesheet.dsl -i output-text -t sgml
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LYNX = lynx
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INSTALL HISTORY regress_README: % : %.html
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@echo "|";\
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echo "| You should now take '$<', save it as a text file in Netscape,";\
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echo "| and put it in place of the existing '$@' file.";\
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echo "|"
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$(PERL) -p -e 's/<H(1|2)$$/<H\1 align=center/g' $< | $(LYNX) -dump -nolist -stdin >$@
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INSTALL.html: standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml version.sgml
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$(JADE.text) -V nochunks standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml >$@
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<!--
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.164 2002/11/08 03:44:15 momjian Exp $
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.165 2002/11/11 20:05:59 petere Exp $
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-->
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<appendix id="release">
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<term>Schemas</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Schemas allow users to create objects in their own namespace
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so two people or applications can have tables with the same
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name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
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Table/index creation can be restricted by removing
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permissions on the public schema.
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Schemas allow users to create objects in their own namespace
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so two people or applications can have tables with the same
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name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
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Table/index creation can be restricted by removing permissions
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on the public schema.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Drop Column</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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PostgreSQL now supports ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN functionality.
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PostgreSQL now supports the <literal>ALTER TABLE ... DROP
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COLUMN</literal> functionality.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Table Functions</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Functions returning multiple rows and/or multiple columns are
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now much easier to use than before. You can call such a
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"table function" in the SELECT FROM clause, treating its output
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like a table. Also, plpgsql functions can now return sets.
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Functions returning multiple rows and/or multiple columns are
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now much easier to use than before. You can call such a
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<quote>table function</quote> in the <literal>SELECT</literal>
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<literal>FROM</literal> clause, treating its output like a
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table. Also, <application>PL/pgSQL</application> functions can
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now return sets.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Prepared Queries</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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For performance, PostgreSQL now supports prepared queries.
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PostgreSQL now supports prepared queries, for improved
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performance.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Dependency Tracking</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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PostgreSQL now records object dependencies, which allows
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improvements in many areas.
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PostgreSQL now records object dependencies, which allows
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improvements in many areas. <command>DROP</command>
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statements now take either <literal>CASCADE</> or
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<literal>RESTRICT</> to control whether dependent objects are
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also dropped.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Privileges</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Functions and procedural languages now have privileges, and
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people running them can take on the privileges of their creators.
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Functions and procedural languages now have privileges, and
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functions can be defined to run with the privileges of their
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creator.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Multibyte/Locale</term>
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<term>Internationalization</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Both multibyte and locale are now always enabled.
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Both multibyte and locale support are now always enabled.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Logging</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A variety of logging options have been enhanced.
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A variety of logging options have been enhanced.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Interfaces</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A large number of interfaces have been moved to
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<ulink url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">
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http://gborg.postgresql.org</>where they can be developed
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and released independently.
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A large number of interfaces have been moved to <ulink
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url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org</>
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where they can be developed and released independently.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>Functions/Identifiers</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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By default, functions can now take up to 32 parameters, and
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identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long.
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By default, functions can now take up to 32 parameters, and
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identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<title>Migration to version 7.3</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore using <command>pg_dump</> is required for those
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wishing to migrate data from any previous release. If your
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application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will be
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required due to the introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more
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information, see:
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<ulink
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url="http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3">
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http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3</>
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A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</> is required for those
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wishing to migrate data from any previous release. If your
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application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will
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be required due to the introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more
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information, see: <ulink
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url="http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3">
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http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3</>.
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</para>
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<para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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pg_hba.conf now has a USER column and additional features.
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<filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> now has a column for the user
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name and additional features. Existing files need to be
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adjusted.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Several GUC logging parameters have been renamed and improved.
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Several <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> logging parameters
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have been renamed and improved.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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LIMIT #,# is disabled, use LIMIT # OFFSET #.
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<literal>LIMIT #,#</literal> has been disabled; use
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<literal>LIMIT # OFFSET #</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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INSERTs with column lists must specify all values, e.g.
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INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1') is now invalid.
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<command>INSERT</command> statements with column lists must
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specify all values; e.g., <literal>INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2)
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VALUES ('val1')</literal> is now invalid.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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DROP object now takes either CASCADE or RESTRICT to control
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whether dependent objects are also dropped.
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An index is now not automatically created for <type>serial</type> columns.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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An index is now not automatically created for SERIAL columns.
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A <command>SET</command> command inside an aborted transaction
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is now rolled back.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A SET inside an aborted transaction is now rolled back.
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<command>COPY</command> no longer considers missing trailing
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columns to be null. All columns need to be specified.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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COPY no longer considers missing trailing columns to be NULL.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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TIMESTAMP and TIME data types now default to WITHOUT TIMEZONE.
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The data type <type>timestamp</type> is now equivalent to
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<type>timestamp without timezone</type>, instead of
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<type>timestamp with timezone</type>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Pre-7.3 databases loaded into 7.3 will not have the new object
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dependencies for SERIAL, UNIQUE constraints, and foreign keys. See
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/contrib/adddepend for a detailed description and a script that
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will add the such dependencies.
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dependencies for <type>serial</type> columns, unique
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constraints, and foreign keys. See the directory
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<filename>contrib/adddepend/</filename> for a detailed
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description and a script that will add the such dependencies.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<sect3>
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<title>Server Operation</title>
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<literallayout>
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Kerberos V Heimdal support (KTH)
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Add pg_locks view to show locks (Neil)
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Security fixes for password negotiation memory allocation (Neil)
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Remove support for version 0, <=6.2 FE/BE protocol (Tom)
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Reserve the last few backend slots for superusers, add GUC variable
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Remove support for version 0 FE/BE protocol (PostgreSQL 6.2 and
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earlier) (Tom)
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Reserve the last few backend slots for superusers, add parameter
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superuser_reserved_connections to control this (Nigel J. Andrews)
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</literallayout>
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</sect3>
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<title>Performance</title>
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<literallayout>
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Improve startup by calling localtime() only once (Tom)
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Cache system catalog information in flat files for faster startup (Tom)
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Cache system catalog information in flat files for faster startup
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(Tom)
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Improve caching of index information (Tom)
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Optimizer improvements (Tom, Fernando Nasser)
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Catalog caches now store failed lookups (Tom)
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Hash function improvements (Neil)
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Improve performance of query tokenization and network handling (Peter)
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Speed improvement for large object restore (Mario Weilguni)
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Mark expired index entries on first lookup, saving later heap fetches (Tom)
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Mark expired index entries on first lookup, saving later heap fetches
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(Tom)
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Eliminate NULL bitmap padding when not required (Manfred)
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Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris, for performance (Bruce)
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Reduce per-row overhead by four bytes (Manfred Koizar)
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Fix GEQO optimizer bug (Neil Conway)
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Make WITHOUT OID actually save four bytes per row (Manfred Koizar)
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Add GUC default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets (Neil)
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Add default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets
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(Neil)
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Use local buffer cache for temporary tables so no WAL overhead (Tom)
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Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall, Tom)
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Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall,
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Tom)
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Improved WAL write concurrency (Tom)
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</literallayout>
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</sect3>
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Add OWNER to CREATE DATABASE so superusers can create databases
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on behalf of unprivileged users. (Gavin Sherry, Tom)
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Add new object permission bits EXECUTE and USAGE (Tom)
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Add SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION (Peter)
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Allow functions to be executed with the privilege of the function owner (Peter)
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</literallayout>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Client Authentication</title>
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<literallayout>
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Allow $HOME/.pgpass to store host/user password combinations (Alvaro Herrera)
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Add SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
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(Tom)
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Allow functions to be executed with the privilege of the function
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owner (Peter)
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</literallayout>
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</sect3>
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<title>Server Configuration</title>
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<literallayout>
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Server log messages now tagged with LOG, not DEBUG (Bruce)
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Add USER column to pg_hba.conf (Bruce)
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Add user column to pg_hba.conf (Bruce)
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Have log_connections output two lines in log file (Tom)
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Remove debug_level from postgresql.conf, now SERVER_MIN_MESSAGES (Bruce)
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New ALTER DATABASE/USER ... SET command for per-user/db initialization (Peter)
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New GUC variables server_min_messages and client_min_messages which control
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which messages are sent to the server logs or client applications (Bruce)
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Allow pg_hba.conf to specify lists of users/dbs separated by commas,
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group names prepended with +, and file names prepended with @ (Bruce)
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Allow group names specified by +
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Add samegroup in pg_hba.conf for group name/dbname restriction (Bruce)
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Remove secondary password file capability (Bruce)
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Remove pg_passwd utility (Bruce)
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Add GUC variable db_user_namespace for db-local user names (Bruce)
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Remove debug_level from postgresql.conf, now server_min_messages
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(Bruce)
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New ALTER DATABASE/USER ... SET command for per-user/database
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initialization (Peter)
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New parameters server_min_messages and client_min_messages to
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control which messages are sent to the server logs or client
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applications (Bruce)
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Allow pg_hba.conf to specify lists of users/databases separated by
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commas, group names prepended with +, and file names prepended
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with @ (Bruce)
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Remove secondary password file capability and pg_password utility
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(Bruce)
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Add variable db_user_namespace for database-local user names (Bruce)
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SSL improvements (Bear Giles)
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Make encryption of stored passwords the default (Bruce)
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Allow pg_statistics to be reset by calling pg_stat_reset() (Christopher)
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Add log_duration GUC parameter (Bruce)
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Rename GUC debug_print_query to log_statement (Bruce)
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Rename GUC show_query_stats to show_statement_stats (Bruce)
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Add GUC param log_min_error_statement to print query to logs on error (Gavin)
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Allow pg_statistics to be reset by calling pg_stat_reset()
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(Christopher)
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Add log_duration parameter (Bruce)
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Rename debug_print_query to log_statement (Bruce)
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Rename show_query_stats to show_statement_stats (Bruce)
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Add param log_min_error_statement to print commands to logs on error
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(Gavin)
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</literallayout>
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</sect3>
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Disable LIMIT #,# syntax; now only LIMIT # OFFSET # supported (Bruce)
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Increase identifier length to 63 (Neil, Bruce)
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UNION fixes for merging >= 3 columns of different lengths (Tom)
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Add DEFAULT keyword to INSERT, i.e INSERT ... (..., DEFAULT, ) (Rod)
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Allow views to have default values using ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT (Neil)
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Fail on INSERTs with column lists that don't supply all column values,
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e.g. INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1'); (Rod)
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Add DEFAULT keyword to INSERT, e.g., INSERT ... (..., DEFAULT, )
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(Rod)
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Allow views to have default values using ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT
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(Neil)
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Fail on INSERTs with column lists that don't supply all column
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values, e.g., INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1'); (Rod)
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Fix for join aliases (Tom)
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Fix for FULL OUTER JOINs (Tom)
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Improve reporting of invalid identifier and location (Tom, Gavin)
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Allow 'ctid' to be used in a view and currtid(viewname) (Hiroshi)
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Fix for CREATE TABLE AS with UNION (Tom)
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SQL99 syntax improvements (Thomas)
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Add GUC statement_timeout variable to cancel queries (Bruce)
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Add statement_timeout variable to cancel queries (Bruce)
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Allow prepared queries with PREPARE/EXECUTE (Neil)
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Allow FOR UPDATE to appear after LIMIT/OFFSET (Bruce)
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Add auto-transactions with GUC variable autocommit (Tom, David Van Wie)
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Add variable autocommit (Tom, David Van Wie)
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</sect3>
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<literallayout>
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Make equals signs optional in CREATE DATABASE (Gavin Sherry)
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Make ALTER TABLE OWNER to change index ownership (Neil)
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Add per-database and per-user startup commands, ALTER DATABASE ... SET and
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ALTER USER ... SET (Peter)
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New ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET STORAGE controls TOAST
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storage, compression (John Gray)
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Add SCHEMA support with CREATE/DROP SCHEMA (Tom)
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New ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET STORAGE controls
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TOAST storage, compression (John Gray)
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Add schema support, CREATE/DROP SCHEMA (Tom)
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Create schema for temporary tables (Tom)
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Add GUC variable search_path for namespace schema search (Tom)
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Add variable search_path for schema search (Tom)
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Add ALTER TABLE SET/DROP NOT NULL (Christopher)
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New CREATE FUNCTION volatility levels (Tom)
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Make rule names unique only per table (Tom)
|
||||
Add 'ON tablename' clause to DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE (Tom)
|
||||
Add ALTER TRIGGER RENAME (Joe)
|
||||
New current_schema() and current_schemas() inquiry functions (Tom)
|
||||
Allow functions to return multiple rows, also called table functions (Joe)
|
||||
Allow functions to return multiple rows (table functions) (Joe)
|
||||
Make WITH optional in CREATE DATABASE, for consistency (Bruce)
|
||||
Add object dependency tracking (Rod, Tom)
|
||||
Add RESTRICT/CASCADE to DROP commands (Rod)
|
||||
Add ALTER TABLE DROP non-CHECK CONSTRAINT (Rod)
|
||||
Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Rod)
|
||||
Add ALTER TABLE DROP for non-CHECK CONSTRAINT (Rod)
|
||||
Autodestroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Rod)
|
||||
Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key (Rod)
|
||||
Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped (Rod)
|
||||
Add CREATE/DROP OPERATOR CLASS (Bill Studenmund, Tom)
|
||||
Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN (Christopher, Tom, Hiroshi)
|
||||
Prevent inherited columns from being removed or renamed (Alvaro Herrera)
|
||||
Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate db states (Stephan)
|
||||
Prevent inherited columns from being removed or renamed (Alvaro
|
||||
Herrera)
|
||||
Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate database
|
||||
states (Stephan)
|
||||
Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
|
||||
Add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
|
||||
Add CREATE OR REPLACE RULE (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
|
||||
Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more accurate values (Tom)
|
||||
Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more predictable values
|
||||
(Tom)
|
||||
Triggers are now fired in alphabetical order (Tom)
|
||||
Add /contrib/adddepend to handle pre-7.3 object dependencies (Rod)
|
||||
Allow better casting when inserting/updating values (Tom)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Utility Commands</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Have COPY TO output embedded carriage returns and newlines as \r and \n (Tom)
|
||||
Have COPY TO output embedded carriage returns and newlines as \r and
|
||||
\n (Tom)
|
||||
Allow DELIMITER in COPY FROM to be 8-bit clean (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Make pg_dump use ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, for performance (Neil)
|
||||
Disable brackets in multi-statement rules (Bruce)
|
||||
Disable brackets in multistatement rules (Bruce)
|
||||
Disable VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)
|
||||
Allow dropdb and other scripts to use identifiers with spaces (Bruce)
|
||||
Restrict comment to the current database
|
||||
Allow comments on operators, independent of the underlying function (Rod)
|
||||
Restrict database comment changes to the current database
|
||||
Allow comments on operators, independent of the underlying function
|
||||
(Rod)
|
||||
Rollback SET commands in aborted transactions (Tom)
|
||||
EXPLAIN now outputs as a query (Tom)
|
||||
Display sort keys in EXPLAIN (Tom)
|
||||
Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set GUC variables for a single transaction (Tom)
|
||||
Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set configuration variables for a
|
||||
single transaction (Tom)
|
||||
Allow ANALYZE to run in a transaction (Bruce)
|
||||
Improve COPY syntax using new WITH clauses, keep backward compatibility (Bruce)
|
||||
Improve COPY syntax using new WITH clauses, keep backward
|
||||
compatibility (Bruce)
|
||||
Fix pg_dump to consistently output tags in non-ASCII dumps (Bruce)
|
||||
Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file (Rod)
|
||||
Add COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT (Rod)
|
||||
@ -421,11 +441,13 @@ Fix CLUSTER to preserve all table attributes (Alvaro Herrera)
|
||||
New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)
|
||||
Add smart quoting, portability improvements to pg_dump output (Peter)
|
||||
Dump serial columns out as SERIAL (Tom)
|
||||
Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner, Bruce)
|
||||
Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints (Rod)
|
||||
Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner,
|
||||
Bruce)
|
||||
Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential
|
||||
constraints (Rod)
|
||||
Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)
|
||||
Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on
|
||||
previous CLUSTER operations (Alvaro Herrera)
|
||||
Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database
|
||||
based on previous CLUSTER operations (Alvaro Herrera)
|
||||
Overhaul pg_dumpall (Peter)
|
||||
Allow REINDEX of TOAST tables (Tom)
|
||||
Implemented START TRANSACTION, per SQL99 (Neil)
|
||||
@ -440,34 +462,41 @@ Fix ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for inheritance (Alvaro Herrera)
|
||||
Fix factorial(0) to return 1 (Bruce)
|
||||
Date/time/timezone improvements (Thomas)
|
||||
Fix for array slice extraction (Tom)
|
||||
Fix extract/date_part to report proper microseconds for timestamp (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Fix extract/date_part to report proper microseconds for timestamp
|
||||
(Tatsuo)
|
||||
Allow text_substr() and bytea_substr() to read TOAST values more
|
||||
efficiently (John Gray)
|
||||
Add DOMAIN type support (Rod)
|
||||
Make WITHOUT TIME ZONE the default for TIMESTAMP and TIME data types (Thomas)
|
||||
Add domain support (Rod)
|
||||
Make WITHOUT TIME ZONE the default for TIMESTAMP and TIME data types
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Allow alternate storage scheme of 64-bit integers for date/time types
|
||||
using --enable-integer-datetimes in configure (Thomas)
|
||||
Make timezone(timestamptz) return timestamp rather than a string (Thomas)
|
||||
Allow fractional seconds in date/time types for dates prior to 1BC (Thomas)
|
||||
Make timezone(timestamptz) return timestamp rather than a string
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Allow fractional seconds in date/time types for dates prior to 1BC
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Limit timestamp data types to 6 decimal places of precision (Thomas)
|
||||
Change timezone conversion functions from timetz() to timezone() (Thomas)
|
||||
Add GUC variables datestyle and timezone (Tom)
|
||||
Add OVERLAY(), which allows substitution of a substring in a string (Thomas)
|
||||
Add SIMILAR TO as a synonym for our existing operator "~" (Thomas, Tom)
|
||||
Change timezone conversion functions from timetz() to timezone()
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Add configuration variables datestyle and timezone (Tom)
|
||||
Add OVERLAY(), which allows substitution of a substring in a string
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Add SIMILAR TO (Thomas, Tom)
|
||||
Add regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape) (Thomas)
|
||||
Add LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP functions (Thomas)
|
||||
Add named composite types using CREATE TYPE typename AS (column) (Joe)
|
||||
Add named composite types using CREATE TYPE typename AS (column)
|
||||
(Joe)
|
||||
Allow composite type definition in the table alias clause (Joe)
|
||||
Add new API to simplify creation of C language table functions (Joe)
|
||||
Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99 functions
|
||||
for which these parentheses do not match the standar (Thomas)
|
||||
Add appendix in the User's Guide which lists SQL92 features (Thomas)
|
||||
Allow macaddr data type to accept 12 hex digits with no separators (Mike Wyer)
|
||||
Add CREATE/DROP CAST (Thomas)
|
||||
Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99
|
||||
functions for which these parentheses do not match the standard
|
||||
(Thomas)
|
||||
Allow macaddr data type to accept 12 hex digits with no separators
|
||||
(Mike Wyer)
|
||||
Add CREATE/DROP CAST (Peter)
|
||||
Add IS DISTINCT FROM operator (Thomas)
|
||||
Add SQL99 TREAT() function, synonym for CAST() (Thomas)
|
||||
Add pg_backend_pid() to output backend pid (Bruce)
|
||||
Allow inet arrays in /contrib/array (Neil)
|
||||
Add IS OF / IS NOT OF type predicate (Thomas)
|
||||
Allow bit string constants without fully-specified length (Thomas)
|
||||
Allow conversion between 8-byte integers and bit strings (Thomas)
|
||||
@ -479,30 +508,33 @@ Add current_database() (Rod)
|
||||
Fix cash_words() to not overflow buffer (Tom)
|
||||
Add functions replace(), split_part(), to_hex() (Joe)
|
||||
Fix LIKE for bytea as a right-hand argument (Joe)
|
||||
Prevent crashes caused by SELECT cash_out(2)
|
||||
Triggers are now fired in alphabetical order (Tom)
|
||||
Add /contrib/adddepend to handle pre-7.3 object dependencies (Rod)
|
||||
Allow better casting when INSERTing/UPDATing values (Tom)
|
||||
Prevent crashes caused by SELECT cash_out(2) (Tom)
|
||||
Fix to_char(1,'FM999.99') to return a period (Karel)
|
||||
Fix trigger/type/language functions returning OPAQUE to return proper type (Tom)
|
||||
Fix trigger/type/language functions returning OPAQUE to return
|
||||
proper type (Tom)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Internationalization</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Add additional encodings (Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese (TCVN),
|
||||
Arabic (WIN1256), Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC) (Eiji Tokuya)
|
||||
Add additional encodings (Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese
|
||||
(TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256), Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC)
|
||||
(Eiji Tokuya)
|
||||
Enable locale support by default (Peter)
|
||||
Add GUC locale variables (Peter)
|
||||
Escape byes >= 0x7f for multibyte in PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Add locale variables (Peter)
|
||||
Escape byes >= 0x7f for multibyte in PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea
|
||||
(Tatsuo)
|
||||
Add locale awareness to regular expression character classes
|
||||
Enable multibyte support by default (Tatso)
|
||||
Add GUC variables client_encoding (Tom)
|
||||
Add GB18030 multibyte support (Bill Huang)
|
||||
Add CREATE/DROP CONVERSION, allowing loadable encodings (Tatsuo, Kaori)
|
||||
Add CREATE/DROP CONVERSION, allowing loadable encodings (Tatsuo,
|
||||
Kaori)
|
||||
Add pg_conversion table (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Add SQL99 CONVERT() function (Tatsuo)
|
||||
pg_dumpall, pg_controldata, and pg_resetxlog now national-language
|
||||
aware (Peter)
|
||||
New and updated translations
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -510,8 +542,10 @@ Add SQL99 CONVERT() function (Tatsuo)
|
||||
<title>Server-side Languages</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Allow recursive SQL function (Peter)
|
||||
Change PL/Tcl build to use configured compiler and Makefile.shlib (Peter)
|
||||
Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible (Tom, Neil)
|
||||
Change PL/Tcl build to use configured compiler and Makefile.shlib
|
||||
(Peter)
|
||||
Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible
|
||||
(Tom, Neil)
|
||||
Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)
|
||||
Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
|
||||
Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)
|
||||
@ -522,7 +556,8 @@ Remove some memory leaks (Nigel J. Andrews, Tom)
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Psql</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Don't lowercase psql \connect database name for 7.2.0 compatibility (Tom)
|
||||
Don't lowercase psql \connect database name for 7.2.0 compatibility
|
||||
(Tom)
|
||||
Add psql \timing to time user queries (Greg Sabino Mullane)
|
||||
Have psql \d show index information (Greg Sabino Mullane)
|
||||
New psql \dD shows domains (Jonathan Eisler)
|
||||
@ -539,10 +574,14 @@ Allow \copy to specify column names (Tom)
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Libpq</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Add $HOME/.pgpass to store host/user password combinations (Alvaro
|
||||
Herrera)
|
||||
Add PQunescapeBytea() function to libpq (Patrick Welche)
|
||||
Fix for sending large queries over non-blocking connections (Bernhard Herzog)
|
||||
Fix for sending large queries over non-blocking connections
|
||||
(Bernhard Herzog)
|
||||
Fix for libpq using timers on Win9X (David Ford)
|
||||
Allow libpq notify to handle servers with different-length identifiers (Tom)
|
||||
Allow libpq notify to handle servers with different-length
|
||||
identifiers (Tom)
|
||||
Add libpq PQescapeString() and PQescapeBytea() to Win32 (Bruce)
|
||||
Fix for SSL with non-blocking connections (Jack Bates)
|
||||
Add libpq connection timeout parameter (Denis A Ustimenko)
|
||||
@ -552,73 +591,73 @@ Add libpq connection timeout parameter (Denis A Ustimenko)
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>JDBC</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Allow jdbc to compile with jdk 1.4 (Dave)
|
||||
Add jdbc3 support (Barry)
|
||||
Allows jdbc to set loglevel by adding ?loglevel=X to the connection URL (Barry)
|
||||
Add jdbc Driver.info() message that prints out the version number (Barry)
|
||||
Add jdbc updateable result sets (Raghu Nidagal, Dave)
|
||||
Add jdbc support for callable statements (Paul Bethe)
|
||||
Add jdbc query cancel capability
|
||||
Add refresh row to jdbc (Dave)
|
||||
Fix jdbc MD5 encryption handling for multibyte servers (Jun Kawai)
|
||||
Add JDBC support for prepared statements (Barry)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>ECPG</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Fixed ecpg bug concerning octal numbers in single quotes (Michael)
|
||||
Allow JDBC to compile with JDK 1.4 (Dave)
|
||||
Add JDBC 3 support (Barry)
|
||||
Allows JDBC to set loglevel by adding ?loglevel=X to the connection
|
||||
URL (Barry)
|
||||
Add Driver.info() message that prints out the version number (Barry)
|
||||
Add updateable result sets (Raghu Nidagal, Dave)
|
||||
Add support for callable statements (Paul Bethe)
|
||||
Add query cancel capability
|
||||
Add refresh row (Dave)
|
||||
Fix MD5 encryption handling for multibyte servers (Jun Kawai)
|
||||
Add support for prepared statements (Barry)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Miscellaneous Interfaces</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Move /interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)
|
||||
Improve python (Elliot Lee, Andrew Johnson, Greg Copeland)
|
||||
Fixed ECPG bug concerning octal numbers in single quotes (Michael)
|
||||
Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
|
||||
Bruce)
|
||||
Improve Python interface (Elliot Lee, Andrew Johnson, Greg Copeland)
|
||||
Add libpgtcl connection close event (Gerhard Hintermayer)
|
||||
Move /interfaces/libpq++ to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)
|
||||
Move /interfaces/odbc to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc)
|
||||
Move /interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)
|
||||
Move /interfaces/perl5 to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)
|
||||
Remove /bin/pgaccess from main tree, now at http://www.pgaccess.org (Bruce)
|
||||
Add pg_on_connection_loss command to libpgtcl (Gerhard Hintermayer, Tom)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Build and Install</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Fix for parallel make (Peter)
|
||||
AIX fixes for linking TCL (Andreas Zeugswetter)
|
||||
Allow plperl to build under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
|
||||
Improve MIPS compiles (Peter, Oliver Elphick)
|
||||
Require autoconf version 2.53 (Peter)
|
||||
Require readline and zlib by default in configure (Peter)
|
||||
Allow Solaris to use Intimate Shared Memory (ISM), for performance
|
||||
(Scott Brunza, P.J. Josh Rovero)
|
||||
Always enable syslog in compile, remove --enable-syslog option (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Always enable multibyte in compile, remove --enable-multibyte option (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Always enable locale in compile, remove --enable-locale option (Tatsuo)
|
||||
Fix for Win9x DLL creation (Magnus Naeslund)
|
||||
Fix for link() usage by WAL code on Win32, Netware, BeOS (Jason Tishler)
|
||||
Add sys/types.h to c.h, remove from main files (Peter, Bruce)
|
||||
Fix AIX hang on SMP machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
|
||||
AIX SMP hang fix (Tomoyuki Niijima)
|
||||
Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)
|
||||
Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)
|
||||
Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Tom)
|
||||
Bison >= 1.50 now required for developer builds
|
||||
Move src/interfaces/libpq++ to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
|
||||
Bruce)
|
||||
Move src/interfaces/odbc to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc)
|
||||
Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
|
||||
Bruce)
|
||||
Move src/interfaces/perl5 to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
|
||||
Bruce)
|
||||
Remove src/bin/pgaccess from main tree, now at
|
||||
http://www.pgaccess.org (Bruce)
|
||||
Add pg_on_connection_loss command to libpgtcl (Gerhard Hintermayer,
|
||||
Tom)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Source Code</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Fix for parallel make (Peter)
|
||||
AIX fixes for linking Tcl (Andreas Zeugswetter)
|
||||
Allow PL/Perl to build under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
|
||||
Improve MIPS compiles (Peter, Oliver Elphick)
|
||||
Require Autoconf version 2.53 (Peter)
|
||||
Require readline and zlib by default in configure (Peter)
|
||||
Allow Solaris to use Intimate Shared Memory (ISM), for performance
|
||||
(Scott Brunza, P.J. Josh Rovero)
|
||||
Always enable syslog in compile, remove --enable-syslog option
|
||||
(Tatsuo)
|
||||
Always enable multibyte in compile, remove --enable-multibyte option
|
||||
(Tatsuo)
|
||||
Always enable locale in compile, remove --enable-locale option
|
||||
(Peter)
|
||||
Fix for Win9x DLL creation (Magnus Naeslund)
|
||||
Fix for link() usage by WAL code on Win32, BeOS (Jason Tishler)
|
||||
Add sys/types.h to c.h, remove from main files (Peter, Bruce)
|
||||
Fix AIX hang on SMP machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
|
||||
AIX SMP hang fix (Tomoyuki Niijima)
|
||||
Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)
|
||||
Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)
|
||||
Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Peter, Tom)
|
||||
Bison >= 1.50 now required for developer builds
|
||||
Kerberos 5 support now builds with Heimdal (Peter)
|
||||
Add appendix in the User's Guide which lists SQL features (Thomas)
|
||||
Improve loadable module linking to use RTLD_NOW (Tom)
|
||||
New error levels WARNING, INFO, LOG, DEBUG[1-5] (Bruce)
|
||||
New src/port directory holds replace libc functions (Peter, Bruce)
|
||||
New src/port directory holds replaced libc functions (Peter, Bruce)
|
||||
New pg_namespace system catalog for schemas (Tom)
|
||||
Add pg_class.relnamespace for schemas (Tom)
|
||||
Add pg_type.typnamespace for schemas (Tom)
|
||||
@ -632,7 +671,8 @@ Add additional checks to server control file (Thomas)
|
||||
New Polish FAQ (Marcin Mazurek)
|
||||
Add Posix semaphore support (Tom)
|
||||
Document need for reindex (Bruce)
|
||||
Rename some internal identifiers to simplify Win32 compile (Jan, Katherine Ward)
|
||||
Rename some internal identifiers to simplify Win32 compile (Jan,
|
||||
Katherine Ward)
|
||||
Add documentation on computing disk space (Bruce)
|
||||
Remove KSQO from GUC (Bruce)
|
||||
Fix memory leak in rtree (Kenneth Been)
|
||||
@ -643,7 +683,7 @@ Clean up use of sprintf in favor of snprintf() (Neil, Jukka Holappa)
|
||||
Remove OPAQUE and create specific subtypes (Tom)
|
||||
Cleanups in array internal handling (Joe, Tom)
|
||||
Disallow pg_atoi('') (Bruce)
|
||||
Remove GUC parameter wal_files because WAL files are now recycled (Bruce)
|
||||
Remove parameter wal_files because WAL files are now recycled (Bruce)
|
||||
Add version numbers to heap pages (Tom)
|
||||
</literallayout>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
@ -651,24 +691,26 @@ Add version numbers to heap pages (Tom)
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<title>Contrib</title>
|
||||
<literallayout>
|
||||
Allow inet arrays in /contrib/array (Neil)
|
||||
Gist fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Neil)
|
||||
Upgrade /contrib/mysql
|
||||
Add /contrib/dbsize which shows table sizes without vacuum (Peter)
|
||||
Add /contrib/intagg, integer aggregator routines (mlw)
|
||||
Improve /contrib/Oid2name (Neil, Bruce)
|
||||
Improve /contrib/tsearch (Teodor Sigaev)
|
||||
Improve /contrib/tsearch (Oleg)
|
||||
Improve /contrib/oid2name (Neil, Bruce)
|
||||
Improve /contrib/tsearch (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)
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Cleanups of /contrib/rserver (Alexey V. Borzov)
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Update /contrib/oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)
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Update /contrib/dblink (Joe)
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Improve options supported by /contrib/vacuumlo (Mario Weilguni)
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Improvements to /contrib/intarray (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev, Andrey Oktyabrski)
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Improvements to /contrib/intarray (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev, Andrey
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Oktyabrski)
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Add /contrib/reindexdb utility (Shaun Thomas)
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Add indexing to /contrib/isbn_issn (Dan Weston)
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Add /contrib/dbmirror (Steven Singer)
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Improve /contrib/pgbench (Neil)
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Add /contrib/tablefunc table function examples (Joe)
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Add /contrib/ltree data type for tree structures (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov)
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Add /contrib/ltree data type for tree structures (Teodor Sigaev,
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Oleg Bartunov)
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Move /contrib/pg_controldata into main tree (Bruce)
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Fixes to /contrib/cube (Bruno Wolff)
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Improve /contrib/fulltextindex (Christopher)
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