more, and standard_conforming_strings less, because in the future non-E
strings will not treat backslashes specially.
Also use E'' strings where backslashes are used in examples. (The
existing examples would have drawn warnings.)
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
- Add new SQL command SET XML OPTION (also available via regular GUC) to
control the DOCUMENT vs. CONTENT option in implicit parsing and
serialization operations.
- Subtle corrections in the handling of the standalone property in
xmlroot().
- Allow xmlroot() to work on content fragments.
- Subtle corrections in the handling of the version property in
xmlconcat().
- Code refactoring for producing XML declarations.
discussions.
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< * Alvaro is Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
< * Andrew is Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
< * Bruce is Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> of EnterpriseDB
< * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> of
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< * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> of The Cain Gang Ltd.
< * David is David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
< * Fabien is Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
< * Gavin is Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> of Alcove Systems Engineering
< * Greg is Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
< * Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of Afilias, Inc.
< * Joe is Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
< * Karel is Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
< * Magnus is Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
< * Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> of PostgreSQL, Inc.
< * Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>
< * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> of Credativ
< * Neil is Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
< * Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
< * Pavel is Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com>
< * Peter is Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
< * Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> of Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd.
< * Rod is Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
< * Simon is Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
< * Stephan is Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
< * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> of SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
< * Teodor is Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
< * Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> of Red Hat
FAMILY; and add FAMILY option to CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to allow adding a
class to a pre-existing family. Per previous discussion. Man, what a
tedious lot of cutting and pasting ...
columns procost and prorows, to allow simple user adjustment of the estimated
cost of a function call, as well as control of the estimated number of rows
returned by a set-returning function. We might eventually wish to extend this
to allow function-specific estimation routines, but there seems to be
consensus that we should try a simple constant estimate first. In particular
this provides a relatively simple way to control the order in which different
WHERE clauses are applied in a plan node, which is a Good Thing in view of the
fact that the recent EquivalenceClass planner rewrite made that much less
predictable than before.
provide just a boolean 'amcanorder', instead of fields that specify the
sort operator strategy numbers. We have decided to require ordering-capable
AMs to use btree-compatible strategy numbers, so the old fields are
overkill (and indeed misleading about what's allowed).
match the postgresql.conf file. Also add units to descriptions that
lacked them. Wording improvements. Mention pg_settings.unit as the way
to find the default units for setting.
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
representation of equivalence classes of variables. This is an extensive
rewrite, but it brings a number of benefits:
* planner no longer fails in the presence of "incomplete" operator families
that don't offer operators for every possible combination of datatypes.
* avoid generating and then discarding redundant equality clauses.
* remove bogus assumption that derived equalities always use operators
named "=".
* mergejoins can work with a variety of sort orders (e.g., descending) now,
instead of tying each mergejoinable operator to exactly one sort order.
* better recognition of redundant sort columns.
* can make use of equalities appearing underneath an outer join.
Bruce Momjian