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HISTORY
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Major changes in this release:
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Performance
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IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient [1]
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Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets [2]
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New multi-key hash join capability [3]
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ANSI joins are now better optimized [4]
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Faster and more powerful regular expression code [5]
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Function-inlining for simple SQL functions [6]
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IPv6
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Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address data types
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[7]
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SSL
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Major improvements in SSL performance and reliability [8]
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Index Growth Prevention
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Allow free space map to efficiently reuse empty index pages,
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and other free space management improvements. [9]
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Standards Compliance
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Implement information schema
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Support for read-only transactions
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Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
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New Client/Server Communication Protocol
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New protocol improves connection speed/reliability, and adds
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error codes, status information, a binary protocol, error
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reporting verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.
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Holdable Cursors
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Allow cursors to exist outside transactions
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Threads
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libpq and ecpg are now fully thread-safe with
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--enable-thread-safety [10]
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Contrib
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New version of full text indexing (tsearch2)
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New autovacuum tool [11]
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Array handling has been improved and moved into the main server
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[12]
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* IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient
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Note: In previous releases, IN/NOT IN subqueries were joined to the
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upper query by sequentially scanning the subquery looking for a
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join. The 7.4 code uses the same sophisticated techniques used by
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ordinary joins and so is much faster, and is now faster than EXISTS
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subqueries.
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* Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets
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Note: In previous releases, GROUP BY totals were accumulated by
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sequentially scanning the list of groups looking for a match; the
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7.4 code places GROUP BY values in hash buckets so the proper match
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can be found much quicker. This is particularly significant in
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speeding up queries that have a large number of distinct GROUP BY
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values.
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* New multi-key hash join capability
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Note: In previous releases, hash joins could only occur on
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single-column joins. This release allows multi-column hash joins.
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* ANSI joins are now better optimized
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Note: Prior releases evaluated ANSI join syntax only in the order
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specified by the query; 7.4 allows full optimization of queries
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using ANSI join syntax, meaning the optimizer considers all
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possible join orderings and chooses the most efficient.
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* Faster and more powerful regular expression code
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Note: The entire regular expression module has been replaced with a
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new version by Henry Spencer, originally written for TCL. The code
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greatly improves performance and supports several flavors of
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regular expressions.
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* Function-inlining for simple SQL functions
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Note: Simple SQL functions can now be inlined by including their
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SQL in the main query. This improves performance by preventing
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repeated calls to the SQL function --- this allows simple SQL
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functions to behave like macros.
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* Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address data types
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Note: Prior releases allowed only IPv6 connections and IP data
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types only supported IPv4 addresses. This release adds full IPv6
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support in both of these areas.
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* Major improvements in SSL performance and reliability
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Note: Several people very familiar with the SSL API have overhauled
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our SSL code to improve SSL key negotiation and error recovery.
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* Allow free space map to efficiently reuse empty index pages, and
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other free space management improvements.
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Note: In prior releases, index pages that were left empty because
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of deleted rows could only be reused by rows with index values
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similar to the original rows indexed on that page. In 7.4, VACUUM
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records empty index pages and allows them to be used for any future
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index rows.
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* Implement information schema
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* Support for read-only transactions
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* Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
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* New protocol improves connection speed/reliability, and adds error
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codes, status information, a binary protocol, error reporting
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verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.
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* Allow cursors to exist outside transactions, also called holdable
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cursors
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* libpq and ecpg are now fully thread-safe with
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--enable-thread-safety
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Note: While prior libpq releases already supported threads, this
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release improves thread safety by fixing some non-thread-safe code
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that was used in the database connection routines.
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* New version of full text indexing in /contrib/tsearch2
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* New autovacuum tool in /contrib
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Note: This new tool monitors the database statistics tables for
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INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE activity and automatically vacuums tables when
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needed.
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* Array handling has been improved and moved into the main server
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Note: Many array limitations have been removed and they behave more
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like fully-supported data types.
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_________________________________________________________________
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Migration to version 7.4
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Observe the following incompatibilities:
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* The server-side autocommit setting was removed and reimplemented
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in client applications and languages. [13]
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in client applications and languages.
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Note: Server-side autocommit was causing too many problems with
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languages and applications that wanted to control their own
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autocommit behavior so autocommit was removed from the server and
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added to individual client API's as appropriate.
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* Error message wording has changed substantially in this release,
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and error codes have been added.
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* ANSI inner joins may behave differently because they are now
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better optimized
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* A number of server variables have been renamed for clarity,
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primarily those related to logging
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* MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing [14]
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* MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing
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Note: In prior releases, FETCH 0 would fetch all remaining rows,
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and MOVE 0 would move to the end of the cursor.
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* MOVE/FETCH now returns the actual number of rows moved/fetched, or
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zero if at the beginning/end of the cursor [15]
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zero if at the beginning/end of the cursor
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Note: Prior releases would return the tuple count passed to the
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command, not the actual number of rows FETCHed or MOVEd.
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* COPY now can process carriage-return and carriage-return/line-feed
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end-of-line terminated files.
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* Literal carriage-returns and line-feeds are no longer accepted as
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VARCHAR(n) / TEXT
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* FLOAT(p) now measures 'p' in bits, not digits
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* Ambiguous date values now must match the ordering specified by
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DateStyle [16]
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DateStyle
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Note: In prior releases, a date of 10/20/03 was interpreted as a
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date in October even if the DateStyle specified the day should be
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first. In 7.4, DateStyle is honored when converting such values and
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will throw an error if the date is invalid for the current
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DateStyle.
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* The oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest() functions have been
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removed. [17]
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removed.
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Note: These functions were determined to be no longer useful.
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* 'now' will no longer work as a column default; now() or
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CURRENT_TIMESTAMP should be used instead [18]
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CURRENT_TIMESTAMP should be used instead
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Note: In prior releases, there was special code so the string 'now'
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was interpreted at "INSERT" time and not at table creation time,
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but this work around didn't cover all cases. Release 7.4 now
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requires that defaults be defined properly using the now() or the
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special value CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. These will work in all situations.
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* 'today' will no longer work as a column default; CURRENT_DATE
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should be used instead [19]
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should be used instead
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Note: Same description as above.
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* Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names
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* Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers [20]
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* Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers
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Note: This was done to improve compatibility with other database
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systems.
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Changes
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Server Operation Changes
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Server Operation
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* Allow IPv6 server connections (Nigel Kukard, Johan Jordaan, Bruce,
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Tom, Kurt Roeckx, Andrew Dunstan)
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* Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller) [21]
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* Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller)
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Note: In prior releases, certain rare SSL API error reports were
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not handled correctly. This release fixes those problems.
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gracefully.
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* SSL protocol security and performance improvements (Sean
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Chittenden) [22]
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* Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom) [23]
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Chittenden)
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Note: SSL key renegotiation was happening too frequently, causing
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poor SSL performance. Also, initial key handling was improved.
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* Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom)
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Note: This allows easier debugging of deadlock situations.
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* Update "/tmp" socket mod. times regularly to avoid their removal
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(Tom) [24]
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(Tom)
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Note: This should help prevent "/tmp" directory cleaner
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administration scripts from removing server socket files.
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* Enable PAM for MAC OS X (Aaron Hillegass)
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* Make btree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom) [25]
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* Make btree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom)
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Note: In prior releases, under certain rare cases, a server crash
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could cause btree indexes to become corrupt. This release removes
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those last few rare cases.
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* Allow btree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom)
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* Fix inconsistent index lookups during split of first root page
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(Tom) [26]
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(Tom)
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Note: In prior releases, when a single-page index split into two
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page, there was a brief period when another database session would
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miss seeing an index entry. This failure was possible primarly on
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multi-cpu machines. This release fixes that rare failure case.
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* Improve free space map allocation logic (Tom)
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* Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom)
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[27]
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Note: In prior releases, the free space map was not saved when the
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postmaster was stopped, so newly started servers has no free space
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information. This release saves the free space map, which is loaded
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when the server is restarted.
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* Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter)
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* Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil)
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* New code to detect corrupt disk pages; erase with
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detail (Tom)
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_________________________________________________________________
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Performance
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Performance Changes
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* Add hashing for GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)
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* Allow nested loops to be smarter about multicolumn indexes (Tom)
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* Allow multi-key hash joins (Tom)
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* Improve constant folding (Tom)
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* Add ability to inline simple SQL functions (Tom)
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* Reduce memory usage for queries using complex functions (Tom) [28]
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* Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom) [29]
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* Reduce memory usage for queries using complex functions (Tom)
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Note: In prior releases, functions returning allocated memory would
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not free it until the query completed. This release allows the
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freeing of function-allocated memory when the function call
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completes, reducing the total memory used by functions.
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* Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom)
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Note: There were several inefficiencies in the way the GEQO
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optimizer managed potential query paths. This release fixes this.
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* Allow IN/NOT IN to be handled via hash tables (Tom)
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* Improve NOT IN (subquery) performance (Tom)
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* Allow most IN subqueries to be processed as joins (Tom)
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* Allow the postmaster to preload libraries using preload_libraries
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(Joe) [30]
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(Joe)
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Note: For shared libraries that require a long time to load, this
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option is available so the library can be pre-loaded in the
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postmaster and inherited by all database sessions.
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* Improve optimizer cost computations, particularly for subqueries
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(Tom)
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* Avoid sort when subquery ORDER BY matches upper query (Tom)
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* Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom)
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* Improve backend startup time (Tom)
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Note: The new network protocol requires fewer network packets to
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start a database session.
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* Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)
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* Improve speed of col IN (const, const, const, ...) (Tom)
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* Fix hash indexes which were broken in rare cases (Tom)
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* Improve hash index concurrency and speed (Tom) [31]
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* Improve hash index concurrency and speed (Tom)
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Note: Prior releases suffered from poor hash index performance,
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particularly for high concurrency situations. This release fixes
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that, and the development group is interested in reports comparing
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btree and hash index performance.
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* Align shared buffers on 32-byte boundary for copy speed
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improvement (Manfred Spraul) [32]
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improvement (Manfred Spraul)
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Note: Certain CPU's perform faster data copies when addresses are
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32-bit aligned.
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* The NUMERIC datatype has been reimplemented for better performance
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(Tom) [33]
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(Tom)
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Note: NUMERIC used to be stored in base-100. The new code uses
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base-10000, for significantly better performance.
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Server Configuration
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Server Configuration Changes
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* Rename server parameter server_min_messages to log_min_messages
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(Bruce) [34]
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(Bruce)
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Note: This was done so most parameters that control the server logs
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being with log_.
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* Rename show_*_stats to log_*_stats (Bruce)
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* Rename show_source_port to log_source_port (Bruce)
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* Rename hostname_lookup to log_hostname (Bruce)
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* Add checkpoint_warning to warn of excessive checkpointing (Bruce)
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Note: In prior releases, it was difficult to determine if
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checkpoint was happening too frequently. This feature adds a
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warning to the server logs when excessive checkpointing happens.
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* New read-only server parameters for localization (Tom)
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* Change debug server log messages to output as DEBUG rather than
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LOG (Bruce)
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* Prevent server log variables from being turned off by non-super
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users (Bruce)
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Note: This is a security feature so non-super-users can't disable
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logging that was enabled by the administrator.
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* log_min_messages/client_min_messages now controls debug_* output
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(Bruce)
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* Add Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell)
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Note: This centralizes client debug information so all debug output
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can be sent to either the client or server logs.
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* Add OS X Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell)
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Note: This allows OS X machines to query the network for available
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PostgreSQL servers.
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* Add ability to print only slow statements using
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log_min_duration_statement (Christopher)
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Note: This is an often requested debugging feature that allows
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administrators to see only slow queries in their server logs.
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* Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew
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Dunstan)
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Note: This allows administrators to merge the host IP address and
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netmask fields into a single CIDR field in pg_hba.conf.
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* New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom)
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* New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error
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detail (Tom)
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Note: This works with the new error reporting feature to supply
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additional error information like hints, file names and line
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numbers.
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* postgres --describe-config now dumps server config variables
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(Aizaz Ahmed, Peter)
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Note: This option is useful for administration tools that need to
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know the configuration variable names and their minimum, maximums,
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defaults, and descriptions.
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* Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if
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possible (Tom)
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Note: Prior versions defaulted to 64 shared buffers so PostgreSQL
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would start on even old computers. This release tests the amount of
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shared memory supported by the hardware and sizes it accordingly.
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Of course, users are still encouraged to evaluate their resource
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load and size shared_buffers accordingly.
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* Add new columns in pg_settings: context, type, source, min_val,
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max_val (Joe)
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* New pg_hba.conf 'hostnossl' to prevent SSL connections (Jon
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Jensen)
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Note: In prior releases, there was no way to prevent SSL
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connections if both the client and server supported SSL. This
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option allows that capability.
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* Remove geqo_random_seed server parameter (Tom)
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Queries
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Query Changes
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* New SQL-standard information schema (Peter)
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* Add read-only transactions (Peter)
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* Add server variable regex_flavor to control regular expression
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* Change EXECUTE INTO to CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE (Peter)
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_________________________________________________________________
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Object Manipulation
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Object Manipulation Changes
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* Make CREATE SEQUENCE grammar more SQL1999 standards compliant
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(Neil)
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* Add FOR EACH STATEMENT statement-level triggers (Neil)
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* Add WITH GRANT OPTION clause to GRANT, per SQL spec (Peter)
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Utility Commands
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Utility Command Changes
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* Add ON COMMIT clause to CREATE TABLE for temp tables (Gavin)
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* Allow cursors outside transactions using WITH HOLD (Neil)
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* MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing (Bruce)
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* Long options for pg_dump are now available on all platforms
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Data Types and Functions
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Data Type and Function Changes
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* New extra_float_digits server parameter to control float precision
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display (Pedro Ferreira, Tom)
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* Allow +1300 as a numeric timezone specifier, for FJST (Tom)
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* Allow time to be specified as '040506' or '0405' (Tom)
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Server-side Languages
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Server-side Language Changes
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* Prevent PL/pgSQL crash when RETURN NEXT is used on a zero-row
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record var. (Tom)
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* Make PL/python's spi_execute interface handle NULLs properly
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the parameter type list (Jan)
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Psql
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Psql Changes
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* Add "\pset pager always" to always use pager (Greg)
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* Improve tab completion (Rod, Ross Reedstrom, Ian Barwick)
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* Reorder \? help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce)
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Libpq
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Libpq Changes
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* Allow PQcmdTuples() to return row counts for MOVE and FETCH (Neil)
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* Add PQfreemem() for freeing memory on Win32, suggest for NOTIFY
|
||||
(Bruce)
|
||||
|
|
@ -433,8 +580,8 @@ Libpq
|
|||
perform Bind/Execute of previously prepared statements (Tom)
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
JDBC
|
||||
|
||||
JDBC Changes
|
||||
|
||||
* Allow setNull on updateable resultsets
|
||||
* Allow executeBatch on a prepared statement (Barry)
|
||||
* Support SSL connections (Barry)
|
||||
|
|
@ -442,8 +589,8 @@ JDBC
|
|||
* Add refcursor support (Nic Ferrier)
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Miscellaneous Interfaces
|
||||
|
||||
Miscellaneous Interface Changes
|
||||
|
||||
* Prevent possible memory leak or core dump during libpgtcl shutdown
|
||||
(Tom)
|
||||
* Add ecpg Informix compatibility (Michael)
|
||||
|
|
@ -453,8 +600,8 @@ Miscellaneous Interfaces
|
|||
* Move python client interface to http://www.pygresql.org (Marc)
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Source Code
|
||||
|
||||
Source Code Changes
|
||||
|
||||
* Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result
|
||||
files (Tom)
|
||||
* Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max)
|
||||
|
|
@ -481,8 +628,8 @@ Source Code
|
|||
* Generate a compile error if spinlock code is not found (Bruce)
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Contrib
|
||||
|
||||
Contrib Changes
|
||||
|
||||
* Change dbmirror license to BSD
|
||||
* Improve earthdistance (Bruno Wolff III)
|
||||
* Portability improvements to pgcrypto (Marko Kreen)
|
||||
|
|
@ -510,8 +657,8 @@ Contrib
|
|||
* Remove array module because features now included by default (Joe)
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Other Uncategorized
|
||||
|
||||
Other Uncategorized Changes
|
||||
|
||||
* "DATESTYLE" can now be set to DMY, YMD, or MDY to specify input
|
||||
field order
|
||||
* Input date order must now be YYYY-MM-DD (with 4-digit year) or
|
||||
|
|
@ -4709,171 +4856,3 @@ The following bugs have been fixed in postgres95-beta-0.02:
|
|||
Release date: 1995-05-01
|
||||
|
||||
Initial release.
|
||||
|
||||
Notes
|
||||
|
||||
[1]
|
||||
|
||||
In previous releases, IN/NOT IN subqueries were joined to the upper
|
||||
query by sequentially scanning the subquery looking for a join. The
|
||||
7.4 code uses the same sophisticated techniques used by ordinary joins
|
||||
and so is much faster, and is now faster than EXISTS subqueries.
|
||||
[2]
|
||||
|
||||
In previous releases, GROUP BY totals were accumulated by sequentially
|
||||
scanning the list of groups looking for a match; the 7.4 code places
|
||||
GROUP BY values in hash buckets so the proper match can be found much
|
||||
quicker. This is particularly significant in speeding up queries that
|
||||
have a large number of distinct GROUP BY values.
|
||||
[3]
|
||||
|
||||
In previous releases, hash joins could only occur on single-column
|
||||
joins. This release allows multi-column hash joins.
|
||||
[4]
|
||||
|
||||
Prior releases evaluated ANSI join syntax only in the order specified
|
||||
by the query; 7.4 allows full optimization of queries using ANSI join
|
||||
syntax, meaning the optimizer considers all possible join orderings
|
||||
and chooses the most efficient.
|
||||
[5]
|
||||
|
||||
The entire regular expression module has been replaced with a new
|
||||
version by Henry Spencer, originally written for TCL. The code greatly
|
||||
improves performance and supports several flavors of regular
|
||||
expressions.
|
||||
[6]
|
||||
|
||||
Simple SQL functions can now be inlined by including their SQL in the
|
||||
main query. This improves performance by preventing repeated calls to
|
||||
the SQL function --- this allows simple SQL functions to behave like
|
||||
macros.
|
||||
[7]
|
||||
|
||||
Prior releases allowed only IPv6 connections and IP data types only
|
||||
supported IPv4 addresses. This release adds full IPv6 support in both
|
||||
of these areas.
|
||||
[8]
|
||||
|
||||
Several people very familiar with the SSL API have overhauled our SSL
|
||||
code to improve SSL key negotiation and error recovery.
|
||||
[9]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, index pages that were left empty because of deleted
|
||||
rows could only be reused by rows with index values similar to the
|
||||
original rows indexed on that page. In 7.4, VACUUM records empty index
|
||||
pages and allows them to be used for any future index rows.
|
||||
[10]
|
||||
|
||||
While prior libpq releases already supported threads, this release
|
||||
improves thread safety by fixing some non-thread-safe code that was
|
||||
used in the database connection routines.
|
||||
[11]
|
||||
|
||||
This new tool monitors the database statistics tables for
|
||||
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE activity and automatically vacuums tables when
|
||||
needed.
|
||||
[12]
|
||||
|
||||
Many array limitations have been removed and they behave more like
|
||||
fully-supported data types.
|
||||
[13]
|
||||
|
||||
Server-side autocommit was causing too many problems with languages
|
||||
and applications that wanted to control their own autocommit behavior
|
||||
so autocommit was removed from the server and added to individual
|
||||
client API's as appropriate.
|
||||
[14]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, FETCH 0 would fetch all remaining rows, and MOVE 0
|
||||
would move to the end of the cursor.
|
||||
[15]
|
||||
|
||||
Prior releases would return the tuple count passed to the command, not
|
||||
the actual number of rows FETCHed or MOVEd.
|
||||
[16]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, a date of 10/20/03 was interpreted as a date in
|
||||
October even if the DateStyle specified the day should be first. In
|
||||
7.4, DateStyle is honored when converting such values and will throw
|
||||
an error if the date is invalid for the current DateStyle.
|
||||
[17]
|
||||
|
||||
These functions were determined to be no longer useful.
|
||||
[18]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, there was special code so the string 'now' was
|
||||
interpreted at "INSERT" time and not at table creation time, but this
|
||||
work around didn't cover all cases. Release 7.4 now requires that
|
||||
defaults be defined properly using the now() or the special value
|
||||
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. These will work in all situations.
|
||||
[19]
|
||||
|
||||
Same description as above.
|
||||
[20]
|
||||
|
||||
This was done to improve compatibility with other database systems.
|
||||
[21]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, certain rare SSL API error reports were not handled
|
||||
correctly. This release fixes those problems. gracefully.
|
||||
[22]
|
||||
|
||||
SSL key renegotiation was happening too frequently, causing poor SSL
|
||||
performance. Also, initial key handling was improved.
|
||||
[23]
|
||||
|
||||
This allows easier debugging of deadlock situations.
|
||||
[24]
|
||||
|
||||
This should help prevent "/tmp" directory cleaner administration
|
||||
scripts from removing server socket files.
|
||||
[25]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, under certain rare cases, a server crash could
|
||||
cause btree indexes to become corrupt. This release removes those last
|
||||
few rare cases.
|
||||
[26]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, when a single-page index split into two page, there
|
||||
was a brief period when another database session would miss seeing an
|
||||
index entry. This failure was possible primarly on multi-cpu machines.
|
||||
This release fixes that rare failure case.
|
||||
[27]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, the free space map was not saved when the
|
||||
postmaster was stopped, so newly started servers has no free space
|
||||
information. This release saves the free space map, which is loaded
|
||||
when the server is restarted.
|
||||
[28]
|
||||
|
||||
In prior releases, functions returning allocated memory would not free
|
||||
it until the query completed. This release allows the freeing of
|
||||
function-allocated memory when the function call completes, reducing
|
||||
the total memory used by functions.
|
||||
[29]
|
||||
|
||||
There were several inefficiencies in the way the GEQO optimizer
|
||||
managed potential query paths. This release fixes this.
|
||||
[30]
|
||||
|
||||
For shared libraries that require a long time to load, this option is
|
||||
available so the library can be pre-loaded in the postmaster and
|
||||
inherited by all database sessions.
|
||||
[31]
|
||||
|
||||
Prior releases suffered from poor hash index performance, particularly
|
||||
for high concurrency situations. This release fixes that, and the
|
||||
development group is interested in reports comparing btree and hash
|
||||
index performance.
|
||||
[32]
|
||||
|
||||
Certain CPU's perform faster data copies when addresses are 32-bit
|
||||
aligned.
|
||||
[33]
|
||||
|
||||
NUMERIC used to be stored in base-100. The new code uses base-10000,
|
||||
for significantly better performance.
|
||||
[34]
|
||||
|
||||
This was done so most parameters that control the server logs being
|
||||
with log_.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
|||
<!--
|
||||
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.226 2003/10/30 20:31:24 momjian Exp $
|
||||
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.227 2003/10/30 20:49:47 momjian Exp $
|
||||
-->
|
||||
|
||||
<appendix id="release">
|
||||
|
|
@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.226 2003/10/30 20:31:24 mo
|
|||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In previous releases, IN/NOT IN subqueries were joined to the
|
||||
upper query by sequentially scanning the subquery looking for
|
||||
|
|
@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.226 2003/10/30 20:31:24 mo
|
|||
used by ordinary joins and so is much faster, and is now faster
|
||||
than EXISTS subqueries.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In previous releases, GROUP BY totals were accumulated by
|
||||
sequentially scanning the list of groups looking for a match;
|
||||
|
|
@ -35,76 +35,76 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.226 2003/10/30 20:31:24 mo
|
|||
significant in speeding up queries that have a large
|
||||
number of distinct GROUP BY values.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> New multi-key hash join capability</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In previous releases, hash joins could only occur on single-column
|
||||
joins. This release allows multi-column hash joins.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> ANSI joins are now better optimized</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prior releases evaluated ANSI join syntax only in the order
|
||||
specified by the query; 7.4 allows full optimization of
|
||||
queries using ANSI join syntax, meaning the optimizer considers
|
||||
all possible join orderings and chooses the most efficient.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Faster and more powerful regular expression code
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The entire regular expression module has been replaced with a new
|
||||
version by Henry Spencer, originally written for TCL. The code
|
||||
greatly improves performance and supports several flavors
|
||||
of regular expressions.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Function-inlining for simple SQL functions</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Simple SQL functions can now be inlined by including their SQL
|
||||
in the main query. This improves performance by preventing
|
||||
repeated calls to the SQL function --- this allows simple
|
||||
SQL functions to behave like macros.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address
|
||||
data types</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prior releases allowed only IPv6 connections and IP data types only
|
||||
supported IPv4 addresses. This release adds full IPv6 support in
|
||||
both of these areas.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Major improvements in SSL performance and
|
||||
reliability</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Several people very familiar with the SSL API have overhauled our
|
||||
SSL code to improve SSL key negotiation and error recovery.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Allow free space map to efficiently reuse empty index
|
||||
pages, and other free space management improvements.</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, index pages that were left empty because of
|
||||
deleted rows could only be reused by rows with index values similar
|
||||
|
|
@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ pages, and other free space management improvements.</para>
|
|||
empty index pages and allows them to be used for any future index
|
||||
rows.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para>Implement information schema</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -122,51 +122,51 @@ pages, and other free space management improvements.</para>
|
|||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para>Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
|
||||
</para></glossdef>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> New protocol improves connection speed/reliability,
|
||||
and adds error codes, status information, a binary protocol, error
|
||||
reporting verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.</para></glossdef>
|
||||
reporting verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><glossdef><para> Allow cursors to exist outside transactions,
|
||||
<listitem><para> Allow cursors to exist outside transactions,
|
||||
also called holdable cursors
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><glossdef><para> libpq and ecpg are now fully thread-safe with
|
||||
<listitem><para> libpq and ecpg are now fully thread-safe with
|
||||
--enable-thread-safety</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
While prior libpq releases already supported threads, this release
|
||||
improves thread safety by fixing some non-thread-safe code that
|
||||
was used in the database connection routines.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> New version of full text indexing in /contrib/tsearch2</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> New autovacuum tool in /contrib</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This new tool monitors the database statistics tables for
|
||||
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE activity and automatically vacuums tables when
|
||||
needed.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para> Array handling has been improved and moved into the main
|
||||
server</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Many array limitations have been removed and they behave more like
|
||||
fully-supported data types.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
</itemizedlist></para></sect2>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -179,14 +179,14 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
<listitem><para> The server-side autocommit setting was removed and reimplemented
|
||||
in client applications and languages.</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Server-side autocommit was causing too many problems with
|
||||
languages and applications that wanted to control their own
|
||||
autocommit behavior so autocommit was removed from the server
|
||||
and added to individual client API's as appropriate.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> Error message wording has changed substantially in this release,
|
||||
and error codes have been added.</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
|
@ -194,21 +194,21 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
<listitem><para> A number of server variables have been renamed for
|
||||
clarity, primarily those related to logging</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, FETCH 0 would fetch all remaining rows, and
|
||||
MOVE 0 would move to the end of the cursor.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> MOVE/FETCH now returns the actual number of rows moved/fetched, or zero
|
||||
if at the beginning/end of the cursor</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prior releases would return the tuple count passed to the
|
||||
command, not the actual number of rows FETCHed or MOVEd.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> COPY now can process carriage-return and
|
||||
carriage-return/line-feed end-of-line terminated files.</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
|
@ -219,29 +219,29 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
<type>VARCHAR(n)</type> / <type>TEXT</type></para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> <function>FLOAT(p)</function> now measures 'p' in bits, not digits</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> Ambiguous date values now must match the ordering specified by DateStyle</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, a date of <literal>10/20/03</> was
|
||||
interpreted as a date in October even if the
|
||||
<varname>DateStyle</> specified the day should be first. In
|
||||
7.4, <varname>DateStyle</> is honored when converting such
|
||||
values and will throw an error if the date is invalid for the
|
||||
current <varname>DateStyle</>.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para> The <function>oidrand()</function>, <function>oidsrand()</function>,
|
||||
and <function>userfntest()</function> functions have been removed.</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
These functions were determined to be no longer useful.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para> <literal>'now'</literal> will no longer work as a column default; <function>now()</> or
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<function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</> should be used instead</para>
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<sect3>
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<para>
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<note>
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<para>
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In prior releases, there was special code so the string
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<literal>'now'</literal> was interpreted at
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<command>INSERT</> time and not at table creation time, but
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@ -250,25 +250,25 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
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<function>now()</> or the special value
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<function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</>. These will work in all
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situations.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para> <literal>'today'</literal> will no longer work as a column default; <function>CURRENT_DATE</>
|
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should be used instead</para>
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<sect3>
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<para>
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<note>
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<para>
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Same description as above.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para> Dollar sign (<literal>$</>) is no longer allowed in operator names</para></listitem>
|
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<listitem><para> Dollar sign (<literal>$</>) can be a non-first character in identifiers</para>
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<sect3>
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<para>
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<note>
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||||
<para>
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||||
This was done to improve compatibility with other database
|
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systems.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</para>
|
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</note>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist></para></sect2>
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@ -277,68 +277,68 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
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<listitem><para>Allow IPv6 server connections (Nigel Kukard, Johan Jordaan, Bruce, Tom, Kurt
|
||||
Roeckx, Andrew Dunstan)</para></listitem>
|
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<listitem><para>Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller)
|
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<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, certain rare SSL API error reports were not
|
||||
handled correctly. This release fixes those problems.
|
||||
gracefully.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>SSL protocol security and performance improvements (Sean Chittenden)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
SSL key renegotiation was happening too frequently, causing poor SSL
|
||||
performance. Also, initial key handling was improved.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This allows easier debugging of deadlock situations.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Update <filename>/tmp</filename> socket mod. times regularly to avoid their removal (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This should help prevent <filename>/tmp</filename> directory cleaner
|
||||
administration scripts from removing server socket files.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Enable PAM for MAC OS X (Aaron Hillegass)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Make btree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, under certain rare cases, a server crash could
|
||||
cause btree indexes to become corrupt. This release removes those
|
||||
last few rare cases.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Allow btree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Fix inconsistent index lookups during split of first root page (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, when a single-page index split into two page,
|
||||
there was a brief period when another database session would miss
|
||||
seeing an index entry. This failure was possible primarly on
|
||||
multi-cpu machines. This release fixes that rare failure case.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve free space map allocation logic (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, the free space map was not saved when the
|
||||
postmaster was stopped, so newly started servers has no free space
|
||||
information. This release saves the free space map, which is loaded
|
||||
when the server is restarted.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil)</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
|
@ -361,34 +361,34 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
<listitem><para>Improve constant folding (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add ability to inline simple SQL functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage for queries using complex functions (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, functions returning allocated memory would
|
||||
not free it until the query completed. This release allows the
|
||||
freeing of function-allocated memory when the function call
|
||||
completes, reducing the total memory used by functions.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
There were several inefficiencies in the way the GEQO optimizer
|
||||
managed potential query paths. This release fixes this.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Allow IN/NOT IN to be handled via hash tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve NOT IN (subquery) performance (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Allow most IN subqueries to be processed as joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Allow the postmaster to preload libraries using preload_libraries (Joe)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
For shared libraries that require a long time to load, this option
|
||||
is available so the library can be pre-loaded in the postmaster and
|
||||
inherited by all database sessions.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve optimizer cost computations, particularly for subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Avoid sort when subquery ORDER BY matches upper query (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
|
@ -400,41 +400,41 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
<listitem><para>Use faster and more powerful regular expression code from TCL (Henry Spencer, Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve backend startup time (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The new network protocol requires fewer network packets to start a
|
||||
database session.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve speed of col IN (const, const, const, ...) (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Fix hash indexes which were broken in rare cases (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Improve hash index concurrency and speed (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prior releases suffered from poor hash index performance,
|
||||
particularly for high concurrency situations. This release fixes
|
||||
that, and the development group is interested in reports comparing
|
||||
btree and hash index performance.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Align shared buffers on 32-byte boundary for copy speed improvement (Manfred Spraul)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Certain CPU's perform faster data copies when addresses are 32-bit
|
||||
aligned.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>The NUMERIC datatype has been reimplemented for better performance (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
NUMERIC used to be stored in base-100. The new code uses base-10000,
|
||||
for significantly better performance.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
</itemizedlist></sect2>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -442,88 +442,88 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Rename server parameter server_min_messages to log_min_messages (Bruce)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This was done so most parameters that control the server logs being
|
||||
with <literal>log_</>.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Rename show_*_stats to log_*_stats (Bruce)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Rename show_source_port to log_source_port (Bruce)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Rename hostname_lookup to log_hostname (Bruce)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add checkpoint_warning to warn of excessive checkpointing (Bruce)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, it was difficult to determine if checkpoint was
|
||||
happening too frequently. This feature adds a warning to the server
|
||||
logs when excessive checkpointing happens.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>New read-only server parameters for localization (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Change debug server log messages to output as DEBUG rather than LOG (Bruce)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Prevent server log variables from being turned off by non-super users (Bruce)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This is a security feature so non-super-users can't disable logging
|
||||
that was enabled by the administrator.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>log_min_messages/client_min_messages now controls debug_* output (Bruce)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This centralizes client debug information so all debug output can
|
||||
be sent to either the client or server logs.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add OS X Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This allows OS X machines to query the network for available
|
||||
PostgreSQL servers.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add ability to print only slow statements using log_min_duration_statement
|
||||
(Christopher)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This is an often requested debugging feature that allows administrators to
|
||||
see only slow queries in their server logs.</para>
|
||||
see only slow queries in their server logs.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This allows administrators to merge the host IP address and netmask
|
||||
fields into a single CIDR field in pg_hba.conf.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error detail (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This works with the new error reporting feature to supply additional
|
||||
error information like hints, file names and line numbers.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>postgres --describe-config now dumps server config variables (Aizaz Ahmed, Peter)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This option is useful for administration tools that need to know the
|
||||
configuration variable names and their minimum, maximums, defaults,
|
||||
and descriptions.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if possible (Tom)</para>
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prior versions defaulted to 64 shared buffers so PostgreSQL would
|
||||
start on even old computers. This release tests the amount of shared
|
||||
|
|
@ -531,17 +531,17 @@ required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
|
|||
course, users are still encouraged to evaluate their resource load
|
||||
and size shared_buffers accordingly.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Add new columns in pg_settings: context, type, source, min_val, max_val (Joe)</para></listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>New pg_hba.conf 'hostnossl' to prevent SSL connections (Jon Jensen)
|
||||
<sect3>
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In prior releases, there was no way to prevent SSL connections if
|
||||
both the client and server supported SSL. This option allows that
|
||||
capability.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</sect3>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
<listitem><para>Remove geqo_random_seed server parameter (Tom)</para></listitem>
|
||||
</itemizedlist></sect2>
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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