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<appendix id="release">
 <title>Release Notes</title>
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  <sect1 id="release-8-1-2">
   <title>Release 8.1.2</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2006-01-09</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.1.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.1.2</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix for protocol-level describe portal statements issued
outside a transaction (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix character set sorting for locales that consider
different character combinations to have the same sorting, e.g.
Hungarian. (Tom) </para><para>This might require <command>REINDEX</> in
those locales to fix  existing indexes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Allow more flexible relocation of installation
directories (Tom)</para> <para>Previous releases supported relocation
only if all directories were the same except the last
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component.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Prevent crashed caused by the use of
<literal>ISO-8859-5</> and <literal>ISO-8859-9</> encodings
(Tatsuo)</para></listitem>

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<listitem><para>Fix bug in strpos() and regular expression handling in
certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets (Tatsuo)
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</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bug where COPY CSV mode considered any
<literal>\.</> to terminate the copy data</para> <para>The new code
requires <literal>\.</> to appear alone on a line, as previously
documented.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Have COPY output a literal data value of <literal>\.</>
in double-quotes to prevent it from being interpreted as the end-of-data
marker (Bruce)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Various fixes for queries returning <literal>RECORD</>s
(Tom) </para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix processing of <filename>postgresql.conf</> so a
final line with no newline is processed properly (Tom)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix autovacuum crash when processing expression indexes
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <filename>/contrib/dblink</> to throw an error
when the number of columns specified is different from those returned
by the query (Joe)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Set <literal>LC_XXX</> variables to prevent problems
with <application>plperl</> processing (Tom)</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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  <sect1 id="release-8-1-1">
   <title>Release 8.1.1</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-12-12</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.0.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.1.1</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

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<listitem><para>Fix incorrect optimizations of outer-join conditions
(Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix problems with wrong reported column names in cases
involving sub-selects flattened by the optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix update failures in scenarios involving CHECK constraints,
toasted columns, <emphasis>and</> indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix bgwriter problems after recovering from errors
(Tom)</para>
<para>
The background writer was found to leak buffer pins after write errors.
While not fatal in itself, this might lead to mysterious blockages of
later VACUUM commands.
</para>
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<listitem><para>Prevent failure if client sends Bind protocol message
when current transaction is already aborted</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> and <filename>/contrib/ltree</>
fixes (Teodor)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix problems with translated error messages in
languages that require word reordering, such as Turkish; also problems with
unexpected truncation of output strings and wrong display of the smallest
possible bigint value (Andrew, Tom)</para>
<para>
These problems only appeared on platforms that were using our
<filename>port/snprintf.c</> code, which includes BSD variants if
<literal>--enable-nls</> was given, and perhaps others.  In addition,
a different form of the translated-error-message problem could appear
on Windows depending on which version of <filename>libintl</> was used.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Re-allow <literal>AM</>/<literal>PM</>, <literal>HH</>,
<literal>HH12</>, and <literal>D</> format specifiers for
<function>to_char(time)</> and <function>to_char(interval)</>.
(<function>to_char(interval)</> should probably use
<literal>HH24</>.) (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>AIX, HPUX, and MSVC compile fixes (Tom, Hiroshi 
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Saito)</para></listitem>

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<listitem><para>Optimizer improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Retry file reads and writes after Windows
NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES error (Qingqing Zhou)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Prevent <application>autovacuum</> from crashing during
ANALYZE of expression index (Alvaro)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix problems with ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temp
tables</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix problems when a trigger alters the output of a SELECT
DISTINCT query</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Add 8.1.0 release note item on how to migrate invalid
<literal>UTF-8</> byte sequences (Paul Lindner)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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  <sect1 id="release-8-1">
   <title>Release 8.1</title>

   <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
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    <simpara>2005-11-08</simpara>
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   </note>
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   <sect2>
    <title>Overview</title>
 
    <para>
     Major changes in this release:
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    </para>

    <variablelist>

     <varlistentry>
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      <term>
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       Improve concurrent access to the shared buffer cache (Tom)
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      </term>
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      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        Access to the shared buffer cache was identified as a
        significant scalability problem, particularly on multi-CPU
        systems. In this release, the way that locking is done in the
        buffer manager has been overhauled to reduce lock contention
        and improve scalability. The buffer manager has also been
        changed to use a <quote>clock sweep</quote> replacement
        policy.
       </para>
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Allow index scans to use an intermediate in-memory bitmap (Tom)
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      </term>
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      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        In previous releases, only a single index could be used to do
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        lookups on a table. With this feature, if a query has
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        <command>WHERE tab.col1 = 4 and tab.col2 = 9</>, and there is
        no multicolumn index on <literal>col1</> and <literal>col2</>,
        but there is an index on <literal>col1</> and another on
        <literal>col2</>, it is possible to search both indexes and
        combine the results in memory, then do heap fetches for only
        the rows matching both the <literal>col1</> and
        <literal>col2</> restrictions. This is very useful in
        environments that have a lot of unstructured queries where it
        is impossible to create indexes that match all possible access
        conditions.  Bitmap scans are useful even with a single index,
        as they reduce the amount of random access needed; a bitmap
        index scan is efficient for retrieving fairly large fractions
        of the complete table, whereas plain index scans are not.
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       </para>
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Add two-phase commit (Heikki Linnakangas, Alvaro, Tom)
      </term>
      
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Two-phase commit allows transactions to be "prepared" on several
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        computers, and once all computers have successfully prepared
        their transactions (none failed), all transactions can be
        committed. Even if a machine crashes after a prepare, the
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        prepared transaction can be committed after the machine is
        restarted. New syntax includes <command>PREPARE TRANSACTION</> and
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        <command>COMMIT/ROLLBACK PREPARED</>. A new system view
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        <literal>pg_prepared_xacts</> has also been added.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Create a new role system that replaces users and groups 
       (Stephen Frost)
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      </term>
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       <para>
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        Roles are a combination of users and groups. Like users, they
        can have login capability, and like groups, a role can have
        other roles as members. Roles basically remove the distinction
        between users and groups. For example, a role can:
       </para>

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         <para>
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           Have login capability (optionally)
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         </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>
          Own objects
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        </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>
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          Hold access permissions for database objects
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         </para>
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         <para>
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          Inherit permissions from other roles it is a member of
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         </para>
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        Once a user logs into a role, she obtains capabilities of
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        the login role plus any inherited roles, and can use
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        <command>SET ROLE</> to switch to other roles she is a member of.
        This feature is a generalization of the SQL standard's concept of
        roles.
        This change also replaces <structname>pg_shadow</> and 
        <structname>pg_group</> by new role-capable catalogs 
        <structname>pg_authid</> and <structname>pg_auth_members</>. The old
        tables are redefined as read-only views on the new role tables.
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       </para>
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Automatically use indexes for <function>MIN()</> and
       <function>MAX()</> (Tom)
      </term>
 
      <listitem>
       <para>
        In previous releases, the only way to use an index for
        <function>MIN()</> or <function>MAX()</> was to rewrite the
        query as <command>SELECT col FROM tab ORDER BY col LIMIT 1</>.
        Index usage now happens automatically.
       </para> 
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Move <filename>/contrib/pg_autovacuum</> into the main server
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       (Alvaro)
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      </term>
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      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        Integrating autovacuum into the server allows it to be
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        automatically started and stopped in sync with the database
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        server, and allows autovacuum to be configured from
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        <filename>postgresql.conf</>.
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       </para>
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Add shared row level locks using <command>SELECT ... FOR SHARE</>
       (Alvaro)
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      </term>
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      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        While <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s MVCC locking
        allows <command>SELECT</> to never be blocked by writers and
        therefore does not need shared row locks for typical operations,
        shared locks are useful for applications that require shared row
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        locking.  In particular this reduces the locking requirements
        imposed by referential integrity checks.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
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       Add dependencies on shared objects, specifically roles
       (Alvaro)
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        This extension of the dependency mechanism prevents roles from
        being dropped while there are still database objects they own.
        Formerly it was possible to accidentally <quote>orphan</> objects by
        deleting their owner.  While this could be recovered from, it
        was messy and unpleasant.
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       </para>
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

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     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Improve performance for partitioned tables (Simon)
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        The new <varname>constraint_exclusion</varname> configuration
        parameter avoids lookups on child tables where constraints indicate
        that no matching rows exist in the child table.
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows for a basic type of table partitioning. If child tables
        store separate key ranges and this is enforced using appropriate
        <command>CHECK</> constraints, the optimizer will skip child
        table accesses when the constraint guarantees no matching rows
        exist in the child table.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

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    </variablelist>
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   </sect2>
 
   <sect2>
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    <title>Migration to version 8.1</title>
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    <para>
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     A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is required
     for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.
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    </para>
    
    <para>
     The 8.0 release announced that the <function>to_char()</> function
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     for intervals would be removed in 8.1. However, since no better API
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     has been suggested, <function>to_char(interval)</> has been enhanced in
     8.1 and will remain in the server.
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    </para>

    <para>
     Observe the following incompatibilities:
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    </para>
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      <para>
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       <varname>add_missing_from</> is now false by default (Neil)
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      </para>
      <para>
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       By default, we now generate an error if a table is used in a query
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       without a <literal>FROM</> reference.  The old behavior is still
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       available, but the parameter must be set to 'true' to obtain it.
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      </para>
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      <para>
       It may be necessary to set <varname>add_missing_from</> to true
       in order to load an existing dump file, if the dump contains any
       views or rules created using the implicit-<literal>FROM</> syntax.
       This should be a one-time annoyance, because
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.1 will convert
       such views and rules to standard explicit-<literal>FROM</> syntax.
       Subsequent dumps will therefore not have the problem.
      </para>
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     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
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       Cause input of a zero-length string (<literal>''</literal>) for
       <type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type>/<type>oid</type>
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       to throw an error, rather than treating it as a zero (Neil)
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      </para>
      <para>
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       This change is consistent with the current handling of
       zero-length strings for integers. The schedule for this change
       was announced in 8.0.
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      </para>
     </listitem>

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      <para>
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       <varname>default_with_oids</> is now false by default (Neil)
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      </para>
      <para>
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       With this option set to false, user-created tables no longer
       have an OID column unless <command>WITH OIDS</> is specified in
       <command>CREATE TABLE</>. Though OIDs have existed in all
       releases of <productname>PostgreSQL</>, their use is limited
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       because they are only four bytes long and the counter is shared
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       across all installed databases. The preferred way of uniquely
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       identifying rows is via sequences and the <type>SERIAL</> type,
       which have been supported since <productname>PostgreSQL</> 6.4.
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      </para>
     </listitem>

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      <para>
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       Add <literal>E''</> syntax so eventually ordinary strings can
       treat backslashes literally (Bruce)
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      </para>
      <para>
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       Currently <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> processes a
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       backslash in a string literal as introducing a special escape sequence,
       e.g. <literal>\n</> or <literal>\010</>.
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       While this allows easy entry of special values, it is
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       nonstandard and makes porting of applications from other
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       databases more difficult. For this reason, the
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> project is planning to
       remove the special meaning of backslashes in strings. For
       backward compatibility and for users who want special backslash
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       processing, a new string syntax has been created. This new string
       syntax is formed by writing an <literal>E</> immediately preceding the
       single quote that starts the string, e.g. <literal>E'hi\n'</>. While
       this release does not change the handling of backslashes in strings, it
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       does add new configuration parameters to help users migrate applications
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       for future releases:
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      </para>
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      <itemizedlist>

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       <listitem>
        <para>
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         <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> &mdash; does this release
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         treat backslashes literally in ordinary strings?
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        </para>
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       <para>
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        <varname>escape_string_warning</> &mdash; warn about backslashes in
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        ordinary (non-E) strings
       </para>
      </listitem>
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      </itemizedlist>

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      <para>
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       The <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> value is read-only.
       Applications can retrieve the value to know how backslashes are
       processed.  (Presence of the parameter can also be taken as an
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       indication that <literal>E''</> string syntax is supported.)
       In a future release, <varname>standard_conforming_strings</>
       will be true, meaning backslashes will be treated literally in
       non-E strings. To prepare for this change, use <literal>E''</>
       strings in places that need special backslash processing, and
       turn on <varname>escape_string_warning</> to find additional
       strings that need to be converted to use <literal>E''</>.
       Also, use two single-quotes (<literal>''</>) to embed a literal
       single-quote in a string, rather than the
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>-supported syntax of
       backslash single-quote (<literal>\'</>).  The former is
       standards-conforming and does not require the use of the
       <literal>E''</> string syntax.  You can also use the
       <literal>$$</> string syntax, which does not treat backslashes
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       specially.
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      </para>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       Make <command>REINDEX DATABASE</> reindex all indexes in the
       database (Tom)
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      </para>
      <para>
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       Formerly, <command>REINDEX DATABASE</> reindexed only
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       system tables. This new behavior seems more intuitive. A new
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       command <command>REINDEX SYSTEM</> provides the old functionality
       of reindexing just the system tables.
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      </para>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Read-only large object descriptors now obey MVCC snapshot semantics
      </para>
      <para>
       When a large object is opened with <literal>INV_READ</> (and not
       <literal>INV_WRITE</>), the data read from the descriptor will now
       reflect a <quote>snapshot</> of the large object's state at the
       time of the transaction snapshot in use by the query that called
       <function>lo_open()</>.  To obtain the old behavior of always
       returning the latest committed data, include <literal>INV_WRITE</>
       in the mode flags for <function>lo_open()</>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

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      <para>
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      </para>
      <para>
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       In previous releases, sequence names passed to <function>nextval()</>,
       <function>currval()</>, and <function>setval()</> were stored as
       simple text strings, meaning that renaming or dropping a
       sequence used in a <literal>DEFAULT</> clause made the clause
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       invalid. This release stores all newly-created sequence function
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       arguments as internal OIDs, allowing them to track sequence
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       renaming, and adding dependency information that prevents
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       improper sequence removal. It also makes such <literal>DEFAULT</>
       clauses immune to schema renaming and search path changes.
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      </para>
      <para>
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       Some applications might rely on the old behavior of
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       run-time lookup for sequence names. This can still be done by
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       explicitly casting the argument to <type>text</>, for example
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       database containing text-based <literal>DEFAULT</> clauses.
       First, save this query into a file, such as <filename>fixseq.sql</>:
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<programlisting>
SELECT  'ALTER TABLE ' ||
    pg_catalog.quote_ident(n.nspname) || '.' ||
    pg_catalog.quote_ident(c.relname) ||
    ' ALTER COLUMN ' || pg_catalog.quote_ident(a.attname) ||
    ' SET DEFAULT ' ||
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                   $$val\(\(('[^']*')::text\)::regclass$$,
                   $$val\(\1$$,
                   'g') ||
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FROM    pg_namespace n, pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_attrdef d
WHERE   n.oid = c.relnamespace AND
    c.oid = a.attrelid AND
    a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND
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       Next, run the query against a database to find what
       adjustments are required, like this for database <literal>db1</>:
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       convert the database to the newer OID-based representation.
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       In previous releases, <literal>\{digit}+</> sequences were
       treated as decimal, and only <literal>\0{digit}+</> were treated
       as octal. This change was made for consistency.
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       modulus operator (<literal>%</>) with negative numbers.
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      <para>
       <command>CREATE LANGUAGE</> may ignore the provided arguments
       in favor of information from <structname>pg_pltemplate</>
       (Tom)
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      <para>
       A new system catalog <structname>pg_pltemplate</> has been defined
       to carry information about the preferred definitions of procedural
       languages (such as whether they have validator functions).  When
       an entry exists in this catalog for the language being created,
       <command>CREATE LANGUAGE</> will ignore all its parameters except the
       language name and instead use the catalog information.  This measure
       was taken because of increasing problems with obsolete language
       definitions being loaded by old dump files.  As of 8.1,
       <application>pg_dump</> will dump procedural language definitions as
       just <command>CREATE LANGUAGE <replaceable>name</></command>, relying
       on a template entry to exist at load time.  We expect this will be a
       more future-proof representation.
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       <type>boolean</type> rather than an <type>integer</type> (Neil)
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       properly accepts only valid UTF-8 sequences. One way to correct a
       dumpfile is to run the command <command>iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t
       UTF-8 -o cleanfile.sql dumpfile.sql</>. The <literal>-c</> option
       removes invalid character sequences. A diff of the two files will
       show the sequences that are invalid. <command>iconv</> reads the
       entire input file into memory so it might be necessary to use
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    <para>
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     between <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.1 and the
     previous major release.
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    <sect3>
     <title>Performance Improvements</title>
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        significant, and the gain in reliability too marginal to justify it.
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        control writing full pages to WAL (Bruce)
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        speed.  This is safe to use with battery-backed disk caches where
        partial page writes cannot happen.
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        cache, and for WAL writes, this improves performance.
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       <para>
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        larger chunks, rather than character by character.
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        <function>SUM</function>, <function>AVG()</function>,
        <function>STDDEV()</function>, and
        <function>VARIANCE()</function> (Neil, Tom)
       </para>
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        the wraparound point.  If the counter becomes too close to wraparound,
        the server will stop accepting queries.  This ensures that data is
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        objects after the OID counter has wrapped around (Tom)
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        during <command>VACUUM</> (Ron Mayer)
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        users to determine the size of the local buffer area for
        temporary table access (Tom)
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       <para>
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        keytab can be used. This is new Kerberos matching behavior in
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        timestamps (<literal>%m</>) and remote host (<literal>%h</>) (Ed
        L.)
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        times for idle, interval, and count (Oliver Jowett)
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       <para>
        These values can be changed to allow more rapid detection of
        lost client connections.
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        can concurrently connect as a specific user or to a specific database.
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        obsolete procedural-language definitions in dump files (Tom)
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     <title>Query Changes</title>
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        <command>GROUP BY</> so that the query returns a single group (Tom)
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        parameter allows a query taking more than a certain amount of
        time to be cancelled, the <command>NOWAIT</> option allows a
        query to be canceled as soon as a <command>SELECT ... FOR
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        for global tables, so, for example, user ownership can be
        tracked across databases, so a user who owns something in any
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        Now, ownership can be transferred if the user executing the command
        owns the object and would be able to create it as the new owner
        (that is, the user is a member of the new owning role and that role
        has the CREATE permission that would be needed to create the object
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        Prior releases included trigger execution time as part of the
        total execution time, but did not show it separately.  It is now
        possible to see how much time is spent in each trigger.
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      <listitem>
       <para>
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       </para>
       <para>
        Previous releases only supported octal escapes.
       </para>
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      <listitem>
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        <command>SHOW</> varname still only displays the variable's
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        database called <literal>postgres</>, and convert utilities to
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       <para>
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        In prior releases, <literal>template1</> was used both as a
        default connection for utilities like
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        utility by moving <filename>/contrib/reindexdb</> into the
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    </sect3>
  
  
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     <title>Data Type and Function Changes</title>
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       <para>
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        Fix <function>to_date()</> and <function>to_timestamp()</> to
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       <para>
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       <para>
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        The function already existed, but there was no operator assigned
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        <function>lastval()</> is a simplified version of
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        sequence name based on the most recent <function>nextval()</> or
        <function>setval()</> call performed by the current session.
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       <para>
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       <para>
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       <para>
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        supported by <command>AT TIME ZONE</>. Now any supported time
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       <para>
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        Previous versions sometimes returned unjustified results, like
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        Fix roundoff behavior in timestamp, time, and interval output (Tom)
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        This fixes some cases in which the seconds field would be shown as
        <literal>60</> instead of incrementing the higher-order fields.
       </para>
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        Days that contain a daylight saving time adjustment are not 24
        hours long, but typically 23 or 25 hours.  This change creates a
        conceptual distinction between intervals of <quote>so many days</>
        and intervals of <quote>so many hours</>.  Adding
        <literal>1 day</> to a timestamp now gives the same local time on
        the next day even if a daylight saving time adjustment occurs
        between, whereas adding <literal>24 hours</> will give a different
        local time when this happens.  For example, under US DST rules:
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       <para>
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        These functions, respectively, adjust days to an appropriate
        number of full months and days, and adjust hours to an
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      <listitem>
       <para>
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       <para>
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        <itemizedlist>
  
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          <para>
            <function>pg_tablespace_size()</>
          </para>
         </listitem>

         <listitem>
          <para>
           <function>pg_database_size()</>
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          <para>
           <function>pg_relation_size()</>
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       <para>
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          <para>
           <function>pg_ls_dir()</>
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        </itemizedlist>
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    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Encoding and Locale Changes</title>
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       <para>
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        <itemizedlist>
  
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          <para>
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         <listitem>
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    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>General Server-Side Language Changes</title>
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      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        returned by assigning to parameters declared as <command>OUT</> or
        <command>INOUT</>.  This is notationally simpler in some cases,
        particularly so when multiple values need to be returned.
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     <title>PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</title>
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      <listitem>
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        return value.
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     </itemizedlist>
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       <para>
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        This allows functions to use <function>spi_query()</> and
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     <title><application>psql</> Changes</title>
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        Add support for <literal>\x</> hex strings in
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       <para>
        Octal escapes were already supported.
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       <para>
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       <para>
        This option was added because some operating systems do not have
        simple command-line activity logging functionality.
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        make a best guess on the proper help information (Greg Sabino
        Mullane)
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        <application>psql</>'s version number, when they are different (Bruce)
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       <para>
        Also, a warning will be shown if the server and <application>psql</>
        are from different major releases.
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     <title><application>pg_dump</> Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
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       <para>
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        (Magnus Hagander)
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        This allows a database to be dumped in an encoding that is
        different from the server's encoding. This is valuable when
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       <para>
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       </para>
       <para>
        If the call handler for a procedural language is in the
        <literal>pg_catalog</> schema, <application>pg_dump</> does not
        dump the handler.  Instead, it dumps the language using just
        <command>CREATE LANGUAGE <replaceable>name</></command>,
        relying on the <structname>pg_pltemplate</> catalog to provide
        the language's creation parameters at load time.
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        Make <application>libpq</application> consistently return an error
        to the client application on <function>malloc()</function>
        failure (Neil)
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        reliability (Bruce)
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        Move private declarations from <filename>gist.h</filename> to
        <filename>gist_private.h</filename> (Neil)
       </para>

       <para>
        In previous releases, <filename>gist.h</> contained both the
        public GiST API (intended for use by authors of GiST index
        implementations) as well as some private declarations used by
        the implementation of GiST itself. The latter have been moved
        to a separate file, <filename>gist_private.h</>. Most GiST
        index implementations should be unaffected.
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       <para>
        Overhaul GiST memory management (Neil)
       </para>

       <para>
        GiST methods are now always invoked in a short-lived memory
        context. Therefore, memory allocated via <function>palloc()</>
        will be reclaimed automatically, so GiST index implementations
        do not need to manually release allocated memory via
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       <para>
        This displays the contents of the buffer cache, for debugging and
        performance tuning purposes.
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        There is now a facility for testing with SQL command scripts given
        by the user, instead of only a hard-wired command sequence.
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   <title>Release 8.0.6</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2006-01-09</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.5.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.6</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.3, see the release
     notes for 8.0.3.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix for protocol-level describe portal statements issued
outside a transaction (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix character set sorting for locales that consider
different character combinations to have the same sorting, e.g.
Hungarian. (Tom) </para><para>This might require <command>REINDEX</> in
those locales to fix  existing indexes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Allow more flexible relocation of installation
directories (Tom)</para> <para>Previous releases supported relocation
only if all directories were the same except the last
componient.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix long standing Asian multibyte charsets bug (Tatsuo)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Various fixes for queries returning <literal>RECORD</>s
(Tom) </para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <filename>/contrib/dblink</> to throw an error
when the number of columns specified is different from those returned
by the query (Joe)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Set <literal>LC_XXX</> variables to prevent problems
with <application>plperl</> processing (Tom)</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

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   <title>Release 8.0.5</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-12-12</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.4.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.5</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.3, see the release
     notes for 8.0.3.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix race condition in transaction log management</para>
<para>There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be initiated
for the wrong page, leading to an Assert failure or data
corruption.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bgwriter problems after recovering from errors
(Tom)</para>
<para>
The background writer was found to leak buffer pins after write errors.
While not fatal in itself, this might lead to mysterious blockages of
later VACUUM commands.
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Prevent failure if client sends Bind protocol message
when current transaction is already aborted</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><filename>/contrib/ltree</> fixes (Teodor)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>AIX and HPUX compile fixes (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Retry file reads and writes after Windows
NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES error (Qingqing Zhou)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix intermittent failure when <varname>log_line_prefix</>
includes <literal>%i</></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <application>psql</> performance issue with long scripts
on Windows (Merlin Moncure)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix missing updates of <filename>pg_group</> flat
file</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix longstanding planning error for outer joins</para>
<para>This bug sometimes caused a bogus error <quote>RIGHT JOIN is
only supported with merge-joinable join conditions</>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Postpone timezone initialization until after
<filename>postmaster.pid</> is created</para>
<para>This avoids confusing startup scripts that expect the pid file to appear
quickly.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Prevent core dump in <application>pg_autovacuum</> when a
table has been dropped</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix problems with whole-row references (<literal>foo.*</>)
to subquery results</para></listitem>
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   <note>
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   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.3.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.4</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.3, see the release
     notes for 8.0.3.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix error that allowed <command>VACUUM</> to remove
<literal>ctid</> chains too soon, and add more checking in code that follows
<literal>ctid</> links</para>
<para>This fixes a long-standing problem that could cause crashes in very rare
circumstances.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <type>CHAR()</> to properly pad spaces to the specified
length when using a multiple-byte character set (Yoshiyuki Asaba)</para>
<para>In prior releases, the padding of <type>CHAR()</> was incorrect
because it only padded to the specified number of bytes without
considering how many characters were stored.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force a checkpoint before committing <command>CREATE
DATABASE</></para>
<para>This should fix recent reports of <quote>index is not a btree</>
failures when a crash occurs shortly after <command>CREATE
DATABASE</>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix the sense of the test for read-only transaction
in <command>COPY</></para>
<para>The code formerly prohibited <command>COPY TO</>, where it should
prohibit <command>COPY FROM</>.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Handle consecutive embedded newlines in <command>COPY</>
CSV-mode input</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>date_trunc(week)</> for dates near year
end</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix planning problem with outer-join ON clauses that reference
only the inner-side relation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Further fixes for <literal>x FULL JOIN y ON true</> corner
cases</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix overenthusiastic optimization of <literal>x IN (SELECT
DISTINCT ...)</> and related cases</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix mis-planning of queries with small <literal>LIMIT</>
values due to poorly thought out <quote>fuzzy</> cost
comparison</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <function>array_in</> and <function>array_recv</> more
paranoid about validating their OID parameter</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix missing rows in queries like <literal>UPDATE a=... WHERE
a...</> with GiST index on column <literal>a</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve robustness of datetime parsing</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve checking for partially-written WAL
pages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve robustness of signal handling when SSL is
enabled</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve MIPS and M68K spinlock code</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't try to open more than <literal>max_files_per_process</>
files during postmaster startup</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various memory leakage fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various portability improvements</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update timezone data files</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve handling of DLL load failures on Windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve random-number generation on Windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <literal>psql -f filename</> return a nonzero exit code
when opening the file fails</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change <application>pg_dump</> to handle inherited check
constraints more reliably</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix password prompting in <application>pg_restore</> on
Windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/PgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
the variable is of pass-by-reference type</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/Perl <literal>%_SHARED</> so it's actually
shared</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/pg_autovacuum</> to allow sleep
intervals over 2000 sec</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to use current Snowball
code</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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  <sect1 id="release-8-0-3">
   <title>Release 8.0.3</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara>
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   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.2, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.3</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
     it is one possible way of handling two significant security problems
     that have been found in the initial contents of 8.0.X system
     catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 8.0.3's initdb will
     automatically correct these problems.
    </para>

    <para>
     The larger security problem is that the built-in character set encoding
     conversion functions can be invoked from SQL commands by unprivileged
     users, but the functions were not designed for such use and are not
     secure against malicious choices of arguments.  The fix involves changing
     the declared parameter list of these functions so that they can no longer
     be invoked from SQL commands.  (This does not affect their normal use
     by the encoding conversion machinery.)
    </para>

    <para>
     The lesser problem is that the <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> module
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     creates several functions that are improperly declared to return
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     <type>internal</> when they do not accept <type>internal</> arguments.
     This breaks type safety for all functions using <type>internal</>
     arguments.
    </para>

    <para>
     It is strongly recommended that all installations repair these errors,
     either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedure given
     below.  The errors at least allow unprivileged database users to crash
     their server process, and may allow unprivileged users to gain the
     privileges of a database superuser.
    </para>

    <para>
     If you wish not to do an initdb, perform the same manual repair
     procedures shown in the <link linkend="release-7-4-8">7.4.8 release
     notes</link>.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Change encoding function signature to prevent
misuse</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to avoid unsafe use of
<type>INTERNAL</> function results</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Guard against incorrect second parameter to
<function>record_out</></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</para>
<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</para>
<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix comparisons of <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para>
<para>
The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
NOTE: if you have an index on a <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> column,
it will need to be <command>REINDEX</>ed after installing this update, because
the fix corrects the sort order of column values.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</> for
<type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix mis-display of negative fractional seconds in
<type>INTERVAL</> values</para>
<para>
This error only occurred when the
<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to dump trigger names containing <literal>%</>
correctly (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Still more 64-bit fixes for
<filename>contrib/intagg</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent incorrect optimization of functions returning
<type>RECORD</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent crash on <literal>COALESCE(NULL,NULL)</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix Borland makefile for libpq</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> for <type>timetz</> type
(Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <command>pg_ctl</> check the PID found in
<filename>postmaster.pid</> to see if it is still a live
process</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <command>pg_dump</>/<command>pg_restore</> problems caused
by addition of dump timestamps</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix interaction between materializing holdable cursors and
firing deferred triggers during transaction commit</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix memory leak in SQL functions returning pass-by-reference
data types</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>

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  <sect1 id="release-8-0-2">
   <title>Release 8.0.2</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-04-07</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.1.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.2</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.*.
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     This release updates the major version number of the
     <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> libraries, so it might be
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     necessary to re-link some user applications if they cannot
     find the properly-numbered shared library.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Increment the major version number of all interface 
 libraries (Bruce)</para>
<para>
 This should have been done in 8.0.0.  It is required so 7.4.X versions 
 of PostgreSQL client applications, like <application>psql</>,
 can be used on the same machine as 8.0.X applications.  This might require 
 re-linking user applications that use these libraries.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add Windows-only <varname>wal_sync_method</> setting of
 <option>fsync_writethrough</> (Magnus, Bruce)</para>
<para>
 This setting causes <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to write through
 any disk-drive write cache when writing to WAL.
 This behavior was formerly called <option>fsync</>, but was
 renamed because it acts quite differently from <option>fsync</> on other
 platforms.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable the <varname>wal_sync_method</> setting of
 <option>open_datasync</> on Windows, and make it the default for that 
  platform (Magnus, Bruce)</para>
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<para>
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 Because the default is no longer <option>fsync_writethrough</>,
 data loss is possible during a power failure if the disk drive has
 write caching enabled. To turn off the write cache on Windows, 
 from the <application>Device Manager</>, choose the drive properties, 
 then <literal>Policies</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>New cache management algorithm <acronym>2Q</> replaces 
 <acronym>ARC</> (Tom)</para>
<para>
 This was done to avoid a pending US patent on <acronym>ARC</>.  The 
 <acronym>2Q</> code might be a few percentage points slower than 
 <acronym>ARC</> for some work loads.  A better cache management algorithm
 will appear in 8.1.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Planner adjustments to improve behavior on freshly-created
tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow plpgsql to assign to an element of an array that is
initially <literal>NULL</> (Tom)</para>
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<para>
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 Formerly the array would remain <literal>NULL</>, but now it becomes a
 single-element array.  The main SQL engine was changed to handle
 <command>UPDATE</> of a null array value this way in 8.0, but the similar
 case in plpgsql was overlooked.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Convert <literal>\r\n</> and <literal>\r</> to <literal>\n</>
in plpython function bodies (Michael Fuhr)</para>
<para>
  This prevents syntax errors when plpython code is written on a Windows or
  Mac client.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow SPI cursors to handle utility commands that return rows,
such as <command>EXPLAIN</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <command>CLUSTER</> failure after <command>ALTER TABLE 
 SET WITHOUT OIDS</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage of <command>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</> 
 (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <command>ALTER LANGUAGE RENAME</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Document the Windows-only <literal>register</> and
<literal>unregister</> options of <application>pg_ctl</> (Magnus)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure operations done during backend shutdown are counted by
statistics collector</para>
<para>
 This is expected to resolve reports of <application>pg_autovacuum</>
 not vacuuming the system catalogs often enough &mdash; it was not being
 told about catalog deletions caused by temporary table removal during
 backend exit.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change the Windows default for configuration parameter
 <varname>log_destination</> to <option>eventlog</> (Magnus)</para>
<para>
 By default, a server running on Windows will now send log output to the
 Windows event logger rather than standard error.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Make Kerberos authentication work on Windows (Magnus)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow <command>ALTER DATABASE RENAME</> by superusers 
 who aren't flagged as having CREATEDB privilege (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Modify WAL log entries for <command>CREATE</> and
<command>DROP DATABASE</> to not specify absolute paths (Tom)</para>
 <para>This allows point-in-time recovery on a different machine with possibly
 different database location.  Note that <command>CREATE TABLESPACE</> still
 poses a hazard in such situations.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix crash from a backend exiting with an open transaction 
 that created a table and opened a cursor on it (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>array_map()</> so it can call PL functions 
 (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Several <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> and
<filename>contrib/btree_gist</> fixes (Teodor)
 </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix crash of some <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> 
 functions on some platforms (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/intagg</> for 64-bit platforms 
 (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix ecpg bugs in parsing of <command>CREATE</> statement 
 (Michael)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Work around gcc bug on powerpc and amd64 causing problems in 
 ecpg (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Do not use locale-aware versions of <function>upper()</>, 
 <function>lower()</>, and <function>initcap()</> when the locale is
 <literal>C</> (Bruce)</para>
<para>
  This allows these functions to work on platforms that generate errors
  for non-7-bit data when the locale is <literal>C</>.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix <function>quote_ident()</> to quote names that match keywords (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix <function>to_date()</> to behave reasonably when 
 <literal>CC</> and <literal>YY</> fields are both used (Karel)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent <function>to_char(interval)</> from failing 
 when given a zero-month interval (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix wrong week returned by <function>date_trunc('week')</>
(Bruce)</para>
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<para>
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 <function>date_trunc('week')</>
 returned the wrong year for the first few days of January in some years.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Use the correct default mask length for class <literal>D</>
 addresses in <type>INET</> data types (Tom)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>

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   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-8-0-1">
   <title>Release 8.0.1</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-01-31</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.0, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0.1</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.0.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Disallow <command>LOAD</> to non-superusers</para>
<para>
On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
<command>LOAD</> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code.
Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check that creator of an aggregate function has the right to
execute the specified transition functions</para>
<para>
This oversight made it possible to bypass denial of EXECUTE
permission on a function.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix security and 64-bit issues in
contrib/intagg</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
Jurka)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
many parameters (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <command>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</> enforce domain
constraints in all cases</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</para>
<para>
The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve planning of grouped aggregate queries</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>ROLLBACK TO <replaceable>savepoint</></command>
closes cursors created since the savepoint</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix inadequate backend stack size on Windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid SHGetSpecialFolderPath() on Windows
(Magnus)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix some problems in running pg_autovacuum as a Windows
service (Dave Page)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Multiple minor bug fixes in
pg_dump/pg_restore</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix ecpg segfault with named structs used in
typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-8-0">
   <title>Release 8.0</title>
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   <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
    <simpara>2005-01-19</simpara>
   </note>
 
   <sect2>
    <title>Overview</title>
 
    <para>
     Major changes in this release:
    </para>
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    <variablelist>
     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Microsoft Windows Native Server
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        This is the first <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> release
        to run natively on <trademark class=registered>Microsoft Windows</> as
        a server. It can run as a <productname>Windows</> service. This
        release supports NT-based Windows releases like
        <productname>Windows 2000</>, <productname>Windows XP</>, and
        <productname>Windows 2003</>. Older releases like
        <productname>Windows 95</>, <productname>Windows 98</>, and
        <productname>Windows ME</> are not supported because these operating
        systems do not have the infrastructure to support
        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. A separate installer
        project has been created to ease installation on
        <productname>Windows</> &mdash; see <ulink
        url="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/"></ulink>.
       </para>

       <para>
        Although tested throughout our release cycle, the Windows port
        does not have the benefit of years of use in production
        environments that <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has on
        Unix platforms.  Therefore it should be treated with the same
        level of caution as you would a new product.
       </para>

       <para>
        Previous releases required the Unix emulation toolkit
        <productname>Cygwin</> in order to run the server on Windows
        operating systems.  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has
        supported native clients on Windows for many years.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Savepoints
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        Savepoints allow specific parts of a transaction to be aborted
        without affecting the remainder of the transaction. Prior
        releases had no such capability; there was no way to recover
        from a statement failure within a transaction except by
        aborting the whole transaction. This feature is valuable for
        application writers who require error recovery within a
        complex transaction.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Point-In-Time Recovery
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        In previous releases there was no way to recover from disk
        drive failure except to restore from a previous backup or use
        a standby replication server.  Point-in-time recovery allows
        continuous backup of the server.  You can recover either to
        the point of failure or to some transaction in the past.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Tablespaces
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        Tablespaces allow administrators to select different file systems
        for storage of individual tables, indexes, and databases.
        This improves performance and control over disk space
        usage. Prior releases used <application>initlocation</> and
        manual symlink management for such tasks.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Improved Buffer Management, <command>CHECKPOINT</command>,
       <command>VACUUM</command>
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        This release has a more intelligent buffer replacement strategy,
        which will make better use of available shared buffers and
        improve performance. The performance impact of vacuum and
        checkpoints is also lessened.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Change Column Types
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        A column's data type can now be changed with <command>ALTER
        TABLE</command>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       New Perl Server-Side Language
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        A new version of the <application>plperl</> server-side language now
        supports a persistent shared storage area, triggers, returning records
        and arrays of records, and SPI calls to access the database.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
        Comma-separated-value (CSV) support in <command>COPY</command>
      </term>

      <listitem>
       <para>
        <command>COPY</command> can now read and write
        comma-separated-value files. It has the flexibility to
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        interpret nonstandard quoting and separation characters too.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
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   </sect2>
 
   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 8.0</title>
                                       
    <para>
     A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is
     required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
     release.
    </para>
    
    <para>
     Observe the following incompatibilities:
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    </para>
    
    <itemizedlist>

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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       In <option>READ COMMITTED</> serialization mode, volatile functions
       now see the results of concurrent transactions committed up to the
       beginning of each statement within the function, rather than up to the
       beginning of the interactive command that called the function.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       Functions declared <option>STABLE</> or <option>IMMUTABLE</> always
       use the snapshot of the calling query, and therefore do not see the
       effects of actions taken after the calling query starts, whether in
       their own transaction or other transactions.  Such a function must be
       read-only, too, meaning that it cannot use any SQL commands other than
       <command>SELECT</>.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       Nondeferred <option>AFTER</> triggers are now fired immediately
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       after completion of the triggering query, rather than upon
       finishing the current interactive command. This makes a
       difference when the triggering query occurred within a function:
       the trigger is invoked before the function proceeds to its next
       operation.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameters <varname>virtual_host</> and
       <varname>tcpip_socket</> have been replaced with a more general
       parameter <varname>listen_addresses</>. Also, the server now listens on
       <literal>localhost</> by default, which eliminates the need for the
       <literal>-i</> postmaster switch in many scenarios.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameters <varname>SortMem</> and
       <varname>VacuumMem</> have been renamed to <varname>work_mem</>
       and <varname>maintenance_work_mem</> to better reflect their
       use. The original names are still supported in
       <command>SET</command> and <command>SHOW</command>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameters <varname>log_pid</>,
       <varname>log_timestamp</>, and <varname>log_source_port</> have been
       replaced with a more general parameter <varname>log_line_prefix</>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameter <varname>syslog</> has been
       replaced with a more logical <varname>log_destination</> variable to
       control the log output destination.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameter <varname>log_statement</> has been
       changed so it can selectively log just database modification or
       data definition statements.  Server configuration parameter
       <varname>log_duration</> now prints only when <varname>log_statement</>
       prints the query.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Server configuration parameter <varname>max_expr_depth</> parameter has
       been replaced with <varname>max_stack_depth</> which measures the
       physical stack size rather than the expression nesting depth. This
       helps prevent session termination due to stack overflow caused by
       recursive functions.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       The <function>length()</> function no longer counts trailing spaces in
       <type>CHAR(n)</> values.
      </para>
     </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Casting an integer to <type>BIT(N)</> selects the rightmost N bits of the
      integer, not the leftmost N bits as before.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Updating an element or slice of a NULL array value now produces
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      a nonnull array result, namely an array containing
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      just the assigned-to positions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Syntax checking of array input values has been tightened up
       considerably. Junk that was previously allowed in odd places with
       odd results now causes an error. Empty-string element values
       must now be written as <literal>""</>, rather than writing nothing.
       Also changed behavior with respect to whitespace surrounding
       array elements: trailing whitespace is now ignored, for symmetry
       with leading whitespace (which has always been ignored).
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Overflow in integer arithmetic operations is now detected and
       reported as an error.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       The arithmetic operators associated with the single-byte
       <type>"char"</> data type have been removed.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       The <function>extract()</> function (also called
       <function>date_part</>) now returns the proper year for BC dates.
       It previously returned one less than the correct year. The
       function now also returns the proper values for millennium and
       century.
      </para>
     </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
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      <type>CIDR</> values now must have their nonmasked bits be zero.
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      For example, we no longer allow
      <literal>204.248.199.1/31</literal> as a <type>CIDR</> value. Such
      values should never have been accepted by
      <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> and will now be rejected.
     </para>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       <command>EXECUTE</command> now returns a completion tag that
       matches the executed statement.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       <application>psql</>'s <command>\copy</> command now reads or
       writes to the query's <literal>stdin/stdout</>, rather than
       <application>psql</>'s <literal>stdin/stdout</>. The previous
       behavior can be accessed via new
       <option>pstdin</>/<option>pstdout</> parameters.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
      The JDBC client interface has been removed from the core
      distribution, and is now hosted at <ulink url=
      "http://jdbc.postgresql.org"></ulink>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
      The Tcl client interface has also been removed. There are several
      Tcl interfaces now hosted at <ulink url=
      "http://gborg.postgresql.org"></ulink>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       The server now uses its own time zone database, rather than the
       one supplied by the operating system. This will provide consistent
       behavior across all platforms.  In most cases, there should be
       little noticeable difference in time zone behavior, except that
       the time zone names used by <command>SET</>/<command>SHOW</>
       <varname>TimeZone</> may
       be different from what your platform provides.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       <application>Configure</>'s threading option no longer requires
       users to run tests or edit configuration files; threading options
       are now detected automatically.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       Now that tablespaces have been implemented,
       <application>initlocation</> has been removed.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
       The API for user-defined GiST indexes has been changed. The
       Union and PickSplit methods are now passed a pointer to a
       special <structname>GistEntryVector</structname> structure,
       rather than a <type>bytea</type>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
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   </sect2>
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  <sect2>
   <title>Deprecated Features</title>

   <para>
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     Some aspects of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s behavior
     have been determined to be suboptimal. For the sake of backward
     compatibility these have not been removed in 8.0, but they are
     considered deprecated and will be removed in the next major
     release.
     </para>
 
    <itemizedlist>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       The 8.1 release will remove the <function>to_char()</> function
       for intervals.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
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      <listitem>
       <para>
        The server now warns of empty strings passed to
        <type>oid</type>/<type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type> data
        types, but continues to interpret them as zeroes as before.
        In the next major release, empty strings will be considered
        invalid input for these data types.
       </para>
      </listitem>
 
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     <listitem>
      <para>
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       By default, tables in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.0
       and earlier are created with <type>OID</>s. In the next release,
       this will <emphasis>not</emphasis> be the case: to create a table
       that contains <type>OID</>s, the <option>WITH OIDS</> clause must
       be specified or the <varname>default_with_oids</varname>
       configuration parameter must be set. Users are encouraged to
       explicitly specify <option>WITH OIDS</> if their tables
       require OIDs for compatibility with future releases of
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
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    </itemizedlist>
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   </sect2>
 
   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
 
    <para>
     Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
     release 8.0 and the previous major release.
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    </para>
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    <sect3>
     <title>Performance Improvements</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Support cross-data-type index usage (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Before this change, many queries would not use an index if the data
        types did not match exactly. This improvement makes index usage more
        intuitive and consistent.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New buffer replacement strategy that improves caching (Jan)
       </para>
       <para>
        Prior releases used a least-recently-used (LRU) cache to keep
        recently referenced pages in memory. The LRU algorithm
        did not consider the number of times a specific cache entry was
        accessed, so large table scans could force out useful cache pages.
        The new cache algorithm uses four separate lists to track most
        recently used and most frequently used cache pages and dynamically 
        optimize their replacement based on the work load. This should
        lead to much more efficient use of the shared buffer cache.
        Administrators who have tested shared buffer sizes in the past
        should retest with this new cache replacement policy.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add subprocess to write dirty buffers periodically to reduce
        checkpoint writes (Jan)
       </para>
       <para>
        In previous releases, the checkpoint process, which runs every few
        minutes, would write all dirty buffers to the operating system's
        buffer cache then flush all dirty operating system buffers to
        disk. This resulted in a periodic spike in disk usage that often
        hurt performance. The new code uses a background writer to trickle
        disk writes at a steady pace so checkpoints have far fewer dirty
        pages to write to disk. Also, the new code does not issue a global
        <function>sync()</> call, but instead <function>fsync()</>s just
        the files written since the last checkpoint. This should improve
        performance and minimize degradation during checkpoints.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add ability to prolong vacuum to reduce performance impact (Jan)
       </para>
       <para>
        On busy systems, <command>VACUUM</command> performs many I/O
        requests which can hurt performance for other users. This
        release allows you to slow down <command>VACUUM</command> to
        reduce its impact on other users, though this increases the
        total duration of <command>VACUUM</command>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve B-tree index performance for duplicate keys (Dmitry Tkach, Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This improves the way indexes are scanned when many duplicate
        values exist in the index.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use dynamically-generated table size estimates while planning (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Formerly the planner estimated table sizes using the values seen
        by the last <command>VACUUM</command> or <command>ANALYZE</command>,
        both as to physical table size (number of pages) and number of rows.
        Now, the current physical table size is obtained from the kernel,
        and the number of rows is estimated by multiplying the table size
        by the row density (rows per page) seen by the last
        <command>VACUUM</command> or <command>ANALYZE</command>.  This should
        produce more reliable estimates in cases where the table size has
        changed significantly since the last housekeeping command.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improved index usage with <literal>OR</> clauses (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows the optimizer to use indexes in statements with many OR
        clauses that would not have been indexed in the past.  It can also use
        multi-column indexes where the first column is specified and the second
        column is part of an <literal>OR</> clause.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve matching of partial index clauses (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        The server is now smarter about using partial indexes in queries
        involving complex <option>WHERE</> clauses.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve performance of the GEQO optimizer (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        The GEQO optimizer is used to plan queries involving many tables (by
        default, twelve or more). This release speeds up the way queries are
        analyzed to decrease time spent in optimization.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Miscellaneous optimizer improvements
       </para>
       <para>
        There is not room here to list all the minor improvements made, but
        numerous special cases work better than in prior releases.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve lookup speed for C functions (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This release uses a hash table to lookup information for dynamically
        loaded C functions. This improves their speed so they perform nearly as
        quickly as functions that are built into the server executable.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add type-specific <command>ANALYZE</command> statistics
        capability (Mark Cave-Ayland)
       </para>
       <para>
        This feature allows more flexibility in generating statistics
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        for nonstandard data types.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <command>ANALYZE</command> now collects statistics for
        expression indexes (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Expression indexes (also called functional indexes) allow users to
        index not just columns but the results of expressions and function
        calls. With this release, the optimizer can gather and use statistics
        about the contents of expression indexes.  This will greatly improve
        the quality of planning for queries in which an expression index is
        relevant.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New two-stage sampling method for <command>ANALYZE</command>
        (Manfred Koizar)
       </para>
       <para>
        This gives better statistics when the density of valid rows is very
        different in different regions of a table.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Speed up <command>TRUNCATE</command> (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This buys back some of the performance loss observed in 7.4, while still
        keeping <command>TRUNCATE</command> transaction-safe.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Server Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add WAL file archiving and point-in-time recovery (Simon Riggs)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add tablespaces so admins can control disk layout (Gavin)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add a built-in log rotation program (Andreas Pflug)
       </para>
       <para>
        It is now possible to log server messages conveniently without
        relying on either <application>syslog</> or an external log
        rotation program.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add new read-only server configuration parameters to show server
        compile-time settings: <varname>block_size</>,
        <varname>integer_datetimes</>, <varname>max_function_args</>,
        <varname>max_identifier_length</>, <varname>max_index_keys</>  (Joe)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make quoting of <literal>sameuser</>, <literal>samegroup</>, and
        <literal>all</> remove special meaning of these terms in
        <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use clearer IPv6 name <literal>::1/128</> for
        <literal>localhost</> in default <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use CIDR format in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> examples (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Rename server configuration parameters <varname>SortMem</> and
        <varname>VacuumMem</> to <varname>work_mem</> and
        <varname>maintenance_work_mem</> (Old names still supported) (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This change was made to clarify that bulk operations such as index and
        foreign key creation use <varname>maintenance_work_mem</>, while
        <varname>work_mem</> is for workspaces used during query execution.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow logging of session disconnections using server configuration
        <varname>log_disconnections</> (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add new server configuration parameter <varname>log_line_prefix</> to
        allow control of information emitted in each log line (Andrew)
       </para>
       <para>
        Available information includes user name, database name, remote IP
        address, and session start time.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove server configuration parameters <varname>log_pid</>,
        <varname>log_timestamp</>, <varname>log_source_port</>; functionality
        superseded by <varname>log_line_prefix</> (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Replace the <varname>virtual_host</> and <varname>tcpip_socket</>
        parameters with a unified <varname>listen_addresses</> parameter
        (Andrew, Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        <varname>virtual_host</> could only specify a single IP address to
        listen on.  <varname>listen_addresses</> allows multiple addresses
        to be specified.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Listen on localhost by default, which eliminates the need for the
        <option>-i</> postmaster switch in many scenarios (Andrew)
       </para>
       <para>
        Listening on localhost (<literal>127.0.0.1</>) opens no new
        security holes but allows configurations like Windows and JDBC,
        which do not support local sockets, to work without special
        adjustments.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove <varname>syslog</> server configuration parameter, and add more
        logical <varname>log_destination</> variable to control log output
        location (Magnus)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Change server configuration parameter <varname>log_statement</> to take
        values <varname>all</>, <varname>mod</>, <varname>ddl</>, or
        <varname>none</> to select which queries are logged (Bruce)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows administrators to log only data definition changes or
        only data modification statements.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Some logging-related configuration parameters could formerly be adjusted
        by ordinary users, but only in the <quote>more verbose</> direction.
        They are now treated more strictly: only superusers can set them.
        However, a superuser may use <command>ALTER USER</> to provide per-user
        settings of these values for non-superusers.  Also, it is now possible
        for superusers to set values of superuser-only configuration parameters
        via <literal>PGOPTIONS</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow configuration files to be placed outside the data directory (mlw)
       </para>
       <para>
        By default, configuration files are kept in the cluster's top directory.
        With this addition, configuration files can be placed outside the
        data directory, easing administration.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Plan prepared queries only when first executed so constants can be
        used for statistics (Oliver Jowett)
       </para>
       <para>
        Prepared statements plan queries once and execute them many
        times. While prepared queries avoid the overhead of re-planning
        on each use, the quality of the plan suffers from not knowing the exact
        parameters to be used in the query.  In this release, planning of
        unnamed prepared statements is delayed until the first execution,
        and the actual parameter values of that execution are used as
        optimization hints.  This allows use of out-of-line parameter passing
        without incurring a performance penalty.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>DECLARE CURSOR</command> to take parameters
        (Oliver Jowett)
       </para>
       <para>
        It is now useful to issue <command>DECLARE CURSOR</command> in a
        <function>Parse</> message with parameters. The parameter values
        sent at <function>Bind</> time will be substituted into the
        execution of the cursor's query.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix hash joins and aggregates of <type>inet</type> and
        <type>cidr</type> data types (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Release 7.4 handled hashing of mixed <type>inet</type> and
        <type>cidr</type> values incorrectly.  (This bug did not exist
        in prior releases because they wouldn't try to hash either
        data type.)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <varname>log_duration</> print only when <varname>log_statement</>
        prints the query (Ed L.)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Query Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add savepoints (nested transactions) (Alvaro)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Unsupported isolation levels are now accepted and promoted to the
        nearest supported level (Peter)
       </para>
       <para>
        The SQL specification states that if a database doesn't support a
        specific isolation level, it should use the next more restrictive level.
        This change complies with that recommendation.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>BEGIN WORK</command> to specify transaction
        isolation levels like <command>START TRANSACTION</command> does
        (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix table permission checking for cases in which rules generate
        a query type different from the originally submitted query (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Implement dollar quoting to simplify single-quote usage (Andrew, Tom, 
        David Fetter)
       </para>
       <para>
        In previous releases, because single quotes had to be used to
        quote a function's body, the use of single quotes inside the
        function text required use of two single quotes or other error-prone
        notations. With this release we add the ability to use "dollar
        quoting" to quote a block of text.  The ability to use different
        quoting delimiters at different nesting levels greatly simplifies
        the task of quoting correctly, especially in complex functions.
        Dollar quoting can be used anywhere quoted text is needed.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <literal>CASE val WHEN compval1 THEN ...</> evaluate <literal>val</> only once (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        <option>CASE</> no longer evaluates the tested expression multiple
        times. This has benefits when the expression is complex or is
        volatile.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Test <option>HAVING</> before computing target list of an
        aggregate query (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Fixes improper failure of cases such as <literal>SELECT SUM(win)/SUM(lose)
        ... GROUP BY ... HAVING SUM(lose) &gt; 0</>.  This should work but formerly
        could fail with divide-by-zero.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Replace <varname>max_expr_depth</> parameter with
        <varname>max_stack_depth</> parameter, measured in kilobytes of stack
        size (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
       This gives us a fairly bulletproof defense against crashing due to 
       runaway recursive functions. Instead of measuring the depth of expression
       nesting, we now directly measure the size of the execution stack.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow arbitrary row expressions (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This release allows SQL expressions to contain arbitrary composite
        types, that is, row values. It also allows functions to more easily
        take rows as arguments and return row values.
       </para>
      </listitem>
        
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <option>LIKE</>/<option>ILIKE</> to be used as the operator
        in row and subselect comparisons (Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
      </listitem>
        
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Avoid locale-specific case conversion of basic ASCII letters in
        identifiers and keywords (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This solves the <quote>Turkish problem</> with mangling of words
        containing <literal>I</> and  <literal>i</>.  Folding of characters
        outside the 7-bit-ASCII set is still locale-aware.
       </para>
      </listitem>
        
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve syntax error reporting (Fabien, Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Syntax error reports are more useful than before.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Change <command>EXECUTE</command> to return a completion tag
        matching the executed statement (Kris Jurka)
       </para>
       <para>
        Previous releases return an <command>EXECUTE</command> tag for
        any <command>EXECUTE</command> call. In this release, the tag
        returned will reflect the command executed.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Avoid emitting <option>NATURAL CROSS JOIN</> in rule listings (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Such a clause makes no logical sense, but in some cases the rule
        decompiler formerly produced this syntax.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Object Manipulation Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <command>COMMENT ON</> for casts, conversions, languages,
        operator classes, and large objects (Christopher)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add new server configuration parameter <varname>default_with_oids</> to
        control whether tables are created with <type>OID</>s by default (Neil)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows administrators to control whether <command>CREATE
        TABLE</command> commands create tables with or without <type>OID</>
        columns by default.  (Note: the current factory default setting for
        <varname>default_with_oids</> is <literal>TRUE</>, but the default
        will become <literal>FALSE</> in future releases.)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>WITH</> / <option>WITHOUT OIDS</> clause to
        <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command> (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN</> to drop an <type>OID</>
        column (<command>ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS</> still works)
        (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow composite types as table columns (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>ALTER ... ADD COLUMN</> with defaults and
        <option>NOT NULL</> constraints; works per SQL spec (Rod)
       </para>
       <para>
        It is now possible for <option>ADD COLUMN</> to create a column
        that is not initially filled with NULLs, but with a specified
        default value.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <command>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> to change column's type (Rod)
       </para>
       <para>
        It is now possible to alter a column's data type without dropping
        and re-adding the column.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow multiple <command>ALTER</> actions in a single <command>ALTER
        TABLE</command> command (Rod)
       </para>
       <para>
        This is particularly useful for <command>ALTER</> commands that
        rewrite the table (which include <option>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> and
        <option>ADD COLUMN</> with a default). By grouping
        <command>ALTER</> commands together, the table need be rewritten
        only once.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>ALTER TABLE</command> to add <type>SERIAL</type>
        columns (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This falls out from the new capability of specifying defaults for new
        columns.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow changing the owners of aggregates, conversions, databases,
        functions, operators, operator classes, schemas, types, and tablespaces
        (Christopher, Euler Taveira de Oliveira)
       </para>
       <para>
        Previously this required modifying the system tables directly.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow temporary object creation to be limited to <option>SECURITY
        DEFINER</> functions (Sean Chittenden)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>ALTER TABLE ... SET WITHOUT CLUSTER</> (Christopher)
       </para>
       <para>
        Prior to this release, there was no way to clear an auto-cluster
        specification except to modify the system tables.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Constraint/Index/<type>SERIAL</> names are now
        <replaceable>table_column_type</>
        with numbers appended to guarantee uniqueness within the schema
        (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        The SQL specification states that such names should be unique
        within a schema.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>pg_get_serial_sequence()</> to return a
        <type>SERIAL</> column's sequence name (Christopher)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows automated scripts to reliably find the <type>SERIAL</>
        sequence name.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Warn when primary/foreign key data type mismatch requires costly lookup
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <command>ALTER INDEX</> command to allow moving of indexes
        between tablespaces (Gavin)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <command>ALTER TABLE OWNER</> change dependent sequence
        ownership too (Alvaro)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Utility Command Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>CREATE SCHEMA</command> to create triggers,
        indexes, and sequences (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>ALSO</> keyword to <command>CREATE RULE</command> (Fabien
        Coelho)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows <option>ALSO</> to be added to rule creation to contrast it with
        <option>INSTEAD</> rules.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>NOWAIT</> option to <command>LOCK</command> (Tatsuo)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows the <command>LOCK</command> command to fail if it
        would have to wait for the requested lock.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <command>COPY</command> to read and write
        comma-separated-value (CSV) files (Andrew, Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Generate error if the <command>COPY</command> delimiter and NULL
        string conflict (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command> behavior
        follows the SQL spec more closely
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Avoid locking conflict between <command>CREATE INDEX</command>
        and <command>CHECKPOINT</command> (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        In 7.3 and 7.4, a long-running B-tree index build could block concurrent
        <command>CHECKPOINT</>s from completing, thereby causing WAL bloat because the
        WAL log could not be recycled.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Database-wide <command>ANALYZE</command> does not hold locks
        across tables (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This reduces the potential for deadlocks against other backends
        that want exclusive locks on tables.  To get the benefit of this
        change, do not execute database-wide <command>ANALYZE</command>
        inside a transaction block (<command>BEGIN</command> block); it
        must be able to commit and start a new transaction for each
        table.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <command>REINDEX</command> does not exclusively lock the index's
        parent table anymore
       </para>
       <para>
        The index itself is still exclusively locked, but readers of the
        table can continue if they are not using the particular index
        being rebuilt.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Erase MD5 user passwords when a user is renamed (Bruce)
       </para>
       <para>
        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> uses the user name as salt
        when encrypting passwords via MD5. When a user's name is changed,
        the salt will no longer match the stored MD5 password, so the
        stored password becomes useless.  In this release a notice is
        generated and the password is cleared.  A new password must then
        be assigned if the user is to be able to log in with a password.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <application>pg_ctl</> <option>kill</> option for Windows (Andrew)
       </para>
       <para>
        Windows does not have a <literal>kill</> command to send signals to
        backends so this capability was added to <application>pg_ctl</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Information schema improvements
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>--pwfile</> option to
        <application>initdb</application> so the initial password can be
        set by GUI tools (Magnus)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Detect locale/encoding mismatch in
        <application>initdb</application> (Peter)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>register</> command to <application>pg_ctl</> to
        register Windows operating system service (Dave Page)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Data Type and Function Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        More complete support for composite types (row types)  (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Composite values can be used in many places where only scalar values
        worked before.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
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       <para>
        Formerly, <function>array_in</> would silently build a
        surprising result.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
       <listitem>
        <para>
         Overflow in integer arithmetic operations is now detected (Tom)
        </para>
       </listitem>
  
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The arithmetic operators associated with the single-byte
         <type>"char"</> data type have been removed.
        </para>
        <para>
         Formerly, the parser would select these operators in many situations
         where an <quote>unable to select an operator</> error would be more
         appropriate, such as <literal>null * null</>.  If you actually want
         to do arithmetic on a <type>"char"</> column, you can cast it to
         integer explicitly.
        </para>
       </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
        <para>
         Syntax checking of array input values considerably tightened up (Joe)
        </para>
       <para>
         Junk that was previously allowed in odd places with odd results
         now causes an <literal>ERROR</>, for example, non-whitespace
         after the closing right brace.
        </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
        <para>
         Empty-string array element values must now be written as
         <literal>""</>, rather than writing nothing (Joe)
        </para>
       <para>
         Formerly, both ways of writing an empty-string element value were
         allowed, but now a quoted empty string is required.  The case where
         nothing at all appears will probably be considered to be a NULL
         element value in some future release.
        </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
        <para>
         Array element trailing whitespace is now ignored (Joe)
        </para>
       <para>
         Formerly leading whitespace was ignored, but trailing whitespace
         between an element value and the delimiter or right brace was
         significant.  Now trailing whitespace is also ignored.
        </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Emit array values with explicit array bounds when lower bound is not one
        (Joe)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Accept <literal>YYYY-monthname-DD</> as a date string (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <function>netmask</> and <function>hostmask</> functions
        return maximum-length mask length (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Change factorial function to return <type>numeric</type> (Gavin)
       </para>
       <para>
        Returning <type>numeric</type> allows the factorial function to
        work for a wider range of input values.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <function>to_char</>/<function>to_date()</> date conversion
        improvements (Kurt Roeckx, Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <function>length()</> disregard trailing spaces in
        <type>CHAR(n)</> (Gavin)
       </para>
       <para>
        This change was made to improve consistency: trailing spaces are
        semantically insignificant in <type>CHAR(n)</> data, so they
        should not be counted by <function>length()</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Warn about empty string being passed to
        <type>OID</>/<type>float4</>/<type>float8</> data types (Neil)
       </para>
       <para>
        8.1 will throw an error instead.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow leading or trailing whitespace in
        <type>int2</>/<type>int4</>/<type>int8</>/<type>float4</>/<type>float8</>
        input routines
        (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Better support for IEEE <literal>Infinity</> and <literal>NaN</>
        values in <type>float4</type>/<type>float8</type> (Neil)
       </para>
       <para>
        These should now work on all platforms that support IEEE-compliant
        floating point arithmetic.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>week</> option to <function>date_trunc()</> (Robert Creager)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix <function>to_char</function> for <literal>1 BC</>
        (previously it returned <literal>1 AD</>) (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix <function>date_part(year)</> for BC dates (previously it
        returned one less than the correct year) (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix <function>date_part()</> to return the proper millennium and
        century (Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
       <para>
        In previous versions, the century and millennium results had a wrong
        number and started in the wrong year, as compared to standard
        reckoning of such things.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>ceiling()</> as an alias for <function>ceil()</>,
        and <function>power()</> as an alias for <function>pow()</> for
        standards compliance (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Change <function>ln()</>, <function>log()</>,
        <function>power()</>, and <function>sqrt()</> to emit the correct
        <literal>SQLSTATE</> error codes for certain error conditions, as
        specified by SQL:2003 (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>width_bucket()</> function as defined by SQL:2003 (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>generate_series()</> functions to simplify working
        with numeric sets (Joe)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Fix <function>upper/lower/initcap()</> functions to work with
        multibyte encodings (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add boolean and bitwise integer <option>AND</>/<option>OR</>
        aggregates (Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New session information functions to return network addresses for client
        and server (Sean Chittenden)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add function to determine the area of a closed path (Sean Chittenden)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add function to send cancel request to other backends (Magnus)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <type>interval</> plus <type>datetime</> operators (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        The reverse ordering, <type>datetime</> plus <type>interval</>,
        was already supported, but both are required by the SQL standard.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Casting an integer to <type>BIT(N)</> selects the rightmost N bits
        of the integer
        (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        In prior releases, the leftmost N bits were selected, but this was
        deemed unhelpful, not to mention inconsistent with casting from bit
        to int.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Require <type>CIDR</> values to have all nonmasked bits be zero
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        (Kevin Brintnall)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Server-Side Language Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> serialization mode, volatile functions
        now see the results of concurrent transactions committed up to the
        beginning of each statement within the function, rather than up to the
        beginning of the interactive command that called the function.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Functions declared <literal>STABLE</> or <literal>IMMUTABLE</> always
        use the snapshot of the calling query, and therefore do not see the
        effects of actions taken after the calling query starts, whether in
        their own transaction or other transactions.  Such a function must be
        read-only, too, meaning that it cannot use any SQL commands other than
        <command>SELECT</>.  There is a considerable performance gain from
        declaring a function <literal>STABLE</> or <literal>IMMUTABLE</>
        rather than <literal>VOLATILE</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Nondeferred <option>AFTER</> triggers are now fired immediately
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        after completion of the triggering query, rather than upon
        finishing the current interactive command. This makes a difference
        when the triggering query occurred within a function: the trigger
        is invoked before the function proceeds to its next operation. For
        example, if a function inserts a new row into a table, any
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        nondeferred foreign key checks occur before proceeding with the
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        function.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Allow function parameters to be declared with names (Dennis Bj&ouml;rklund)
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       </para>
       <para>
        This allows better documentation of functions.  Whether the names
        actually do anything depends on the specific function language
        being used.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Allow PL/pgSQL parameter names to be referenced in the function (Dennis Bj&ouml;rklund)
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       </para>
       <para>
        This basically creates an automatic alias for each named parameter.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Do minimal syntax checking of PL/pgSQL functions at creation time (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows us to catch simple syntax errors sooner.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        More support for composite types (row and record variables) in PL/pgSQL
       </para>
       <para>
        For example, it now works to pass a rowtype variable to another function
        as a single variable.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Default values for PL/pgSQL variables can now reference previously
        declared variables
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve parsing of PL/pgSQL FOR loops (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        Parsing is now driven by presence of <literal>".."</> rather than
        data type of <option>FOR</> variable. This makes no difference for
        correct functions, but should result in more understandable error
        messages when a mistake is made.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Major overhaul of PL/Perl server-side language (Command Prompt, Andrew Dunstan)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        In PL/Tcl, SPI commands are now run in subtransactions.  If an error
        occurs, the subtransaction is cleaned up and the error is reported
        as an ordinary Tcl error, which can be trapped with <literal>catch</>.
        Formerly, it was not possible to catch such errors.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Accept <command>ELSEIF</> in PL/pgSQL (Neil)
       </para>
       <para>
        Previously PL/pgSQL only allowed <command>ELSIF</>, but many people
        are accustomed to spelling this keyword <command>ELSEIF</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title><application>psql</> Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve <application>psql</> information display about database
        objects (Christopher)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <application>psql</> to display group membership in
        <command>\du</> and <command>\dg</> (Markus Bertheau)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Prevent <application>psql</> <command>\dn</command> from showing
        temporary schemas (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <application>psql</> to handle tilde user expansion for file
        names (Zach Irmen)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <application>psql</> to display fancy prompts, including
        color, via <application>readline</> (Reece Hart, Chet Ramey)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make <application>psql</> <command>\copy</> match <command>COPY</command> command syntax
        fully (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Show the location of syntax errors (Fabien Coelho, Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <command>CLUSTER</command> information to <application>psql</>
        <command>\d</> display
        (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Change <application>psql</> <command>\copy stdin/stdout</> to read
        from command input/output (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>pstdin</>/<option>pstdout</> to read from
        <application>psql</>'s <literal>stdin</>/<literal>stdout</> (Mark
        Feit)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add global <application>psql</> configuration file, <filename>psqlrc.sample</filename>
        (Bruce)
       </para>
       <para>
        This allows a central file where global <application>psql</> startup commands can
        be stored.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Have <application>psql</> <command>\d+</> indicate if the table
        has an <type>OID</> column (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        On Windows, use binary mode in <application>psql</> when reading files so control-Z
        is not seen as end-of-file
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Have <command>\dn+</> show permissions and description for schemas (Dennis
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        Bj&ouml;rklund)
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       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve tab completion support (Stefan Kaltenbrunn, Greg Sabino Mullane)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow boolean settings to be set using upper or lower case (Michael Paesold)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title><application>pg_dump</> Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use dependency information to improve the reliability of
        <application>pg_dump</> (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This should solve the longstanding problems with related objects
        sometimes being dumped in the wrong order.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Have <application>pg_dump</> output objects in alphabetical order if possible (Tom)
       </para>
       <para>
        This should make it easier to identify changes between
        dump files.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <application>pg_restore</> to ignore some SQL errors (Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
       <para>
        This makes <application>pg_restore</>'s behavior similar to the
        results of feeding a <application>pg_dump</> output script to
        <application>psql</>. In most cases, ignoring errors and plowing
        ahead is the most useful thing to do. Also added was a pg_restore
        option to give the old behavior of exiting on an error.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <application>pg_restore</> <option>-l</> display now includes
        objects' schema names
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New begin/end markers in <application>pg_dump</> text output (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add start/stop times for
        <application>pg_dump</>/<application>pg_dumpall</> in verbose mode
        (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow most <application>pg_dump</> options in
        <application>pg_dumpall</> (Christopher)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Have <application>pg_dump</> use <command>ALTER OWNER</> rather
        than <command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</> by default
        (Christopher)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>libpq Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make libpq's <option>SIGPIPE</> handling thread-safe (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>PQmbdsplen()</> which returns the display length
        of a character (Tatsuo)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add thread locking to <application>SSL</> and
        <application>Kerberos</> connections (Manfred Spraul)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <function>PQoidValue()</>, <function>PQcmdTuples()</>, and
        <function>PQoidStatus()</> to work on <command>EXECUTE</command>
        commands (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>PQserverVersion()</> to provide more convenient
        access to the server version number (Greg Sabino Mullane)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <function>PQprepare/PQsendPrepared()</> functions to support
        preparing statements without necessarily specifying the data types
        of their parameters (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Many ECPG improvements, including <command>SET DESCRIPTOR</> (Michael)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Source Code Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow the database server to run natively on Windows (Claudio, Magnus, Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Shell script commands converted to C versions for Windows support (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Create an extension makefile framework (Fabien Coelho, Peter)
       </para>
       <para>
        This simplifies the task of building extensions outside the original
        source tree.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Support relocatable installations (Bruce)
       </para>
       <para>
        Directory paths for installed files (such as the
        <filename>/share</> directory) are now computed relative to the
        actual location of the executables, so that an installation tree
        can be moved to another place without reconfiguring and
        rebuilding.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use <option>--with-docdir</> to choose installation location of documentation; also
        allow <option>--infodir</> (Peter)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add <option>--without-docdir</> to prevent installation of documentation (Peter)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Upgrade to <application>DocBook</> V4.2 SGML (Peter)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <literal>PostgreSQL</> <application>CVS</> tag (Marc)
       </para>
       <para>
        This was done to make it easier for organizations to manage their
        own copies of the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
        <application>CVS</> repository. File version stamps from the master
        repository will not get munged by checking into or out of a copied
        repository.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Clarify locking code (Manfred Koizar)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Buffer manager cleanup (Neil)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Decouple platform tests from CPU spinlock code (Bruce, Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add inlined test-and-set code on PA-RISC for <application>gcc</>
        (ViSolve, Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improve i386 spinlock code (Manfred Spraul)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Clean up spinlock assembly code to avoid warnings from newer
        <application>gcc</> releases (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove JDBC from source tree; now a separate project
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove the libpgtcl client interface; now a separate project
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        More accurately estimate memory and file descriptor usage (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Improvements to the Mac OS X startup scripts (Ray A.)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <function>fsync()</> test program (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Major documentation improvements (Neil, Peter)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove <application>pg_encoding</application>; not needed
        anymore
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove <application>pg_id</application>; not needed anymore
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Remove <application>initlocation</application>; not needed
        anymore
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Auto-detect thread flags (no more manual testing) (Bruce)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Use Olson's public domain <application>timezone</> library (Magnus)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        With threading enabled, use thread flags on Unixware for 
        backend executables too (Bruce)
       </para>
       <para>
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        same executable, so everything must be compiled as threaded.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <application>psql</> now uses a <application>flex</>-generated
        lexical analyzer to process command strings
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the
        backend (Neil)
       </para>
       <para>
        This improves performance by allowing list append and length
        operations to be more efficient.
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow dynamically loaded modules to create their own server configuration
        parameters (Thomas Hallgren)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New Brazilian version of FAQ (Euler Taveira de Oliveira)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add French FAQ (Guillaume Lelarge)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <application>pgevent</> for Windows logging
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Make libpq and ECPG build as proper shared libraries on OS X (Tom)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
  
    <sect3>
     <title>Contrib Changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Overhaul of <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Joe)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        <filename>contrib/dbmirror</> improvements (Steven Singer)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <filename>contrib/xml2</> (John Gray, Torchbox)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Updated <filename>contrib/mysql</filename>
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New version of <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> (Teodor)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        New <filename>contrib/trgm</>, trigram matching for
        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> (Teodor)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Many <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> improvements (Teodor)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add double metaphone to <filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</> (Andrew)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Allow <filename>contrib/pg_autovacuum</> to run as a Windows service (Dave Page)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Add functions to <filename>contrib/dbsize</> (Andreas Pflug)
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Removed <filename>contrib/pg_logger</>: obsoleted by integrated logging
        subprocess
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Removed <filename>contrib/rserv</>: obsoleted by various separate projects
       </para>
      </listitem>
  
     </itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
  
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-11">
   <title>Release 7.4.11</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2006-01-09</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.10.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.11</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.8, see the release
     notes for 7.4.8.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix for protocol-level describe portal statements issued
outside a transaction (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix character set sorting for locales that consider
different character combinations to have the same sorting, e.g.
Hungarian. (Tom) </para><para>This might require <command>REINDEX</> in
those locales to fix  existing indexes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix long standing Asian multibyte charsets bug (Tatsuo)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <filename>/contrib/dblink</> to throw an error
when the number of columns specified is different from those returned
by the query (Joe)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Set <literal>LC_XXX</> variables to prevent problems
with <application>plperl</> processing (Tom)</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-10">
   <title>Release 7.4.10</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-12-12</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.9.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.10</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.8, see the release
     notes for 7.4.8.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix race condition in transaction log management</para>
<para>There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be initiated
for the wrong page, leading to an Assert failure or data
corruption.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Prevent failure if client sends Bind protocol message
when current transaction is already aborted</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><filename>/contrib/ltree</> fixes (Teodor)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>AIX and HPUX compile fixes (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix longstanding planning error for outer joins</para>
<para>This bug sometimes caused a bogus error <quote>RIGHT JOIN is
only supported with merge-joinable join conditions</>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Prevent core dump in <application>pg_autovacuum</> when a
table has been dropped</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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   <title>Release 7.4.9</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.8.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.9</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.8, see the release
     notes for 7.4.8.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix error that allowed <command>VACUUM</> to remove
<literal>ctid</> chains too soon, and add more checking in code that follows
<literal>ctid</> links</para>
<para>This fixes a long-standing problem that could cause crashes in very rare
circumstances.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <type>CHAR()</> to properly pad spaces to the specified
length when using a multiple-byte character set (Yoshiyuki Asaba)</para>
<para>In prior releases, the padding of <type>CHAR()</> was incorrect
because it only padded to the specified number of bytes without
considering how many characters were stored.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix the sense of the test for read-only transaction
in <command>COPY</></para>
<para>The code formerly prohibited <command>COPY TO</>, where it should
prohibit <command>COPY FROM</>.
</para></listitem>
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only the inner-side relation</para></listitem>
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cases</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <function>array_in</> and <function>array_recv</> more
paranoid about validating their OID parameter</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix missing rows in queries like <literal>UPDATE a=... WHERE
a...</> with GiST index on column <literal>a</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve robustness of datetime parsing</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve checking for partially-written WAL
pages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve robustness of signal handling when SSL is
enabled</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't try to open more than <literal>max_files_per_process</>
files during postmaster startup</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various memory leakage fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various portability improvements</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/PgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
the variable is of pass-by-reference type</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to use current Snowball
code</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
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   <title>Release 7.4.8</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.7, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.8</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.  However,
     it is one possible way of handling two significant security problems
     that have been found in the initial contents of 7.4.X system
     catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 7.4.8's initdb will
     automatically correct these problems.
    </para>

    <para>
     The larger security problem is that the built-in character set encoding
     conversion functions can be invoked from SQL commands by unprivileged
     users, but the functions were not designed for such use and are not
     secure against malicious choices of arguments.  The fix involves changing
     the declared parameter list of these functions so that they can no longer
     be invoked from SQL commands.  (This does not affect their normal use
     by the encoding conversion machinery.)
    </para>

    <para>
     The lesser problem is that the <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> module
     creates several functions that are misdeclared to return
     <type>internal</> when they do not accept <type>internal</> arguments.
     This breaks type safety for all functions using <type>internal</>
     arguments.
    </para>

    <para>
     It is strongly recommended that all installations repair these errors,
     either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedures given
     below.  The errors at least allow unprivileged database users to crash
     their server process, and may allow unprivileged users to gain the
     privileges of a database superuser.
    </para>

    <para>
     If you wish not to do an initdb, perform the following procedures instead.
     As the database superuser, do:

<programlisting>
BEGIN;
UPDATE pg_proc SET proargtypes[3] = 'internal'::regtype
WHERE pronamespace = 11 AND pronargs = 5
      AND proargtypes[2] = 'cstring'::regtype;
-- The command should report having updated 90 rows;
-- if not, rollback and investigate instead of committing!
COMMIT;
</programlisting>

     Next, if you have installed <filename>contrib/tsearch2</>, do

<programlisting>
BEGIN;
UPDATE pg_proc SET proargtypes[0] = 'internal'::regtype
WHERE oid IN (
    'dex_init(text)'::regprocedure,
    'snb_en_init(text)'::regprocedure,
    'snb_ru_init(text)'::regprocedure,
    'spell_init(text)'::regprocedure,
    'syn_init(text)'::regprocedure
);
-- The command should report having updated 5 rows;
-- if not, rollback and investigate instead of committing!
COMMIT;
</programlisting>

     If this command fails with a message like <quote>function
     "dex_init(text)" does not exist</>, then either <filename>tsearch2</>
     is not installed in this database, or you already did the update.
    </para>

    <para>
     The above procedures must be carried out in <emphasis>each</> database
     of an installation, including <literal>template1</>, and ideally
     including <literal>template0</> as well.  If you do not fix the
     template databases then any subsequently created databases will contain
     the same errors.  <literal>template1</> can be fixed in the same way
     as any other database, but fixing <literal>template0</> requires
     additional steps.  First, from any database issue
<programlisting>
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = true WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
      Next connect to <literal>template0</> and perform the above repair
      procedures.  Finally, do
<programlisting>
-- re-freeze template0:
VACUUM FREEZE;
-- and protect it against future alterations:
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Change encoding function signature to prevent
misuse</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to avoid unsafe use of
<type>INTERNAL</> function results</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</para>
<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</para>
<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix comparisons of <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para>
<para>
The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
NOTE: if you have an index on a <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> column,
it will need to be <command>REINDEX</>ed after installing this update, because
the fix corrects the sort order of column values.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</> for
<type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix mis-display of negative fractional seconds in
<type>INTERVAL</> values</para>
<para>
This error only occurred when the
<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure operations done during backend shutdown are counted by
statistics collector</para>
<para>
 This is expected to resolve reports of <application>pg_autovacuum</>
 not vacuuming the system catalogs often enough &mdash; it was not being
 told about catalog deletions caused by temporary table removal during
 backend exit.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql
(Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to dump trigger names containing <literal>%</>
correctly (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> for newer OpenSSL builds
(Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Still more 64-bit fixes for
<filename>contrib/intagg</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent incorrect optimization of functions returning
<type>RECORD</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent <function>to_char(interval)</> from dumping core for
month-related formats</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent crash on <literal>COALESCE(NULL,NULL)</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>array_map</> to call PL functions correctly</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix permission checking in <command>ALTER DATABASE RENAME</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <command>ALTER LANGUAGE RENAME</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <function>RemoveFromWaitQueue</> clean up after itself</para>
<para>
This fixes a lock management error that would only be visible if a transaction
was kicked out of a wait for a lock (typically by query cancel) and then the
holder of the lock released it within a very narrow window.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with untyped parameter appearing in
<command>INSERT ... SELECT</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <command>CLUSTER</> failure after
<command>ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS</></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-7">
   <title>Release 7.4.7</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-01-31</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.6, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.7</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Disallow <command>LOAD</> to non-superusers</para>
<para>
On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
<command>LOAD</> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code.
Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check that creator of an aggregate function has the right to
execute the specified transition functions</para>
<para>
This oversight made it possible to bypass denial of EXECUTE
permission on a function.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix security and 64-bit issues in
contrib/intagg</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
Jurka)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
many parameters (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</para>
<para>
The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix plperl for quote marks in tuple fields</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN
datestyles</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make age(timestamptz) do calculation in local timezone not
GMT</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-6">
   <title>Release 7.4.6</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-10-22</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.5.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.6</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk</para>
<para>
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to 
<quote>could not access transaction status</> failures, which qualifies
it as a potential-data-loss bug.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples</para>
<para>
Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output unmatched
left-side rows given just the right data distribution.
</para></listitem>
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<para>
This is to guard against any possible security issues.
</para></listitem>
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<para>
This has been reported as a security issue, though it's hardly worthy of
concern since there is no reason for non-developers to use this script anyway.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent forced backend shutdown from re-emitting prior command
result</para>
<para>
In rare cases, a client might think that its last command had succeeded when
it really had been aborted by forced database shutdown.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Repair bug in <function>pg_stat_get_backend_idset</function></para>
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<para>
This could lead to misbehavior in some of the system-statistics views.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix small memory leak in postmaster</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <quote>expected both swapped tables to have TOAST
tables</> bug</para>
<para>
This could arise in cases such as CLUSTER after ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent <literal>pg_ctl restart</> from adding <literal>-D</> multiple times</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with NULL values in GiST indexes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>::</> is no longer interpreted as a variable in an
ECPG prepare statement</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-5">
   <title>Release 7.4.5</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-08-18</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains one serious bug fix over 7.4.4.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.5</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Repair possible crash during concurrent B-tree index insertions</para>
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<para>
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could result in a server panic.  No permanent damage would result, but it's
still worth a re-release.  The bug does not exist in pre-7.4 releases.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-4">
   <title>Release 7.4.4</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.3.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.4</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart.  This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Check HAVING restriction before evaluating result list of an
aggregate plan</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avoid crash when session's current user ID is deleted</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix hashed crosstab for zero-rows case (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force cache update after renaming a column in a foreign key</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Pretty-print UNION queries correctly</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Make psql handle <literal>\r\n</> newlines properly in COPY IN</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><application>pg_dump</> handled ACLs with grant options incorrectly</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix thread support for OS X and Solaris</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Updated JDBC driver (build 215) with various fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPG fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Translation updates (various contributors)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-3">
   <title>Release 7.4.3</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-06-14</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.2.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.3</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Fix temporary memory leak when using non-hashed aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPG fixes, including some for Informix compatibility (Michael)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix error in COPY IN termination when using the old network protocol (ljb)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Several important fixes in pg_autovacuum, including fixes for
large tables, unsigned oids, stability, temp tables, and debug mode
(Matthew T. O'Connor)</para></listitem> 
<listitem><para>Fix problem with reading tar-format dumps on NetBSD and BSD/OS (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Repair failure to recalculate nested sub-selects (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with non-constant expressions in LIMIT/OFFSET</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix another zero-column table bug (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve handling of non-qualified identifiers in GROUP BY clauses in sub-selects (Tom)</para>
<para>
Select-list aliases within the sub-select will now take precedence over
names from outer query levels.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Do not generate <quote>NATURAL CROSS JOIN</> when decompiling rules (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add checks for invalid field length in binary COPY (Tom)</para>
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<para>
  This fixes a difficult-to-exploit security hole.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avoid locking conflict between <command>ANALYZE</command> and <command>LISTEN</command>/<command>NOTIFY</command></para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>

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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-2">
   <title>Release 7.4.2</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.1.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.4.2</title>

    <para>
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     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.  However,
     it may be advisable as the easiest method of incorporating fixes for
     two errors that have been found in the initial contents of 7.4.X system
     catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 7.4.2's initdb will
     automatically correct these problems.
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    </para>

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    <para>
     The more severe of the two errors is that data type <type>anyarray</>
     has the wrong alignment label; this is a problem because the
     <structname>pg_statistic</> system catalog uses <type>anyarray</>
     columns.  The mislabeling can cause planner misestimations and even
     crashes when planning queries that involve <literal>WHERE</> clauses on
     double-aligned columns (such as <type>float8</> and <type>timestamp</>).
     It is strongly recommended that all installations repair this error,
     either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedure given
     below.
    </para>

    <para>
     The lesser error is that the system view <structname>pg_settings</>
     ought to be marked as having public update access, to allow
     <literal>UPDATE pg_settings</> to be used as a substitute for
     <command>SET</>.  This can also be fixed either by initdb or manually,
     but it is not necessary to fix unless you want to use <literal>UPDATE
     pg_settings</>.
    </para>

    <para>
     If you wish not to do an initdb, the following procedure will work
     for fixing <structname>pg_statistic</>.  As the database superuser,
     do:

<programlisting>
-- clear out old data in pg_statistic:
DELETE FROM pg_statistic;
VACUUM pg_statistic;
-- this should update 1 row:
UPDATE pg_type SET typalign = 'd' WHERE oid = 2277;
-- this should update 6 rows:
UPDATE pg_attribute SET attalign = 'd' WHERE atttypid = 2277;
--     
-- At this point you MUST start a fresh backend to avoid a crash!
--
-- repopulate pg_statistic:
ANALYZE;
</programlisting>

     This can be done in a live database, but beware that all backends
     running in the altered database must be restarted before it is safe to
     repopulate <structname>pg_statistic</>.
    </para>

    <para>
     To repair the <structname>pg_settings</> error, simply do:
<programlisting>
GRANT SELECT, UPDATE ON pg_settings TO PUBLIC;
</programlisting>
    </para>

    <para>
     The above procedures must be carried out in <emphasis>each</> database
     of an installation, including <literal>template1</>, and ideally
     including <literal>template0</> as well.  If you do not fix the
     template databases then any subsequently created databases will contain
     the same errors.  <literal>template1</> can be fixed in the same way
     as any other database, but fixing <literal>template0</> requires
     additional steps.  First, from any database issue
<programlisting>
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = true WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
      Next connect to <literal>template0</> and perform the above repair
      procedures.  Finally, do
<programlisting>
-- re-freeze template0:
VACUUM FREEZE;
-- and protect it against future alterations:
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
    </para>
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   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

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<para>
    Release 7.4.2 incorporates all the fixes included in release 7.3.6,
    plus the following fixes:
</para>
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<listitem><para>Fix <structname>pg_statistics</> alignment bug that could crash optimizer</para>
<para>See above for details about this problem.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow non-super users to update <structname>pg_settings</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix several optimizer bugs, most of which led to
<quote>variable not found in subplan target lists</> errors</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid out-of-memory failure during startup of large multiple
index scan</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix multibyte problem that could lead to <quote>out of
memory</> error during <command>COPY IN</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with <command>SELECT INTO</> / <command>CREATE
TABLE AS</> from tables without OIDs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with <filename>alter_table</> regression test
during parallel testing</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with hitting open file limit, especially on OS X (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Partial fix for Turkish-locale issues</para>
<para>initdb will succeed now in Turkish locale, but there are still some
inconveniences associated with the <literal>i/I</> problem.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_dump set client encoding on restore</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Other minor pg_dump fixes</para></listitem>
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<literal>SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE</> (Michael)</para></listitem> 
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<listitem><para>Fixes for Borland compiler</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Thread build improvements (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Various JDBC fixes</para></listitem>
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  </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-4-1">
   <title>Release 7.4.1</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   <para>
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   </para>


   <sect2>
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    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
     running 7.4.
    </para>
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    <para>
     If you want to install the fixes in the information schema
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     you need to reload it into the database.
     This is either accomplished by initializing a new cluster
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     by running <command>initdb</command>, or by running the following
     sequence of SQL commands in each database (ideally including
     <literal>template1</literal>) as a superuser in
     <application>psql</application>, after installing the new release:
<programlisting>
DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
\i /usr/local/pgsql/share/information_schema.sql
</programlisting>
     Substitute your installation path in the second command.
    </para>

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   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Fix compile error when <option>--enable-thread-safety</option> and <option>--with-perl</option> are used together (Peter)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom)</para>
<para>
    Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of
    improperly shared structures.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix free space map compaction bug (Tom)</para>
<para>
    This fixes a bug where compaction of the free space map could lead
    to a database server shutdown.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<para>
    Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4
    releases.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
    Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum after
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined (Tom)</para>
<para>
    Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password
    authentication when no passwords were defined.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Make <function>PQescapeBytea</function> and <function>byteaout</function> consistent with each other (Joe)</para></listitem>
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  is possible for <type>bytea</type> values to be corrupted by the differing
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix information schema view <literal>constraint_column_usage</literal> for foreign keys (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPG fixes (Michael)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bug with multiple <literal>IN</literal> subqueries and joins in the subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
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  By installing them in their own directory, name conflicts have been reduced.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix SSL memory leak (Neil)</para>
<para>
  This release fixes a bug in 7.4 where SSL didn't free all memory it allocated.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix local ident authentication on FreeBSD (Tom)</para></listitem>
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  </sect2>
 </sect1>

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  <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2003-11-17</simpara>
  </note>

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   <title>Overview</title>
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   <para>
    Major changes in this release:
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   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term>
      <literal>IN</literal> / <literal>NOT IN</literal> subqueries are
      now much more efficient
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       In previous releases, <literal>IN</literal>/<literal>NOT
       IN</literal> subqueries were joined to the upper query by
       sequentially scanning the subquery looking for a match.  The
       7.4 code uses the same sophisticated techniques used by
       ordinary joins and so is much faster.  An
       <literal>IN</literal> will now usually be as fast as or faster
       than an equivalent <literal>EXISTS</literal> subquery; this
       reverses the conventional wisdom that applied to previous
       releases.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Improved <literal>GROUP BY</literal> processing by using hash buckets
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       In previous releases, rows to be grouped had to be sorted
       first.  The 7.4 code can do <literal>GROUP BY</literal>
       without sorting, by accumulating results into a hash table
       with one entry per group.  It will still use the sort
       technique, however, if the hash table is estimated to be too
       large to fit in <varname>sort_mem</>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      New multikey hash join capability
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       In previous releases, hash joins could only occur on single
       keys.  This release allows multicolumn hash joins.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Queries using the explicit <literal>JOIN</literal> syntax are
      now better optimized
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Prior releases evaluated queries using the explicit
       <literal>JOIN</literal> syntax only in the order implied by
       the syntax. 7.4 allows full optimization of these queries,
       meaning the optimizer considers all possible join orderings
       and chooses the most efficient.  Outer joins, however, must
       still follow the declared ordering.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Faster and more powerful regular expression code
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <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>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Function-inlining for simple SQL functions
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Simple SQL functions can now be inlined by including their SQL
       in the main query.  This improves performance by eliminating
       per-call overhead.  That means simple SQL functions now
       behave like macros.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address data types
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Previous releases allowed only IPv4 connections, and the IP
       data types only supported IPv4 addresses. This release adds
       full IPv6 support in both of these areas.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Major improvements in SSL performance and reliability
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Several people very familiar with the SSL API have overhauled
       our SSL code to improve SSL key negotiation and error
       recovery.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Make free space map efficiently reuse empty index pages,
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       In previous releases, B-tree index pages that were left empty
       because of deleted rows could only be reused by rows with
       index values similar to the rows originally indexed on that
       page. In 7.4, <command>VACUUM</command> records empty index
       pages and allows them to be reused for any future index rows.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      SQL-standard information schema
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      <para>
       The information schema provides a standardized and stable way
       to access information about the schema objects defined in a
       database.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
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      <para>
       The commands <command>FETCH</command> and
       <command>MOVE</command> have been overhauled to conform more
       closely to the SQL standard.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Cursors can exist outside transactions
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      <para>
       These cursors are also called holdable cursors.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      New client-to-server protocol
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       The new protocol adds error codes, more status information,
       faster startup, better support for binary data transmission,
       parameter values separated from SQL commands, prepared
       statements available at the protocol level, and cleaner
       recovery from <command>COPY</command> failures.  The older
       protocol is still supported by both server and clients.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      <application>libpq</application> and
      <application>ECPG</application> applications are now fully
      thread-safe
     </term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       While previous <application>libpq</application> releases
       already supported threads, this release improves thread safety
       by fixing some non-thread-safe code that was used during
       database connection startup.  The <command>configure</command>
       option <option>--enable-thread-safety</option> must be used to
       enable this feature.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       A new full-text indexing suite is available in
       <filename>contrib/tsearch2</filename>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
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      <para>
       The new autovacuum tool in
       <filename>contrib/autovacuum</filename> monitors the database
       statistics tables for
       <command>INSERT</command>/<command>UPDATE</command>/<command>DELETE</command>
       activity and automatically vacuums tables when needed.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>
      Array handling has been improved and moved into the server core
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      <para>
       Many array limitations have been removed, and arrays behave
       more like fully-supported data types.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
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    required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
    release.
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   <para>
    Observe the following incompatibilities:
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   </para>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      The server-side autocommit setting was removed and
      reimplemented in client applications and languages.
      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 APIs as appropriate.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Error message wording has changed substantially in this
      release.  Significant effort was invested to make the messages
      more consistent and user-oriented.  If your applications try to
      detect different error conditions by parsing the error message,
      you are strongly encouraged to use the new error code facility instead.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Inner joins using the explicit <literal>JOIN</literal> syntax
      may behave differently because they are now better
      optimized.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      A number of server configuration parameters have been renamed
      for clarity, primarily those related to
      logging.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <literal>FETCH 0</literal> or <literal>MOVE 0</literal> now
      does nothing.  In prior releases, <literal>FETCH 0</literal>
      would fetch all remaining rows, and <literal>MOVE 0</literal>
      would move to the end of the cursor.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <command>FETCH</command> and <command>MOVE</command> now return
      the actual number of rows fetched/moved, or zero if at the
      beginning/end of the cursor.  Prior releases would return the
      row count passed to the command, not the number of rows
      actually fetched or moved.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <command>COPY</command> now can process files that use
      carriage-return or carriage-return/line-feed end-of-line
      sequences. Literal carriage-returns and line-feeds are no
      longer accepted in data values; use <literal>\r</literal> and
      <literal>\n</literal> instead.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Trailing spaces are now trimmed when converting from type
      <type>char(<replaceable>n</>)</type> to
      <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</>)</type> or <type>text</type>.
      This is what most people always expected to happen anyway.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      The data type <type>float(<replaceable>p</>)</type> now
      measures <replaceable>p</> in binary digits, not decimal
      digits.  The new behavior follows the SQL standard.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Ambiguous date values now must match the ordering specified by
      the <varname>datestyle</varname> setting.  In prior releases, a
      date specification of <literal>10/20/03</> was interpreted as a
      date in October even if <varname>datestyle</> specified that
      the day should be first.  7.4 will throw an error if a date
      specification is invalid for the current setting of
      <varname>datestyle</>.
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     <para>
      The functions <function>oidrand</function>,
      <function>oidsrand</function>, and
      <function>userfntest</function> have been removed.  These
      functions were determined to be no longer useful.
     </para>
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     <para>
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      as <literal>'now'</literal> or <literal>'today'</literal> will
      no longer work as expected in column default expressions; they
      now cause the time of the table creation to be the default, not
      the time of the insertion.  Functions such as
      <function>now()</>, <function>current_timestamp</>, or
      <function>current_date</function> should be used instead.
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      In previous releases, there was special code so that strings
      such as <literal>'now'</literal> were interpreted at
      <command>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 functions such
      as <function>now()</> or <function>current_timestamp</>. These
      will work in all situations.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      The dollar sign (<literal>$</>) is no longer allowed in
      operator names.  It can instead be a non-first character in
      identifiers.  This was done to improve compatibility with other
      database systems, and to avoid syntax problems when parameter
      placeholders (<literal>$<replaceable>n</></>) are written
      adjacent to operators.
     </para>
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  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <para>
    Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
    release 7.4 and the previous major release.
   </para>

  <sect3>
   <title>Server Operation Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow IPv6 server connections (Nigel Kukard, Johan Jordaan,
      Bruce, Tom, Kurt Roeckx, Andrew Dunstan)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller)
     </para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, certain SSL API error reports were not
      handled correctly.  This release fixes those problems.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      SSL protocol security and performance improvements (Sean Chittenden)
     </para>
     <para>
      SSL key renegotiation was happening too frequently, causing poor
      SSL performance.  Also, initial key handling was improved.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
      This allows easier debugging of deadlock situations.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Update <filename>/tmp</filename> socket modification times
      regularly to avoid their removal (Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
      This should help prevent <filename>/tmp</filename> directory
      cleaner administration scripts from removing server socket
      files.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Enable PAM for Mac OS X (Aaron Hillegass)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Make B-tree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, under certain rare cases, a server crash
      could cause B-tree indexes to become corrupt. This release
      removes those last few rare cases.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow B-tree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix inconsistent index lookups during split of first root page (Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, when a single-page index split into two
      pages, there was a brief period when another database session
      could miss seeing an index entry.  This release fixes that rare
      failure case.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Improve free space map allocation logic (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Preserve free space information between server restarts (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, the free space map was not saved when the
      postmaster was stopped, so newly started servers had no free
      space information. This release saves the free space map, and
      reloads it when the server is restarted.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Add start time to <literal>pg_stat_activity</literal> (Neil)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New code to detect corrupt disk pages; erase with <varname>zero_damaged_pages</varname> (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New client/server protocol: faster, no username length limit, allow clean exit from <command>COPY</command> (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add transaction status, table ID, column ID to client/server protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add binary I/O to client/server protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Remove autocommit server setting; move to client applications (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New error message wording, error codes, and three levels of error detail (Tom, Joe, Peter)</para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Performance Improvements</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>Add hashing for <literal>GROUP BY</literal> aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Make nested-loop joins be smarter about multicolumn indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow multikey hash joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <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>
     <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>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom)</para>
     <para>
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      manages potential query paths.
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow <literal>IN</>/<literal>NOT IN</> to be handled via hash
      tables (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improve <literal>NOT IN (<replaceable>subquery</>)</literal>
      performance (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow most <literal>IN</literal> subqueries to be processed as
      joins (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Pattern matching operations can use indexes regardless of
      locale (Peter)
     </para>
     <para>
      There is no way for non-ASCII locales to use the standard
      indexes for <literal>LIKE</literal> comparisons. This release
      adds a way to create a special index for
      <literal>LIKE</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow the postmaster to preload libraries using <varname>preload_libraries</varname> (Joe)</para>
     <para>
      For shared libraries that require a long time to load, this
      option is available so the library can be preloaded in the
      postmaster and inherited by all database sessions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improve optimizer cost computations, particularly for subqueries (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Avoid sort when subquery <literal>ORDER BY</literal> matches upper query (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Deduce that <literal>WHERE a.x = b.y AND b.y = 42</literal> also
      means <literal>a.x = 42</literal> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow hash/merge joins on complex joins (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow hash joins for more data types (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow join optimization of explicit inner joins, disable with
      <varname>join_collapse_limit</varname> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add parameter <varname>from_collapse_limit</varname> to control
      conversion of subqueries to joins (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <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 connection startup time (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      The new client/server protocol requires fewer network packets to
      start a database session.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improve speed of <literal>col IN (const, const, const, ...)</literal> (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>
     <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 B-tree and hash index performance.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Align shared buffers on 32-byte boundary for copy speed improvement (Manfred Spraul)</para>
     <para>
      Certain CPU's perform faster data copies when addresses are
      32-byte aligned.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Data type <type>numeric</type> reimplemented for better performance (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      <type>numeric</type> used to be stored in base 100. The new code
      uses base 10000, for significantly better performance.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Server Configuration Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>Rename server parameter <varname>server_min_messages</> to <varname>log_min_messages</> (Bruce)</para>
     <para>
      This was done so most parameters that control the server logs
      begin with <literal>log_</>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Rename <varname>show_*_stats</> to <varname>log_*_stats</> (Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Rename <varname>show_source_port</> to <varname>log_source_port</> (Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Rename <varname>hostname_lookup</> to <varname>log_hostname</> (Bruce)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <varname>checkpoint_warning</> to warn of excessive checkpointing (Bruce)</para>
     <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>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>New read-only server parameters for localization (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Change debug server log messages to output as <literal>DEBUG</>
      rather than <literal>LOG</> (Bruce)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Prevent server log variables from being turned off by non-superusers (Bruce)</para>
     <para>
      This is a security feature so non-superusers cannot disable
      logging that was enabled by the administrator.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      <varname>log_min_messages</>/<varname>client_min_messages</> now
      controls <varname>debug_*</> output (Bruce)
     </para>
     <para>
      This centralizes client debug information so all debug output
      can be sent to either the client or server logs.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add Mac OS X Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell)</para>
     <para>
      This allows Mac OS X hosts to query the network for available
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add ability to print only slow statements using
      <varname>log_min_duration_statement</varname>
      (Christopher)
     </para>
     <para>
      This is an often requested debugging feature that allows
      administrators to see only slow queries in their server logs.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan)</para>
     <para>
      This allows administrators to merge the host IP address and
      netmask fields into a single CIDR field in <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>New read-only parameter <varname>is_superuser</varname> (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>New parameter <varname>log_error_verbosity</varname> to control error detail (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      This works with the new error reporting feature to supply
      additional error information like hints, file names and line
      numbers.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para><literal>postgres --describe-config</literal> now dumps server config variables (Aizaz Ahmed, Peter)</para>
     <para>
      This option is useful for administration tools that need to know
      the configuration variable names and their minimums, maximums,
      defaults, and descriptions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add new columns in <literal>pg_settings</literal>:
      <literal>context</>, <literal>type</>, <literal>source</>,
      <literal>min_val</>, <literal>max_val</> (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make default <varname>shared_buffers</> 1000 and
      <varname>max_connections</> 100, if possible (Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
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      amount of shared memory allowed by the platform and selects more
      reasonable default values if possible.  Of course, users are
      still encouraged to evaluate their resource load and size
      <varname>shared_buffers</varname> accordingly.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      New <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> record type
      <literal>hostnossl</> to prevent SSL connections (Jon
      Jensen)
     </para>
     <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>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Remove parameter <varname>geqo_random_seed</varname>
      (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add server parameter <varname>regex_flavor</varname> to control regular expression processing (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make <command>pg_ctl</command> better handle nonstandard ports (Greg)
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Query Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>New SQL-standard information schema (Peter)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add read-only transactions (Peter)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Print key name and value in foreign-key violation messages (Dmitry Tkach)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow users to see their own queries in <literal>pg_stat_activity</literal> (Kevin Brown)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, only the superuser could see query strings
      using <literal>pg_stat_activity</literal>. Now ordinary users
      can see their own query strings.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Fix aggregates in subqueries to match SQL standard (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      The SQL standard says that an aggregate function appearing
      within a nested subquery belongs to the outer query if its
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      <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> releases did not handle
      this fine point correctly.
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add option to prevent auto-addition of tables referenced in query (Nigel J. Andrews)</para>
     <para>
      By default, tables mentioned in the query are automatically
      added to the <literal>FROM</> clause if they are not already
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      <productname>POSTGRES</productname> behavior but is contrary to
      the SQL standard.  This option allows selecting
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     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <literal>UPDATE ... SET col = DEFAULT</literal> (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      This allows <command>UPDATE</command> to set a column to its
      declared default value.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow expressions to be used in <literal>LIMIT</>/<literal>OFFSET</> (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, <literal>LIMIT</>/<literal>OFFSET</> could
      only use constants, not expressions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Implement <literal>CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE</literal> (Neil, Peter)</para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Object Manipulation Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
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    <listitem>
     <para>Add statement-level triggers (Neil)</para>
     <para>
      While this allows a trigger to fire at the end of a statement,
      it does not allow the trigger to access all rows modified by the
      statement.  This capability is planned for a future release.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add check constraints for domains (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      This greatly increases the usefulness of domains by allowing
      them to use check constraints.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <command>ALTER DOMAIN</command> (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      This allows manipulation of existing domains.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Fix several zero-column table bugs (Tom)</para>
     <para>
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     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Have <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY</literal> add not-null constraint (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ADD
      PRIMARY</literal> would add a unique index, but not a not-null
      constraint.  That is fixed in this release.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Add <literal>ALTER TABLE ... WITHOUT OIDS</literal> (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      This allows control over whether new and updated rows will have
      an OID column.  This is most useful for saving storage space.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add <literal>ALTER SEQUENCE</literal> to modify minimum, maximum,
      increment, cache, cycle values (Rod)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <literal>ALTER TABLE ... CLUSTER ON</literal> (Alvaro Herrera)</para>
     <para>
      This command is used by <command>pg_dump</command> to record the
      cluster column for each table previously clustered. This
      information is used by database-wide cluster to cluster all
      previously clustered tables.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Improve automatic type casting for domains (Rod, Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow dollar signs in identifiers, except as first character (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Disallow dollar signs in operator names, so <literal>x=$1</> works (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow copying table schema using <literal>LIKE
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      feature <literal>INCLUDING DEFAULTS</literal> (Rod)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add <literal>WITH GRANT OPTION</literal> clause to
      <command>GRANT</command> (Peter)
     </para>
     <para>
      This enabled <command>GRANT</command> to give other users the
      ability to grant privileges on a object.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Utility Command Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>Add <literal>ON COMMIT</literal> clause to <command>CREATE TABLE</command> for temporary tables (Gavin)</para>
     <para>
      This adds the ability for a table to be dropped or all rows
      deleted on transaction commit.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow cursors outside transactions using <literal>WITH HOLD</literal> (Neil)</para>
     <para>
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      transaction that created them. Cursors can now be created with
      the <literal>WITH HOLD</literal> option, which allows them to
      continue to be accessed after the creating transaction has
      committed.
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     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para><literal>FETCH 0</literal> and <literal>MOVE 0 </literal> now do nothing (Bruce)</para>
     <para>
      In previous releases, <literal>FETCH 0</literal> fetched all
      remaining rows, and <literal>MOVE 0</literal> moved to the end
      of the cursor.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Cause <command>FETCH</command> and <command>MOVE</command> to
      return the number of rows fetched/moved, or zero if at the
      beginning/end of cursor, per SQL standard (Bruce)
     </para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, the row count returned by
      <command>FETCH</command> and <command>MOVE</command> did not
      accurately reflect the number of rows processed.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Properly handle <literal>SCROLL</literal> with cursors, or
     report an error (Neil)</para>
     <para>
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      Allowing random access (both forward and backward scrolling) to
      some kinds of queries cannot be done without some additional
      work. If <literal>SCROLL</literal> is specified when the cursor
      is created, this additional work will be performed. Furthermore,
      if the cursor has been created with <literal>NO SCROLL</literal>,
      no random access is allowed.
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
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      <literal>LAST</>, <literal>ABSOLUTE <replaceable>n</></>,
      <literal>RELATIVE <replaceable>n</></> for
      <command>FETCH</command> and <command>MOVE</command> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <command>EXPLAIN</command> on <command>DECLARE CURSOR</command> (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <command>CLUSTER</command> to use index marked as pre-clustered by default (Alvaro Herrera)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <command>CLUSTER</command> to cluster all tables (Alvaro Herrera)</para>
     <para>
      This allows all previously clustered tables in a database to be
      reclustered with a single command.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Prevent <command>CLUSTER</command> on partial indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow DOS and Mac line-endings in <command>COPY</> files (Bruce)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Disallow literal carriage return as a data value,
      backslash-carriage-return and <literal>\r</> are still allowed
      (Bruce)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para><command>COPY</> changes (binary, <literal>\.</>) (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Recover from <command>COPY</command> failure cleanly (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Prevent possible memory leaks in <command>COPY</command> (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Make <command>TRUNCATE</command> transaction-safe (Rod)</para>
     <para>
      <command>TRUNCATE</command> can now be used inside a
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      <command>TRUNCATE</command> are automatically rolled back.
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow prepare/bind of utility commands like
      <command>FETCH</command> and <command>EXPLAIN</command> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <command>EXPLAIN EXECUTE</command> (Neil)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Improve <command>VACUUM</command> performance on indexes by reducing WAL traffic (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Functional indexes have been generalized into indexes on expressions (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      In prior releases, functional indexes only supported a simple
      function applied to one or more column names.  This release
      allows any type of scalar expression.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Have <command>SHOW TRANSACTION ISOLATION</command> match input
      to <command>SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION</command>
      (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
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     <para>
       Have <command>COMMENT ON DATABASE</command> on nonlocal
       database generate a warning, rather than an error (Rod)
      </para>

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     <para>
      Database comments are stored in database-local tables so
      comments on a database have to be stored in each database.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improve reliability of <command>LISTEN</>/<command>NOTIFY</> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow <command>REINDEX</command> to reliably reindex nonshared system catalog indexes (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      This allows system tables to be reindexed without the
      requirement of a standalone session, which was necessary in
      previous releases. The only tables that now require a standalone
      session for reindexing are the global system tables
      <literal>pg_database</>, <literal>pg_shadow</>, and
      <literal>pg_group</>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Data Type and Function Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      New server parameter <varname>extra_float_digits</varname> to
      control precision display of floating-point numbers (Pedro
      Ferreira, Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
      This controls output precision which was causing regression
      testing problems.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow <literal>+1300</literal> as a numeric time-zone specifier, for FJST (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Remove rarely used functions <function>oidrand</>,
      <function>oidsrand</>, and <function>userfntest</> functions
      (Neil)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <function>md5()</> function to main server, already in <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</filename> (Joe)</para>
     <para>
      An MD5 function was frequently requested. For more complex
      encryption capabilities, use
      <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</filename>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Increase date range of <type>timestamp</type> (John Cochran)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Change <literal>EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp)</literal> so
      <type>timestamp without time zone</type> is assumed to be in
      local time, not GMT (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Trap division by zero in case the operating system doesn't prevent it (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Change the <type>numeric</type> data type internally to base 10000 (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New <function>hostmask()</function> function (Greg Wickham)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Fixes for <function>to_char()</function> and <function>to_timestamp()</function> (Karel)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow functions that can take any argument data type and return
      any data type, using <type>anyelement</type> and
      <type>anyarray</type> (Joe)
     </para>
     <para>
      This allows the creation of functions that can work with any
      data type.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Arrays may now be specified as <literal>ARRAY[1,2,3]</literal>,
      <literal>ARRAY[['a','b'],['c','d']]</literal>, or
      <literal>ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[2]]]</literal> (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow proper comparisons for arrays, including <literal>ORDER
      BY</literal> and <literal>DISTINCT</literal> support
      (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow indexes on array columns (Joe)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow array concatenation with <literal>||</literal> (Joe)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow <literal>WHERE</literal> qualification
      <literal><replaceable>expr</> <replaceable>op</> ANY/SOME/ALL
      (<replaceable>array_expr</>)</literal> (Joe)
     </para>
     <para>
      This allows arrays to behave like a list of values, for purposes
      like <literal>SELECT * FROM tab WHERE col IN
      (array_val)</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      New array functions <function>array_append</>,
      <function>array_cat</>, <function>array_lower</>,
      <function>array_prepend</>, <function>array_to_string</>,
      <function>array_upper</>, <function>string_to_array</> (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow user defined aggregates to use polymorphic functions (Joe)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow assignments to empty arrays (Joe)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow 60 in seconds fields of <type>time</type>,
      <type>timestamp</type>, and <type>interval</type> input values
      (Tom)
     </para>
     <para>
      Sixty-second values are needed for leap seconds.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem><para>Allow <type>cidr</type> data type to be cast to <type>text</type> (Tom)</para></listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Trim trailing spaces when <type>char</type> is cast to
      <type>varchar</> or <type>text</> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make <type>float(<replaceable>p</>)</> measure the precision
      <replaceable>p</> in binary digits, not decimal digits
      (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add IPv6 support to the <type>inet</type> and <type>cidr</type> data types (Michael Graff)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Add <function>family()</function> function to report whether address is IPv4 or IPv6 (Michael Graff)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Have <literal>SHOW datestyle</literal> generate output similar
      to that used by <literal>SET datestyle</literal> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make <literal>EXTRACT(TIMEZONE)</literal> and <literal>SET/SHOW
      TIME ZONE</literal> follow the SQL convention for the sign of
      time zone offsets, i.e., positive is east from UTC (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
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     <para>
      Prior releases returned an incorrect value for this function call.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Make <function>initcap()</function> more compatible with Oracle (Mike Nolan)</para>
     <para>
      <function>initcap()</function> now uppercases a letter appearing
      after any non-alphanumeric character, rather than only after
      whitespace.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow only <varname>datestyle</varname> field order for date values not in ISO-8601 format (Greg)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add new <varname>datestyle</varname> values <literal>MDY</>,
      <literal>DMY</>, and <literal>YMD</> to set input field order;
      honor <literal>US</> and <literal>European</> for backward
      compatibility (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      String literals like <literal>'now'</literal> or
      <literal>'today'</literal> will no longer work as a column
      default. Use functions such as <function>now()</function>,
      <function>current_timestamp</function> instead.  (change
      required for prepared statements) (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Treat NaN as larger than any other value in <function>min()</>/<function>max()</> (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      NaN was already sorted after ordinary numeric values for most
      purposes, but <function>min()</> and <function>max()</> didn't
      get this right.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Prevent interval from suppressing <literal>:00</literal>
     seconds display</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
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      and <function>pg_conversion_is_visible()</function> (Christopher)
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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow time to be specified as <literal>040506</> or <literal>0405</> (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Input date order must now be <literal>YYYY-MM-DD</literal> (with 4-digit year) or
      match <varname>datestyle</varname>
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
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     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Server-Side Language Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      Prevent PL/pgSQL crash when <literal>RETURN NEXT</literal> is
      used on a zero-row record variable (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make PL/Python's <function>spi_execute</function> interface
      handle null values properly (Andrew Bosma)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow PL/pgSQL to declare variables of composite types without <literal>%ROWTYPE</literal> (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Fix PL/Python's <function>_quote()</function> function to handle big integers</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Make PL/Python an untrusted language, now called <literal>plpythonu</literal> (Kevin Jacobs, Tom)</para>
     <para>
      The Python language no longer supports a restricted execution
      environment, so the trusted version of PL/Python was removed. If
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     </para>
    </listitem>

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    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Allow polymorphic SQL functions (Joe)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Improved compiled function caching mechanism in PL/pgSQL with
      full support for polymorphism (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Add new parameter <literal>$0</> in PL/pgSQL representing the
      function's actual return type (Joe)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Allow PL/Tcl and PL/Python to use the same trigger on multiple tables (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fixed PL/Tcl's <function>spi_prepare</function> to accept fully
      qualified type names in the parameter type list
      (Jan)
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>
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   <title>psql Changes</title>
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   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>Add <literal>\pset pager always</literal> to always use pager (Greg)</para>
     <para>
      This forces the pager to be used even if the number of rows is
      less than the screen height.  This is valuable for rows that
      wrap across several screen rows.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Reorder <literal>\?</> help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add backslash commands for listing schemas, casts, and conversions (Christopher)</para></listitem>
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     <para>
      <command>\encoding</> now changes based on the server parameter
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     </para>
     <para>
      In previous versions, <command>\encoding</command> was not aware
      of encoding changes made using <literal>SET
      client_encoding</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>Save editor buffer into readline history (Ross)</para>
     <para>
      When <command>\e</> is used to edit a query, the result is saved
      in the readline history for retrieval using the up arrow.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Enhance HTML mode to be more standards-conforming (Greg)</para></listitem>
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     <para>New <command>\set AUTOCOMMIT off</command> capability (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      This takes the place of the removed server parameter <varname>autocommit</varname>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>New <command>\set VERBOSITY</command> to control error detail (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      This controls the new error reporting details.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Long options for <application>psql</application> are now available on all platforms</para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>
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   <title>pg_dump Changes</title>
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   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>Multiple pg_dump fixes, including tar format and large objects</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow pg_dump to dump specific schemas (Neil)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Make pg_dump preserve column storage characteristics (Christopher)</para>
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     <para>
      Allow pg_dumpall to support the options <option>-a</>,
      <option>-s</>, <option>-x</> of pg_dump (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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      and <option>--no-reconnect</option> now do nothing, all dumps
      use <command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command>
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     <para>
      pg_dump no longer reconnects to switch users, but instead always
      uses <command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command>. This will
      reduce password prompting during restores.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>
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   <title>libpq Changes</title>
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   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
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      Add function <function>PQfreemem</function> for freeing memory on
      Windows, suggested for <command>NOTIFY</command> (Bruce)
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     <para>
      Windows requires that memory allocated in a library be freed by
      a function in the same library, hence
      <function>free()</function> doesn't work for freeing memory
      allocated by libpq. <function>PQfreemem</function> is the proper
      way to free libpq memory, especially on Windows, and is
      recommended for other platforms as well.
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     <para>Document service capability, and add sample file (Bruce)</para>
     <para>
      This allows clients to look up connection information in a
      central file on the client machine.
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make <function>PQsetdbLogin</function> have the same defaults as
      <function>PQconnectdb</function> (Tom)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow thread-safe libpq with <filename>configure</filename>
      option <option>--enable-thread-safety</option> (Lee Kindness,
      Philip Yarra)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Allow function <function>pqInternalNotice</function> to accept a
      format string and arguments instead of just a preformatted
      message (Tom, Sean Chittenden)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Control SSL negotiation with <literal>sslmode</literal> values
      <literal>disable</literal>, <literal>allow</literal>,
      <literal>prefer</literal>, and <literal>require</literal> (Jon
      Jensen)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>Allow new error codes and levels of text (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>Allow access to the underlying table and column of a query result (Tom)</para>
     <para>
      This is helpful for query-builder applications that want to know
      the underlying table and column names associated with a specific
      result set.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Add ability to pass binary data directly to the server (Tom)</para></listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add function <function>PQexecPrepared</function> and
      <function>PQsendQueryPrepared</function> functions which perform
      bind/execute of previously prepared statements (Tom)
      </para>
     </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>JDBC Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>Allow <function>setNull</function> on updateable result sets</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow <function>executeBatch</function> on a prepared statement (Barry)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Support SSL connections (Barry)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Handle schema names in result sets (Paul Sorenson)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add refcursor support (Nic Ferrier)</para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Miscellaneous Interface Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>Prevent possible memory leak or core dump during libpgtcl shutdown (Tom)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>Add Informix compatibility to ECPG (Michael)</para>
     <para>
      This allows ECPG to process embedded C programs that were
      written using certain Informix extensions.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>Add type <type>decimal</type> to ECPG that is fixed length, for Informix (Michael)</para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Allow thread-safe embedded SQL programs with
      <filename>configure</filename> option
      <option>--enable-thread-safety</option> (Lee Kindness, Bruce)
     </para>
     <para>
      This allows multiple threads to access the database at the same
      time.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>Moved Python client PyGreSQL to <ulink url="http://www.pygresql.org"></ulink> (Marc)</para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Source Code Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result files (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New function <function>palloc0</function> to allocate and clear memory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Fix locking code for s390x CPU (64-bit) (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow OpenBSD to use local ident credentials (William Ahern)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Make query plan trees read-only to executor (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add Darwin startup scripts (David Wheeler)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow libpq to compile with Borland C++ compiler (Lester Godwin, Karl Waclawek)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Use our own version of <function>getopt_long()</function> if needed (Peter)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Convert administration scripts to C (Peter)</para></listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Add Windows compatibility functions (Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Allow client interfaces to compile under MinGW (Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New <function>ereport()</function> function for error reporting (Tom)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Support Intel compiler on Linux (Peter)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improve Linux startup scripts (Slawomir Sudnik, Darko Prenosil)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add support for AMD Opteron and Itanium (Jeffrey W. Baker, Bruce)</para></listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>Remove <option>--enable-recode</option> option from <command>configure</command></para>
     <para>
      This was no longer needed now that we have <command>CREATE CONVERSION</command>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>Generate a compile error if spinlock code is not found (Bruce)</para>
     <para>
      Platforms without spinlock code will now fail to compile, rather
      than silently using semaphores. This failure can be disabled
      with a new <command>configure</command> option.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
   <title>Contrib Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>Change dbmirror license to BSD</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improve earthdistance (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Portability improvements to pgcrypto (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Prevent crash in xml (John Gray, Michael Richards)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Update oracle</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Update mysql</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Update cube (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Update earthdistance to use cube (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Update btree_gist (Oleg)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New tsearch2 full-text search module (Oleg, Teodor)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add hash-based crosstab function to tablefuncs (Joe)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add serial column to order <function>connectby()</> siblings in tablefuncs (Nabil Sayegh,Joe)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Add named persistent connections to dblink (Shridhar Daithanka)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>New pg_autovacuum allows automatic <command>VACUUM</command> (Matthew T. O'Connor)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Make pgbench honor environment variables <envar>PGHOST</>, <envar>PGPORT</>, <envar>PGUSER</> (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improve intarray (Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improve pgstattuple (Rod)</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Fix bug in <function>metaphone()</function> in fuzzystrmatch</para></listitem>
    <listitem><para>Improve adddepend (Rod)</para></listitem>
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    <listitem><para>Fix dbase <option>-s</> option and improve non-ASCII handling (Thomas Behr, Márcio Smiderle)</para></listitem>
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   </itemizedlist>
  </sect3>
  </sect2>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-3-13">
   <title>Release 7.3.13</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2006-01-09</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.12.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.13</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.10, see the release
     notes for 7.3.10.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix character set sorting for locales that consider
different character combinations to have the same sorting, e.g.
Hungarian. (Tom) </para><para>This might require <command>REINDEX</> in
those locales to fix  existing indexes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix long standing Asian multibyte charsets bug (Tatsuo)
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <filename>/contrib/dblink</> to throw an error
when the number of columns specified is different from those returned
by the query (Joe)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Set <literal>LC_XXX</> variables to prevent problems
with <application>plperl</> processing (Tom)</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-3-12">
   <title>Release 7.3.12</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-12-12</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.11.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.12</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.10, see the release
     notes for 7.3.10.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Fix race condition in transaction log management</para>
<para>There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be initiated
for the wrong page, leading to an Assert failure or data
corruption.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para><filename>/contrib/ltree</> fixes (Teodor)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix longstanding planning error for outer joins</para>
<para>This bug sometimes caused a bogus error <quote>RIGHT JOIN is
only supported with merge-joinable join conditions</>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Prevent core dump in <application>pg_autovacuum</> when a
table has been dropped</para></listitem>
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   <title>Release 7.3.11</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.10.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.11</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.  However,
     if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.10, see the release
     notes for 7.3.10.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix error that allowed <command>VACUUM</> to remove
<literal>ctid</> chains too soon, and add more checking in code that follows
<literal>ctid</> links</para>
<para>This fixes a long-standing problem that could cause crashes in very rare
circumstances.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <type>CHAR()</> to properly pad spaces to the specified
length when using a multiple-byte character set (Yoshiyuki Asaba)</para>
<para>In prior releases, the padding of <type>CHAR()</> was incorrect
because it only padded to the specified number of bytes without
considering how many characters were stored.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix missing rows in queries like <literal>UPDATE a=... WHERE
a...</> with GiST index on column <literal>a</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve checking for partially-written WAL
pages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve robustness of signal handling when SSL is
enabled</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various memory leakage fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various portability improvements</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/PgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
the variable is of pass-by-reference type</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

   </sect2>
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   <title>Release 7.3.10</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.9, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.10</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.  However,
     it is one possible way of handling a significant security problem
     that has been found in the initial contents of 7.3.X system
     catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 7.3.10's initdb will
     automatically correct this problem.
    </para>

    <para>
     The security problem is that the built-in character set encoding
     conversion functions can be invoked from SQL commands by unprivileged
     users, but the functions were not designed for such use and are not
     secure against malicious choices of arguments.  The fix involves changing
     the declared parameter list of these functions so that they can no longer
     be invoked from SQL commands.  (This does not affect their normal use
     by the encoding conversion machinery.)
     It is strongly recommended that all installations repair this error,
     either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedure given
     below.  The error at least allows unprivileged database users to crash
     their server process, and may allow unprivileged users to gain the
     privileges of a database superuser.
    </para>

    <para>
     If you wish not to do an initdb, perform the following procedure instead.
     As the database superuser, do:

<programlisting>
BEGIN;
UPDATE pg_proc SET proargtypes[3] = 'internal'::regtype
WHERE pronamespace = 11 AND pronargs = 5
      AND proargtypes[2] = 'cstring'::regtype;
-- The command should report having updated 90 rows;
-- if not, rollback and investigate instead of committing!
COMMIT;
</programlisting>
    </para>

    <para>
     The above procedure must be carried out in <emphasis>each</> database
     of an installation, including <literal>template1</>, and ideally
     including <literal>template0</> as well.  If you do not fix the
     template databases then any subsequently created databases will contain
     the same error.  <literal>template1</> can be fixed in the same way
     as any other database, but fixing <literal>template0</> requires
     additional steps.  First, from any database issue
<programlisting>
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = true WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
      Next connect to <literal>template0</> and perform the above repair
      procedure.  Finally, do
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-- re-freeze template0:
VACUUM FREEZE;
-- and protect it against future alterations:
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';
</programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Change encoding function signature to prevent
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seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</para>
<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</para>
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freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
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<para>
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<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
NOTE: if you have an index on a <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> column,
it will need to be <command>REINDEX</>ed after installing this update, because
the fix corrects the sort order of column values.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</> for
<type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix mis-display of negative fractional seconds in
<type>INTERVAL</> values</para>
<para>
This error only occurred when the
<literal>--enable-integer-datetimes</> configuration switch had been used.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql
(Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to dump trigger names containing <literal>%</>
correctly (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent <function>to_char(interval)</> from dumping core for
month-related formats</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> for newer OpenSSL builds
(Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Still more 64-bit fixes for
<filename>contrib/intagg</></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent incorrect optimization of functions returning
<type>RECORD</></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

  </sect2>
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   <title>Release 7.3.9</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-01-31</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.8, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.9</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Disallow <command>LOAD</> to non-superusers</para>
<para>
On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
<command>LOAD</> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code.
Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check that creator of an aggregate function has the right to
execute the specified transition functions</para>
<para>
This oversight made it possible to bypass denial of EXECUTE
permission on a function.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix security and 64-bit issues in
contrib/intagg</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
Jurka)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
many parameters (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</para>
<para>
The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix plperl for quote marks in tuple fields</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN
datestyles</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

  </sect2>
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   <title>Release 7.3.8</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-10-22</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.7.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.8</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk</para>
<para>
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to 
<quote>could not access transaction status</> failures, which qualifies
it as a potential-data-loss bug.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples</para>
<para>
Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output unmatched
left-side rows given just the right data distribution.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow running pg_ctl as root</para>
<para>
This is to guard against any possible security issues.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check</para>
<para>
This has been reported as a security issue, though it's hardly worthy of
concern since there is no reason for non-developers to use this script anyway.
</para></listitem>
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   <title>Release 7.3.7</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains one critical fix over 7.3.6, and some minor items.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.7</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart.  This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove asymmetrical word processing in tsearch (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Properly schema-qualify function names when pg_dump'ing a CAST</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

  </sect2>
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   <title>Release 7.3.6</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-03-02</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.5.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.6</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
     running 7.3.*.
    </para>

   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Revert erroneous changes in rule permissions checking</para>
<para>A patch applied in 7.3.3 to fix a corner case in rule permissions checks
turns out to have disabled rule-related permissions checks in many
not-so-corner cases.  This would for example allow users to insert into views
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<listitem><para>Repair incorrect order of operations in
GetNewTransactionId()</para>
<para>
This bug could result in failure under out-of-disk-space conditions, including
inability to restart even after disk space is freed.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure configure selects -fno-strict-aliasing even when
an external value for CFLAGS is supplied</para>
<para>
On some platforms, building with -fstrict-aliasing causes bugs.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_restore handle 64-bit off_t correctly</para>
<para>
This bug prevented proper restoration from archive files exceeding 4Gb.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make contrib/dblink not assume that local and remote type OIDs
match (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Quote connectby()'s start_with argument properly (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't crash when a rowtype argument to a plpgsql function is
NULL</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid generating invalid character encoding sequences in
corner cases when planning LIKE operations</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure text_position() cannot scan past end of source string
in multibyte cases (Korea PostgreSQL Users' Group)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix index optimization and selectivity estimates for LIKE
operations on bytea columns (Joe)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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   <title>Release 7.3.5</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2003-12-03</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.4.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.5</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
     running 7.3.*.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for possible foreign key violation when rule rewrites INSERT (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support qualified type names in PL/Tcl's spi_prepare command (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_dump handle a procedural language handler located in pg_catalog</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_dump handle cases where a custom opclass is in another schema</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_dump dump binary-compatible casts correctly (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix insertion of expressions containing subqueries into rule bodies</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix incorrect argument processing in clusterdb script (Anand Ranganathan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with dropped columns in plpython triggers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair problems with to_char() reading past end of its input string (Karel)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix GB18030 mapping errors (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix several problems with SSL error handling and asynchronous SSL I/O</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove ability to bind a list of values to a single parameter in JDBC
(prevents possible SQL-injection attacks)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix some errors in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code paths</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</para></listitem>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-3-4">
   <title>Release 7.3.4</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2003-07-24</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.3.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.3.4</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
     running 7.3.*.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Repair breakage in timestamp-to-date conversion for dates before 2000</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent rare possibility of server startup failure (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bugs in interval-to-time conversion (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add constraint names in a few places in pg_dump (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve performance of functions with many parameters (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix to_ascii() buffer overruns (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent restore of database comments from throwing an error (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Work around buggy strxfrm() present in some Solaris releases (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Properly escape jdbc setObject() strings to improve security (Barry)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
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   </para>
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<listitem><para>Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure createuser script will exit on control-C (Oliver)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix errors when the type of a dropped column has itself been dropped</para></listitem>
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<type> TIME</type>, or <type>INTERVAL</type> precision too large</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>abstime-to-time</function> cast function (fix is
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<listitem><para>Fix <application>pg_proc</application> entry for
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<listitem><para>Accept <command>GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY</command> as a
       synonym for <command>TEMPORARY</command></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix incorrect time-qual check in row fetch for
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<listitem><para>Foreign-key clauses were parsed but ignored in
       <command>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</command></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior of <function>replace()</function> on strings containing '%'</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Repair incorrect check for ungrouped variables in unnamed joins</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avoid running out of buffers in many-way indexscan (bug introduced in 7.3)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planner's selectivity estimation functions to handle domains properly</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix replace_vars_with_subplan_refs failure in complex views</para></listitem>
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       and <command> DROP CAST</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept <function>SETOF type[]</function>, which formerly had to
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       from <function>lo_read</function> (Oleg Drokin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>pg_dumpall</application> failed with groups having no members (Nick Eskelinen)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>plpython used wrong value of <envar>atttypmod</envar> (Brad McLean)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fixed various problems with DatabaseMetaData for JDBC (Kris Jurka, Peter Royal)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed problem with parsing table ACLs in JDBC</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Better error message for character set conversion problems in JDBC</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
    running version 7.3.*.
   </para>
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<listitem><para>Restore creation of OID column in CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix UPDATE when child table's column numbering differs from parent</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increase default value of max_fsm_relations</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem when fetching backwards in a cursor for a single-row query</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make backward fetch work properly with cursor on SELECT DISTINCT query</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix possible memory leak and core dump during disconnect in libpgtcl</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make plpython's spi_execute command handle nulls properly (Andrew Bosma)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Adjust plpython error reporting so that its regression test passes again</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Work with bison 1.875</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle mixed-case names properly in plpgsql's %type (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix core dump in pltcl when executing a query rewritten by a rule</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair array subscript overruns (per report from Yichen Xie)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce MAX_TIME_PRECISION from 13 to 10 in floating-point case</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Correctly case-fold variable names in per-database and per-user settings</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix coredump in plpgsql's RETURN NEXT when SELECT into record returns no rows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix outdated use of pg_type.typprtlen in python client interface</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Correctly handle fractional seconds in timestamps in JDBC driver</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve performance of getImportedKeys() in JDBC</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make shared-library symlinks work standardly on HPUX (Giles)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair inconsistent rounding behavior for timestamp, time, interval</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SSL negotiation fixes (Nathan Mueller)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make libpq's ~/.pgpass feature work when connecting with PQconnectDB</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update my2pg, ora2pg</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Translation updates</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add casts between types lo and oid in contrib/lo</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>fastpath code now checks for privilege to call function</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Fix problem with deletion of per-user/per-database config settings (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/vacuumlo fix (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow 'password' encryption even when pg_shadow contains MD5 passwords (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/dbmirror fix (Steven Singer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Optimizer fixes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/tsearch fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Magnus)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow locale names to be mixed case (Nicolai Tufar)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increment libpq library's major version number (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_hba.conf error reporting fixes (Bruce, Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add SCO Openserver 5.0.4 as a supported platform (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent EXPLAIN from crashing server (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SSL fixes (Nathan Mueller)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent composite column creation via ALTER TABLE (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
  </sect2>
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  <title>Release 7.3</title>

  <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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  <sect2>
   <title>Overview</title>

   <para>
    Major changes in this release:
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   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term>Schemas</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Schemas allow users to create objects in separate namespaces,
       so two people or applications can have tables with the same
       name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
       Table/index creation can be restricted by removing privileges
       on the public schema.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Drop Column</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> now supports the
       <literal>ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN</literal> functionality.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Table Functions</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Functions returning multiple rows and/or multiple columns are
       now much easier to use than before.  You can call such a
       <quote>table function</quote> in the <literal>SELECT</literal>
       <literal>FROM</literal> clause, treating its output like a
       table. Also, <application>PL/pgSQL</application> functions can
       now return sets.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Prepared Queries</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> now supports prepared
       queries, for improved performance.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Dependency Tracking</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> now records object
       dependencies, which allows improvements in many areas.
       <command>DROP</command> statements now take either
       <literal>CASCADE</> or <literal>RESTRICT</> to control whether
       dependent objects are also dropped.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Privileges</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Functions and procedural languages now have privileges, and
       functions can be defined to run with the privileges of their
       creator.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Internationalization</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Both multibyte and locale support are now always enabled.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>Logging</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A variety of logging options have been enhanced.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Interfaces</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A large number of interfaces have been moved to <ulink
       url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org</>
       where they can be developed and released independently.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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     <term>Functions/Identifiers</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       By default, functions can now take up to 32 parameters, and
       identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long.  Also, <literal>OPAQUE</>
       is now deprecated: there are specific <quote>pseudo-datatypes</>
       to represent each of the former meanings of <literal>OPAQUE</>
       in function argument and result types.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Migration to version 7.3</title>

   <para>
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    A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</> is required for those
    wishing to migrate data from any previous release. If your
    application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will
    be required due to the introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more
    information, see: <ulink
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   <para>
    Observe the following incompatibilities:
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Pre-6.3 clients are no longer supported.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> now has a column for the user
      name and additional features.  Existing files need to be
      adjusted.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      Several <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> logging parameters
      have been renamed.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <literal>LIMIT #,#</literal> has been disabled; use
      <literal>LIMIT # OFFSET #</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <command>INSERT</command> statements with column lists must
      specify a value for each specified column. For example,
      <literal>INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1')</literal>
      is now invalid.  It's still allowed to supply fewer columns than
      expected if the <command>INSERT</command> does not have a column list.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <type>serial</type> columns are no longer automatically
      <literal>UNIQUE</>; thus, an index will not automatically be
      created.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      A <command>SET</command> command inside an aborted transaction
      is now rolled back.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      <command>COPY</command> no longer considers missing trailing
      columns to be null.  All columns need to be specified.
      (However, one may achieve a similar effect by specifying a
      column list in the <command>COPY</command> command.)
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      The data type <type>timestamp</type> is now equivalent to
      <type>timestamp without time zone</type>, instead of
      <type>timestamp with time zone</type>.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Pre-7.3 databases loaded into 7.3 will not have the new object
      dependencies for <type>serial</type> columns, unique
      constraints, and foreign keys. See the directory
      <filename>contrib/adddepend/</filename> for a detailed
      description and a script that will add such dependencies.
     </para>
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     <para>
      An empty string (<literal>''</literal>) is no longer allowed as
      the input into an integer field.  Formerly, it was silently
      interpreted as 0.
     </para>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <sect3>
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<listitem><para>Add pg_locks view to show locks (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Security fixes for password negotiation memory allocation (Neil)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Remove support for version 0 FE/BE protocol (<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 6.2 and earlier) (Tom)</para></listitem>
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    <title>Performance</title>
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<listitem><para>Improve startup by calling localtime() only once (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cache system catalog information in flat files for faster startup (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve caching of index information (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Optimizer improvements (Tom, Fernando Nasser)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Catalog caches now store failed lookups (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hash function improvements (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve performance of query tokenization and network handling (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Speed improvement for large object restore (Mario Weilguni)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mark expired index entries on first lookup, saving later heap fetches (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid excessive NULL bitmap padding (Manfred Koizar)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris, for performance (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce per-row overhead by four bytes (Manfred Koizar)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix GEQO optimizer bug (Neil Conway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make WITHOUT OID actually save four bytes per row (Manfred Koizar)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use local buffer cache for temporary tables so no WAL overhead (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved WAL write concurrency (Tom)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Privileges</title>
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<listitem><para>Add privileges on functions and procedural languages (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add OWNER to CREATE DATABASE so superusers can create databases on behalf of unprivileged users (Gavin Sherry, Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Allow functions to be executed with the privilege of the function owner (Peter)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Server Configuration</title>
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<listitem><para>Server log messages now tagged with LOG, not DEBUG (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add user column to pg_hba.conf (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have log_connections output two lines in log file (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove debug_level from postgresql.conf, now server_min_messages (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New ALTER DATABASE/USER ... SET command for per-user/database initialization (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New parameters server_min_messages and client_min_messages to control which messages are sent to the server logs or client applications (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_hba.conf to specify lists of users/databases separated by commas, group names prepended with +, and file names prepended with @ (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove secondary password file capability and pg_password utility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add variable db_user_namespace for database-local user names (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SSL improvements (Bear Giles)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make encryption of stored passwords the default (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_statistics to be reset by calling pg_stat_reset() (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add log_duration parameter (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename debug_print_query to log_statement (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename show_query_stats to show_statement_stats (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add param log_min_error_statement to print commands to logs on error (Gavin)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Queries</title>
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<listitem><para>Make cursors insensitive, meaning their contents do not change (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disable LIMIT #,# syntax; now only LIMIT # OFFSET # supported (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increase identifier length to 63 (Neil, Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fail on INSERTs with column lists that don't supply all column values, e.g., INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1');  (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for join aliases (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for FULL OUTER JOINs (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve reporting of invalid identifier and location (Tom, Gavin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow 'ctid' to be used in a view and currtid(viewname) (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for CREATE TABLE AS with UNION (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SQL99 syntax improvements (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add statement_timeout variable to cancel queries (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow prepared queries with PREPARE/EXECUTE (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow FOR UPDATE to appear after LIMIT/OFFSET (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add variable autocommit (Tom, David Van Wie)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Object Manipulation</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Make equals signs optional in CREATE DATABASE (Gavin Sherry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make ALTER TABLE OWNER change index ownership too (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET STORAGE controls TOAST storage, compression (John Gray)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add schema support, CREATE/DROP SCHEMA (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Create schema for temporary tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add variable search_path for schema search (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE SET/DROP NOT NULL (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New CREATE FUNCTION volatility levels (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make rule names unique only per table (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add 'ON tablename' clause to DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TRIGGER RENAME (Joe)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Allow functions to return multiple rows (table functions) (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make WITH optional in CREATE DATABASE, for consistency (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add object dependency tracking (Rod, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add RESTRICT/CASCADE to DROP commands (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE DROP for non-CHECK CONSTRAINT (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Autodestroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add CREATE/DROP OPERATOR CLASS (Bill Studenmund, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN (Christopher, Tom, Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent inherited columns from being removed or renamed (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate database states (Stephan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (Gavin, Neil, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add CREATE OR REPLACE RULE (Gavin, Neil, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more predictable values (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Triggers are now fired in alphabetical order (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/adddepend to handle pre-7.3 object dependencies (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow better casting when inserting/updating values (Tom)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Utility Commands</title>
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<listitem><para>Have COPY TO output embedded carriage returns and newlines as \r and \n (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow DELIMITER in COPY FROM to be 8-bit clean (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Disable brackets in multistatement rules (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disable VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow dropdb and other scripts to use identifiers with spaces (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Restrict database comment changes to the current database</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow comments on operators, independent of the underlying function (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rollback SET commands in aborted transactions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>EXPLAIN now outputs as a query (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Display condition expressions and sort keys in EXPLAIN (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set configuration variables for a single transaction (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow ANALYZE to run in a transaction (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve COPY syntax using new WITH clauses, keep backward compatibility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow COPY TO/FROM to specify column names (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Have SHOW output a query result (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix CLUSTER to preserve all table attributes (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on previous CLUSTER operations (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Overhaul pg_dumpall (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow REINDEX of TOAST tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Implemented START TRANSACTION, per SQL99 (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix rare index corruption when a page split affects bulk delete (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for inheritance (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Data Types and Functions</title>
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<listitem><para>Fix factorial(0) to return 1 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Date/time/timezone improvements (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for array slice extraction (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix extract/date_part to report proper microseconds for timestamp (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow text_substr() and bytea_substr() to read TOAST values more efficiently (John Gray)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add domain support (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make WITHOUT TIME ZONE the default for TIMESTAMP and TIME data types (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow alternate storage scheme of 64-bit integers for date/time types using --enable-integer-datetimes in configure (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make timezone(timestamptz) return timestamp rather than a string (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow fractional seconds in date/time types for dates prior to 1BC (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Limit timestamp data types to 6 decimal places of precision (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change timezone conversion functions from timetz() to timezone() (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add configuration variables datestyle and timezone (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add OVERLAY(), which allows substitution of a substring in a string (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add SIMILAR TO (Thomas, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape) (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP functions (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add named composite types using CREATE TYPE typename AS (column) (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow composite type definition in the table alias clause (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new API to simplify creation of C language table functions (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99 functions for which these parentheses do not match the standard (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow macaddr data type to accept 12 hex digits with no separators (Mike Wyer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add CREATE/DROP CAST (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add IS DISTINCT FROM operator (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add SQL99 TREAT() function, synonym for CAST() (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_backend_pid() to output backend pid (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add IS OF / IS NOT OF type predicate (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow bit string constants without fully-specified length (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow conversion between 8-byte integers and bit strings (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Implement hex literal conversion to bit string literal (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow table functions to appear in the FROM clause (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increase maximum number of function parameters to 32 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>No longer automatically create index for SERIAL column (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add current_database() (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix cash_words() to not overflow buffer (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add functions replace(), split_part(), to_hex() (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix LIKE for bytea as a right-hand argument (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent crashes caused by SELECT cash_out(2) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix to_char(1,'FM999.99') to return a period (Karel)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix trigger/type/language functions returning OPAQUE to return proper type (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add additional encodings: Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese (TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256), Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC) (Eiji Tokuya)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable locale support by default (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add locale variables (Peter)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add GB18030 multibyte support (Bill Huang)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add CREATE/DROP CONVERSION, allowing loadable encodings (Tatsuo, Kaori)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_conversion table (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add SQL99 CONVERT() function (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dumpall, pg_controldata, and pg_resetxlog now national-language aware (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New and updated translations</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Allow recursive SQL function (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change PL/Tcl build to use configured compiler and Makefile.shlib (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible (Neil, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove some memory leaks (Nigel J. Andrews, Tom)</para></listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Don't lowercase psql \connect database name for 7.2.0 compatibility (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add psql \timing to time user queries (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have psql \d show index information (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New psql \dD shows domains (Jonathan Eisler)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow psql to show rules on views (Paul ?)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for psql variable substitution (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow psql \d to show foreign keys (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix \? to honor \pset pager (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have psql reports its version number on startup (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow \copy to specify column names (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix for sending large queries over non-blocking connections (Bernhard Herzog)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for libpq using timers on Win9X (David Ford)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow libpq notify to handle servers with different-length identifiers (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix for SSL with non-blocking connections (Jack Bates)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add libpq connection timeout parameter (Denis A Ustimenko)</para></listitem>
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    <title>JDBC</title>
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<listitem><para>Allow JDBC to compile with JDK 1.4 (Dave)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add JDBC 3 support (Barry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allows JDBC to set loglevel by adding ?loglevel=X to the connection URL (Barry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Driver.info() message that prints out the version number (Barry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add updateable result sets (Raghu Nidagal, Dave)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add support for callable statements (Paul Bethe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add query cancel capability</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add refresh row (Dave)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix MD5 encryption handling for multibyte servers (Jun Kawai)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add support for prepared statements (Barry)</para></listitem>
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    <title>Miscellaneous Interfaces</title>
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<listitem><para>Fixed ECPG bug concerning octal numbers in single quotes (Michael)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve Python interface (Elliot Lee, Andrew Johnson, Greg Copeland)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add libpgtcl connection close event (Gerhard Hintermayer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move src/interfaces/libpq++ to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move src/interfaces/odbc to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move src/interfaces/perl5 to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove src/bin/pgaccess from main tree, now at http://www.pgaccess.org (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_on_connection_loss command to libpgtcl (Gerhard Hintermayer, Tom)</para></listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix for parallel make (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>AIX fixes for linking Tcl (Andreas Zeugswetter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow PL/Perl to build under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve MIPS compiles (Peter, Oliver Elphick)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Require Autoconf version 2.53 (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Require readline and zlib by default in configure (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow Solaris to use Intimate Shared Memory (ISM), for performance (Scott Brunza, P.J. Josh Rovero)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Always enable syslog in compile, remove --enable-syslog option (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Always enable multibyte in compile, remove --enable-multibyte option (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Always enable locale in compile, remove --enable-locale option (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for Win9x DLL creation (Magnus Naeslund)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add sys/types.h to c.h, remove from main files (Peter, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix AIX hang on SMP machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>AIX SMP hang fix (Tomoyuki Niijima)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Peter, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bison &gt;= 1.50 now required for developer builds</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Kerberos 5 support now builds with Heimdal (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add appendix in the User's Guide which lists SQL features (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve loadable module linking to use RTLD_NOW (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New error levels WARNING, INFO, LOG, DEBUG[1-5] (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New src/port directory holds replaced libc functions (Peter, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_namespace system catalog for schemas (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_class.relnamespace for schemas (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_type.typnamespace for schemas (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_proc.pronamespace for schemas (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Restructure aggregates to have pg_proc entries (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>System relations now have their own namespace, pg_* test not required (Fernando Nasser)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename TOAST index names to be *_index rather than *_idx (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add namespaces for operators, opclasses (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add additional checks to server control file (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New Polish FAQ (Marcin Mazurek)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Posix semaphore support (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Document need for reindex (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add documentation on computing disk space (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove KSQO from GUC (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix memory leak in rtree (Kenneth Been)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Modify a few error messages for consistency (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove unused system table columns (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make system columns NOT NULL where appropriate (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Clean up use of sprintf in favor of snprintf() (Neil, Jukka Holappa)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove OPAQUE and create specific subtypes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cleanups in array internal handling (Joe, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow pg_atoi('') (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove parameter wal_files because WAL files are now recycled (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add version numbers to heap pages (Tom)</para></listitem>
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    <title>Contrib</title>
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<listitem><para>Allow inet arrays in /contrib/array (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GiST fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Upgrade /contrib/mysql</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/dbsize which shows table sizes without vacuum (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/intagg, integer aggregator routines (mlw)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve /contrib/oid2name (Neil, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve /contrib/tsearch (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cleanups of /contrib/rserver (Alexey V. Borzov)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update /contrib/oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update /contrib/dblink (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve options supported by /contrib/vacuumlo (Mario Weilguni)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improvements to /contrib/intarray (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev, Andrey Oktyabrski)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/reindexdb utility (Shaun Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add indexing to /contrib/isbn_issn (Dan Weston)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/dbmirror (Steven Singer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve /contrib/pgbench (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/tablefunc table function examples (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add /contrib/ltree data type for tree structures (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move /contrib/pg_controldata, pg_resetxlog into main tree (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixes to /contrib/cube (Bruno Wolff)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve /contrib/fulltextindex (Christopher)</para></listitem>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-2-8">
   <title>Release 7.2.8</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.7, including one
    security-related issue.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.2.8</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

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<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</para>
<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</para>
<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
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<listitem><para>Fix <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</> for
<type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql
(Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to dump index names and trigger names containing
<literal>%</> correctly (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent <function>to_char(interval)</> from dumping core for
month-related formats</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> for newer OpenSSL builds
(Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-2-7">
   <title>Release 7.2.7</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2005-01-31</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.6, including several
    security-related issues.
   </para>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.2.7</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Disallow <command>LOAD</> to non-superusers</para>
<para>
On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
<command>LOAD</> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code.
Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
Jurka)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
many parameters (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</para>
<para>
The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN
datestyles</para></listitem>
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   <title>Release 7.2.6</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-10-22</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.5.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.2.6</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk</para>
<para>
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to 
<quote>could not access transaction status</> failures, which qualifies
it as a potential-data-loss bug.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples</para>
<para>
Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output unmatched
left-side rows given just the right data distribution.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow running pg_ctl as root</para>
<para>
This is to guard against any possible security issues.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check</para>
<para>
This has been reported as a security issue, though it's hardly worthy of
concern since there is no reason for non-developers to use this script anyway.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update to newer versions of Bison</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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  <sect1 id="release-7-2-5">
   <title>Release 7.2.5</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.4.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.2.5</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart.  This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix buffer overrun in <function>to_ascii</function> (Guido Notari)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix failure to respond to <command>pg_ctl stop -m fast</command> after Async_NotifyHandler runs</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avoid conflict with system definition of <function>isblank()</function> function or macro</para></listitem>
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  <title>Release 7.2.4</title>
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   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.3,
   including fixes to prevent possible data loss.
  </para>
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   <title>Migration to version 7.2.4</title>
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
    running version 7.2.*.
   </para>
  </sect2>
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   <title>Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found" error</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function  (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint complete</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough to be toasted</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being recognized</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()  (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
  </sect2>
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   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.2,
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
    running version 7.2.*.
   </para>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix possible hang during server shutdown</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)</para></listitem>
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  </sect2>
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   <simpara>2002-08-23</simpara>
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
    running version 7.2.*.
   </para>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.
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   <title>Migration to version 7.2.1</title>
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    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
    running version 7.2.
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<listitem><para>Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Optimizer improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cash I/O improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New Russian FAQ</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for an additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
  </sect2>
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   <title>Overview</title>
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   <para>
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    This release improves <productname>PostgreSQL</> for use in
    high-volume applications.
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   <para>
    Major changes in this release:
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   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term>VACUUM</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Vacuuming no longer locks tables, thus allowing normal user
       access during the vacuum.  A new <command>VACUUM FULL</>
       command does old-style vacuum by locking the table and
       shrinking the on-disk copy of the table.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>Transactions</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       There is no longer a problem with installations that exceed
       four billion transactions.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term>OIDs</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       OIDs are now optional.  Users can now create tables without
       OIDs for cases where OID usage is excessive.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term>Optimizer</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The system now computes histogram column statistics during
       <command>ANALYZE</>, allowing much better optimizer choices.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term>Security</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A new MD5 encryption option allows more secure storage and
       transfer of passwords.  A new Unix-domain socket
       authentication option is available on Linux and BSD systems.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term>Statistics</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Administrators can use the new table access statistics module
       to get fine-grained information about table and index usage.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term>Internationalization</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Program and library messages can now be displayed in several
       languages.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
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    A dump/restore using <command>pg_dump</command> is required for
    those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      The semantics of the <command>VACUUM</command> command have
      changed in this release.  You may wish to update your
      maintenance procedures accordingly.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      In this release, comparisons using <literal>= NULL</literal>
      will always return false (or NULL, more precisely).  Previous
      releases automatically transformed this syntax to <literal>IS
      NULL</literal>.  The old behavior can be re-enabled using a
      <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> parameter.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      The <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and <filename>pg_ident.conf</>
      configuration is now only reloaded after receiving a
      <systemitem>SIGHUP</> signal, not with each connection.
     </para>
    </listitem>
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     <para>
      The function <filename>octet_length()</> now returns the uncompressed data length.
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     <para>
      The date/time value <literal>'current'</literal> is no longer
      available.  You will need to rewrite your applications.
     </para>
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     <para>
      The <literal>timestamp()</literal>, <literal>time()</literal>,
      and <literal>interval()</literal> functions are no longer
      available.  Instead of <literal>timestamp()</literal>, use 
      <literal>timestamp 'string'</literal> or <literal>CAST</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

   </itemizedlist>
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   <para>
    The <literal>SELECT ... LIMIT #,#</literal> syntax will be removed
    in the next release. You should change your queries to use
    separate LIMIT and OFFSET clauses, e.g. <literal>LIMIT 10 OFFSET
    20</literal>.
   </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <sect3>
    <title>Server Operation</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Delete orphaned temporary files on postmaster startup (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added unique indexes to some system tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>System table operator reorganization (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Renamed pg_log to pg_clog (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to kill backends (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removed compile-time limit on number of backends (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Better cleanup for semaphore resource failure (Tatsuo, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow safe transaction ID wraparound (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removed OIDs from some system tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removed "triggered data change violation" error check (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SPI portal creation of prepared/saved plans (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow SPI column functions to work for system columns (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Long value compression improvement (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Statistics collector for table, index access (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Truncate extra-long sequence names to a reasonable value (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix TID sequential scans (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Superuser ID now fixed at 1 (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_ctl "reload" option (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Performance</title>
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<listitem><para>New histogram column statistics for optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cache improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Keep relcache entries for index access support functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow better selectivity with NaN and infinities in NUMERIC (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>R-tree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>B-tree splits more efficient (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Privileges</title>
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<listitem><para>Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user at a time (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New has_table_privilege() function (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow non-superuser to vacuum database (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bug in privilege modifications on newly created tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow access to pg_statistic for non-superuser, add user-accessible views (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Client Authentication</title>
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<listitem><para>Fork postmaster before doing authentication to prevent hangs (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ident authentication over Unix domain sockets on Linux, *BSD (Helge Bahmann, Oliver Elphick, Teodor Sigaev, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add a password authentication method that uses MD5 encryption (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow encryption of stored passwords using MD5 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>PAM authentication (Dominic J. Eidson)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Load pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf only on startup and SIGHUP (Bruce)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Server Configuration</title>
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<listitem><para>New parameter to set default transaction isolation level (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New parameter to enable conversion of "expr = NULL" into "expr IS NULL", off by default (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New parameter to set client authentication timeout (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New parameter to set maximum number of open files (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Queries</title>
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<listitem><para>Statements added by INSERT rules now execute after the INSERT (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent unadorned relation names in target list (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>NULLs now sort after all normal values in ORDER BY (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN Boolean tests (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New EXPLAIN ANALYZE command that shows run times and row counts (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with LIMIT and subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for LIMIT, DISTINCT ON pushed into subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix nested EXCEPT/INTERSECT (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Schema Manipulation</title>
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<listitem><para>Fix SERIAL in temporary tables (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow temporary sequences (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sequences now use int8 internally (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New SERIAL8 creates int8 columns with sequences, default still SERIAL4 (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make OIDs optional using WITHOUT OIDS (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add %TYPE syntax to CREATE TYPE (Ian Lance Taylor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT for CHECK constraints (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to alter existing function (preserving the function OID) (Gavin Sherry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE / ADD [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ] (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow column renaming in views</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>CREATE/ALTER USER/GROUP now allow options in any order (Vince)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add LOCK A, B, C functionality (Neil Padgett)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER USER (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New light-weight VACUUM does not lock table; old semantics are available as VACUUM FULL (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disable COPY TO/FROM on views (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one character (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>VACUUM warning about index tuples fewer than heap now only appears when appropriate (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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    <title>Data Types and Functions</title>
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<listitem><para>Add convert(), convert2() (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New function bit_length() (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make the "n" in CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) represents letters, not bytes (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>BIT VARYING now rejects bit strings that are too long (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>BIT now rejects bit strings that do not match declared size (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>INET, CIDR text conversion functions (Alex Pilosov)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bytea now supports concatenation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New bytea functions: position, substring, trim, btrim, and length</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New encode() function mode, "escaped", converts minimally escaped bytea to/from text</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add pg_client_encoding() function (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>New TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE data type (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ISO date/time specification with "T", yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Improved to_*() conversion functions (Karel Zak)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Optimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New functions in contrib/pgcrypto: crypt(), hmac(), encrypt(), gen_salt() (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Correct description of translate() function (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add INTERVAL argument for SET TIME ZONE (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH (etc.) syntax (Thomas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Optimize length functions when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix path_inter, path_distance, path_length, dist_ppath to handle closed paths (Curtis Barrett, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>octet_length(text) now returns non-compressed length (Tatsuo, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle "July" full name in date/time literals (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Some datatype() function calls now evaluated differently</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add support for Julian and ISO time specifications (Thomas)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Internationalization</title>
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<listitem><para>National language support in psql, <application>pg_dump</>, libpq, and server (Peter E)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A. Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte aware (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Correct LATIN5 to mean ISO-8859-9, not ISO-8859-5 (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reject invalid multibyte character sequences (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Now uses portals for SELECT loops, allowing huge result sets (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CURSOR and REFCURSOR support (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Can now return open cursors (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ELSEIF (Klaus Reger)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve PL/pgSQL error reporting, including location of error (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow IS or FOR key words in cursor declaration, for compatibility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for PERFORM returning multiple rows (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make PL/pgSQL use the server's type coercion code (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Memory leak fix (Jan, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make trailing semicolon optional (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>PL/Perl</title>
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<listitem><para>New untrusted PL/Perl (Alex Pilosov)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>PL/Perl is now built on some platforms even if libperl is not shared (Peter E)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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    </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>PL/Tcl</title>
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<listitem><para>Now reports errorInfo (Vsevolod Lobko)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add spi_lastoid function (bob@redivi.com)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>PL/Python</title>
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<listitem><para>...is new (Andrew Bosma)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
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    <title><application>psql</></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>\d displays indexes in unique, primary groupings (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow trailing semicolons in backslash commands (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Read password from /dev/tty if possible</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force new password prompt when changing user and database (Tatsuo, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Format the correct number of columns for Unicode (Patrice)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
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    <title><application>libpq</></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>New function PQescapeString() to escape quotes in command strings (Florian Weimer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New function PQescapeBytea() escapes binary strings for use as SQL string literals</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>JDBC</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Return OID of INSERT (Ken K)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle more data types (Ken K)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle single quotes and newlines in strings (Ken K)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle NULL variables (Ken K)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for time zone handling (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved Druid support</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow eight-bit characters with non-multibyte server (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support BIT, BINARY types (Ned Wolpert)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage (Michael Stephens, Dave Cramer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update DatabaseMetaData (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() performance improvement (Jeroen van Vianen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Some JDBC1 and JDBC2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Array fixes (Greg Zoller)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Serialize addition </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix batch processing (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ExecSQL method reorganization (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GetColumn() fixes (Jeroen van Vianen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix isWriteable() function (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved passage of JDBC2 conformance tests (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add bytea type capability (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add isNullable() (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>JDBC date/time test suite fixes (Liam Stewart)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for SELECT 'id' AS xxx FROM table (Dave Cramer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix DatabaseMetaData to show precision properly (Mark Lillywhite)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New getImported/getExported keys (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>MD5 password encryption support (Jeremy Wohl)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix to actually use type cache (Ned Wolpert)</para></listitem>
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   <sect3>
    <title>ODBC</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
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<listitem><para>EXECUTE ... INTO implemented (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Multiple row descriptor support (e.g. CARDINALITY) (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for GRANT parameters (Lee Kindness)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix INITIALLY DEFERRED bug</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various bug fixes (Michael, Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>All function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixes for arrays of structures (Michael)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Misc. Interfaces</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko, Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Build and Install</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Configure, dynamic loader, and shared library fixes (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixes in QNX 4 port (Bernd Tegge)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Fixes in Cygwin and Windows ports (Jason Tishler, Gerhard Haring, Dmitry Yurtaev, Darko Prenosil, Mikhail Terekhov)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for Windows socket communication failures (Magnus, Mikhail Terekhov)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Hurd compile fix (Oliver Elphick)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>BeOS fixes (Cyril Velter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove configure --enable-unicode-conversion, now enabled by multibyte (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>AIX fixes (Tatsuo, Andreas)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix parallel make (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Install SQL language manual pages into OS-specific directories (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename config.h to pg_config.h (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reorganize installation layout of header files (Peter E)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Source Code</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Remove SEP_CHAR (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New GUC hooks (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Merge GUC and command line handling (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove EXTEND INDEX (Martijn van Oosterhout, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pgjindent utility to indent java code (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove define of true/false when compiling under C++ (Leandro Fanzone, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pgindent fixes (Bruce, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Replace strcasecmp() with strcmp() where appropriate (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Dynahash portability improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add 'volatile' usage in spinlock structures</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve signal handling logic (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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   <sect3>
    <title>Contrib</title>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>New contrib/rtree_gist (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New contrib/tsearch full-text indexing (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add contrib/dblink for remote database access (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/ora2pg Oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/xml XML conversion utility (John Gray)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/fulltextindex fixes (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New contrib/fuzzystrmatch with levenshtein and metaphone, soundex merged (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add contrib/intarray boolean queries, binary search, fixes (Oleg Bartunov)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_upgrade utility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new pg_resetxlog options (Bruce, Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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  </sect2>
 </sect1>
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  <sect1 id="release-7-1-3">
   <title>Release 7.1.3</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2001-08-15</simpara>
   </note>

   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.1.3</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
     7.1.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Multiaction rule fix (Tom)
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PL/pgSQL memory allocation fix (Jan)
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VACUUM buffer fix (Tom)
Regression test fixes (Tom)
pg_dump fixes for GRANT/REVOKE/comments on views, user-defined types (Tom)
Fix subselects with DISTINCT ON or LIMIT (Tom)
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Disable COPY TO/FROM a view (Tom)
Cygwin build (Jason Tishler)
     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>


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  <sect1 id="release-7-1-2">
   <title>Release 7.1.2</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>2001-05-11</simpara>
   </note>

   <para>
    This has one fix from 7.1.1.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.1.2</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
     7.1.X.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Optimizer fixes
pg_dump cleanups 
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>


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  <sect1 id="release-7-1-1">
   <title>Release 7.1.1</title>

   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>2001-05-05</simpara>
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   </note>

   <para>
    This has a variety of fixes from 7.1.
   </para>


   <sect2>
    <title>Migration to version 7.1.1</title>

    <para>
     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
     7.1.
    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
Fix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom)
pg_dump fixes (Philip)
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readline 4.2 fixes (Peter E)
JOIN fixes (Tom)
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Multibytes fixes (Tom)
Unicode fixes (Tatsuo)
Optimizer improvements (Tom)
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Fix for pg_ctl and option strings with spaces (Peter E)
ODBC fixes (Hiroshi)
EXTRACT can now take string argument (Thomas)
Python fixes (Darcy)
     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>


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   <title>Release 7.1</title>

   <note>
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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>2001-04-13</simpara>
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   </note>

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   <para>
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        This release focuses on removing limitations that have existed in the
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        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> code for many years.
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   </para>

   <para>
    Major changes in this release:
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   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term>
       Write-ahead Log (WAL)
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
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To maintain database consistency in case of an operating system crash,
previous releases of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> have forced
all data modifications to disk before each transaction commit.  With
WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
performance.  If you have been using -F in previous releases to
disable disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its use.
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     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>
       TOAST
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
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typically 8k - 32k. This limit made storage of long text fields
difficult.  With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored with good
performance.
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     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>
       Outer Joins
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
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We now support outer joins.  The UNION/NOT IN
workaround for outer joins is no longer required.  We use the SQL92
outer join syntax.
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     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>
       Function Manager
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
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The previous C function manager did not
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function manager does.  You can continue using your old custom
functions, but you may want to rewrite them in the future to use the new
function manager call interface.
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      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>
       Complex Queries
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
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A large number of complex queries that were
unsupported in previous releases now work.  Many combinations of views,
aggregates, UNION, LIMIT, cursors, subqueries, and inherited tables
now work properly. Inherited tables are now accessed by default. 
Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
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     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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   <sect2>
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    <para>
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        A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
        data from any previous release.
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    </para>
   </sect2>

   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
Bug Fixes
---------
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More reliable ALTER TABLE RENAME (Tom)
Kerberos V fixes (David Wragg)
Fix for INSERT INTO...SELECT where targetlist has subqueries (Tom)
Prompt username/password on standard error (Bruce)
Large objects inv_read/inv_write fixes (Tom)
Fixes for to_char(), to_date(), to_ascii(), and to_timestamp() (Karel, 
    Daniel Baldoni)
Prevent query expressions from leaking memory (Tom)
Allow UPDATE of arrays elements (Tom)
Wake up lock waiters during cancel (Hiroshi)
Fix rare cursor crash when using hash join (Tom)
Fix for DROP TABLE/INDEX in rolled-back transaction (Hiroshi)
Fix psql crash from \l+ if MULTIBYTE enabled (Peter E)
Fix truncation of rule names during CREATE VIEW (Ross Reedstrom)
Fix PL/perl (Alex Kapranoff)
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Disallow LOCK on views (Mark Hollomon)
Disallow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on views (Mark Hollomon)
Disallow DROP RULE, CREATE INDEX, TRUNCATE on views (Mark Hollomon)
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Allow PL/pgSQL accept non-ASCII identifiers (Tatsuo)
Allow views to proper handle GROUP BY, aggregates, DISTINCT (Tom)
Fix rare failure with TRUNCATE command (Tom)
Allow UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT to be used with ALL, subqueries, views, 
    DISTINCT, ORDER BY, SELECT...INTO (Tom)
Fix parser failures during aborted transactions (Tom)
Allow temporary relations to properly clean up indexes (Bruce)
Fix VACUUM problem with moving rows in same page (Tom)
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Allow LIMIT in VIEW (Tom)
Require cursor FETCH to honor LIMIT (Tom)
Allow PRIMARY/FOREIGN Key definitions on inherited columns (Stephan)
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Fix INSERT...SELECT with rules (Tom)
Fix FOR UPDATE inside views and subselects (Tom)
Fix OVERLAPS operators conform to SQL92 spec regarding NULLs (Tom)
Fix lpad() and rpad() to handle length less than input string (Tom)
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Overhaul btree code (Tom)
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Overhaul GIST code (Oleg)
Fix CLUSTER to preserve constraints and column default (Tom)
Improved deadlock detection handling (Tom)
Allow multiple SERIAL columns in a table (Tom)
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Enhancements
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Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
Function manager overhaul (Tom)
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Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes (Tom)
Improve CLUSTER (Tom)
Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E, Marc)
Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message (Ross)
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JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
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Grand Unified Configuration scheme/GUC.  Many options can now be set in 
    data/postgresql.conf, postmaster/postgres flags, or SET commands (Peter E)
Improved handling of file descriptor cache (Tom)
New warning code about auto-created table alias entries (Bruce)
Overhaul initdb process (Tom, Peter E)
Overhaul of inherited tables; inherited tables now accessed by default;
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ODBC cleanups/improvements (Nick Gorham, Stephan Szabo, Zoltan Kovacs, 
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Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
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Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
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Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
Use NUMERIC accumulators for INTEGER aggregates (Tom)
Overhaul aggregate code (Tom)
New VARIANCE and STDDEV() aggregates
Improve dependency ordering of pg_dump (Philip)
New pg_restore command (Philip)
New pg_dump tar output option (Philip)
New pg_dump of large objects  (Philip)
New ESCAPE option to LIKE (Thomas)
New case-insensitive LIKE - ILIKE (Thomas)
Allow functional indexes to use binary-compatible type (Tom)
Allow SQL functions to be used in more contexts (Tom)
New pg_config utility (Peter E)
New PL/pgSQL EXECUTE command which allows dynamic SQL and utility statements
    (Jan)
New PL/pgSQL GET DIAGNOSTICS statement for SPI value access (Jan)
New quote_identifiers() and quote_literal() functions (Jan)
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Allow subselects in FROM, i.e. FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias (Tom)
Update PyGreSQL to version 3.1 (D'Arcy)
Store tables as files named by OID (Vadim)
New SQL function setval(seq,val,bool) for use in pg_dump (Philip)
Require DROP VIEW to remove views, no DROP TABLE (Mark)
Allow DROP VIEW view1, view2 (Mark)
Allow multiple objects in DROP INDEX, DROP RULE, and DROP TYPE (Tom)
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New /contrib/pgcrypto hashing functions (Marko Kreen)
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New pg_dumpall --globals-only option (Peter E)
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New CHECKPOINT command for WAL which creates new WAL log file (Vadim)
New AT TIME ZONE syntax (Thomas)
Allow location of Unix domain socket to be configurable (David J. MacKenzie)
Allow postmaster to listen on a specific IP address (David J. MacKenzie)
Allow socket path name to be specified in hostname by using leading slash
    (David J. MacKenzie)
Allow CREATE DATABASE to specify template database (Tom)
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New utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL (Thomas)
New /contrib/rserv replication toolkit (Vadim)
New file format for COPY BINARY (Tom)
New /contrib/oid2name to map numeric files to table names (B Palmer)
New "idle in transaction" ps status message (Marc)
Update to pgaccess 0.98.7 (Constantin Teodorescu)
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Add rudimentary dependency checking to pg_dump (Philip)
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Types
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Fix INET/CIDR type ordering and add new functions (Tom)
Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E)
New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
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Fix CIDR output formatting (Tom)
New CIDR abbrev() function (Tom)
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Performance
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Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to provide crash recovery with less performance 
    overhead (Vadim)
ANALYZE stage of VACUUM no longer exclusively locks table (Bruce)
Reduced file seeks (Denis Perchine)
Improve BTREE code for duplicate keys (Tom)
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Improve memory allocation performance (Karel, Tom)

Source Code
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New function manager call conventions (Tom)
SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
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New BSDI README (Bruce)
configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
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Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
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New configure --with-python option (Peter E)
Solaris cleanups (Peter E)
Overhaul /contrib Makefiles (Karel)
New OpenSSL configuration option (Magnus, Peter E)
AIX fixes (Andreas)
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QNX fixes (Maurizio)
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New heap_open(), heap_openr() API (Tom)
Remove colon and semi-colon operators (Thomas)
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Rename ichar() to chr() (Karel)
New documentation for btrim(), ascii(), chr(), repeat() (Karel)
Fixes for NT/Cygwin (Pete Forman)
AIX port fixes (Andreas)
New BeOS port (David Reid, Cyril Velter)
Add proofreader's changes to docs (Addison-Wesley, Bruce)
New Alpha spinlock code (Adriaan Joubert, Compaq)
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UnixWare port overhaul (Peter E)
New Darwin/MacOS X port (Peter Bierman, Bruce Hartzler)
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New FreeBSD Alpha port (Alfred)
Overhaul shared memory segments (Tom)
Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson)
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Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
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New contrib/pg_logger
New --template option to createdb
New contrib/pg_control utility (Oliver)
New FreeBSD tools ipc_check, start-scripts/freebsd
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    </para>
   </sect2>
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   <note>
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   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Jdbc fixes (Peter)
Large object fix (Tom)
Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)
Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
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Fix for psql \l+ when multibyte enabled (Tatsuo)
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Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
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Fix for memory allocation problem in user authentication code (Tom)
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Remove bogus use of int4out() (Tom)
Fixes for multiple subqueries in COALESCE or BETWEEN (Tom)
Fix for failure of triggers on heap open in certain cases (Jeroen van
    Vianen)
Fix for erroneous selectivity of not-equals (Tom)
Fix for erroneous use of strcmp() (Tom)
Fix for bug where storage manager accesses items beyond end of file
    (Tom)
Fix to include kernel errno message in all smgr elog messages (Tom)
Fix for '.' not in PATH at build time (SL Baur)
Fix for out-of-file-descriptors error (Tom)
Fix to make pg_dump dump 'iscachable' flag for functions (Tom)
Fix for subselect in targetlist of Append node (Tom)
Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
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Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update row versions when source
    and destination of a row version lie on the same page (Tom)
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Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
Buffer fix (Tom)
Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
    types (Tatsuo)
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    </para>
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     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
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    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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    </para>
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   <note>
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    This is a cleanup release for 7.0.
   </para>
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     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
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    <title>Changes</title>
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     <programlisting>
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Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
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New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
optimizer tunings (Tom)
Fix create user for pgaccess
Fix for UNLISTEN failure
IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
Fix small memory leak (Tom)
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Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb (Tatsuo)
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Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
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Add SJIS UDC (NEC selection IBM kanji) support (Eiji Tokuya)
Fix too long syslog message (Tatsuo)
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Fix problem with quoted indexes that are too long (Tom)
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JDBC ResultSet.getTimestamp() fix (Gregory Krasnow & Floyd Marinescu)
ecpg changes (Michael)
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    </para>
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   <note>
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    This release contains improvements in many areas, demonstrating
    the continued growth of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
    There are more improvements and fixes in 7.0 than in any previous
    release. The developers have confidence that this is the best
    release yet; we do our best to put out only solid releases, and
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    <varlistentry>
     <term>
      Foreign Keys
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Foreign keys are now implemented, with the exception of PARTIAL MATCH
       foreign keys. Many users have been asking for this feature, and we are
       pleased to offer it.
      </para>
     </listitem>
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      Optimizer Overhaul
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Continuing on work started a year ago, the optimizer has been
       improved, allowing better query plan selection and faster performance
       with less memory usage.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
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      Updated <application>psql</application>
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       <application>psql</application>, our interactive terminal monitor, has been
       updated with a variety of new features. See the <application>psql</application> manual page for details.
      </para>
     </listitem>
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      Join Syntax
     </term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       SQL92 join syntax is now supported, though only as
       <literal>INNER JOIN</> for this release. <literal>JOIN</>,
       <literal>NATURAL JOIN</>, <literal>JOIN</>/<literal>USING</>,
       and <literal>JOIN</>/<literal>ON</> are available, as are
       column correlation names.
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
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   <sect2>
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    <para>
     A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application>
     is required for those wishing to migrate data from any
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     most robust method for upgrades.
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    <para>
     Interface and compatibility issues to consider for the new
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       The date/time types <type>datetime</type> and
       <type>timespan</type> have been superseded by the
       SQL92-defined types <type>timestamp</type> and
       <type>interval</type>. Although there has been some effort to
       ease the transition by allowing
       <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to recognize
       the deprecated type names and translate them to the new type
       names, this mechanism may not be completely transparent to
       your existing application.
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      <para>
       The optimizer has been substantially improved in the area of
       query cost estimation. In some cases, this will result in
       decreased query times as the optimizer makes a better choice
       for the preferred plan. However, in a small number of cases,
       usually involving pathological distributions of data, your
       query times may go up. If you are dealing with large amounts
       of data, you may want to check your queries to verify
       performance.
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      <para>
       The string function <function>CHAR_LENGTH</function> is now a
       native function. Previous versions translated this into a call
       to <function>LENGTH</function>, which could result in
       ambiguity with other types implementing
       <function>LENGTH</function> such as the geometric types.
      </para>
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     <programlisting>
Bug Fixes
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Fix SELECT coalesce(f1,0) FROM int4_tbl GROUP BY f1 (Tom)
Fix SELECT sentence.words[0] FROM sentence GROUP BY sentence.words[0] (Tom)
Fix GROUP BY scan bug (Tom)
Improvements in SQL grammar processing (Tom)
Fix for views involved in INSERT ... SELECT ... (Tom)
Fix for SELECT a/2, a/2 FROM test_missing_target GROUP BY a/2 (Tom)
Fix for subselects in INSERT ... SELECT (Tom)
Prevent INSERT ... SELECT ... ORDER BY (Tom)
Fixes for relations greater than 2GB, including vacuum
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Improve propagating system table changes to other backends (Tom)
Improve propagating user table changes to other backends (Tom)
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Fix handling of temp tables in complex situations (Bruce, Tom)
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Prevent any rows from being returned by GROUP BY if no rows processed (Tom)
Fix SELECT COUNT(1) FROM table WHERE ...' if no rows matching WHERE (Tom)
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Fix pg_upgrade so it works for MVCC (Tom)
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Fix for "f1 datetime DEFAULT 'now'"  (Tom)
Fix problems with CURRENT_DATE used in DEFAULT (Tom)
Allow comment-only lines, and ;;; lines too. (Tom)
Improve recovery after failed disk writes, disk full (Hiroshi)
Fix cases where table is mentioned in FROM but not joined (Tom)
Allow HAVING clause without aggregate functions (Tom)
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Improve pg_dump failure error reports (Bruce)
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Allow sorts and hashes to exceed 2GB file sizes (Tom)
Fix for pg_dump dumping of inherited rules (Tom)
Fix for NULL handling comparisons (Tom)
Fix inconsistent state caused by failed CREATE/DROP commands (Hiroshi)
Fix for dbname with dash
Prevent DROP INDEX from interfering with other backends (Tom)
Fix file descriptor leak in verify_password()
Fix for "Unable to identify an operator =$" problem
Fix ODBC so no segfault if CommLog and Debug enabled (Dirk Niggemann)
Fix for recursive exit call (Massimo)
Fix for extra-long timezones (Jeroen van Vianen)
Make pg_dump preserve primary key information (Peter E)
Prevent databases with single quotes (Peter E)
Prevent DROP DATABASE inside  transaction (Peter E)
ecpg memory leak fixes (Stephen Birch)
Fix for SELECT null::text, SELECT int4fac(null) and SELECT 2 + (null) (Tom)
Y2K timestamp fix (Massimo)
Fix for VACUUM 'HEAP_MOVED_IN was not expected' errors (Tom)
Fix for views with tables/columns containing spaces  (Tom)
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Fix for spinlock stuck problem when error is generated (Hiroshi)
Fix ipcclean on Linux
Fix handling of NULL constraint conditions (Tom)
Fix memory leak in odbc driver (Nick Gorham)
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Fix for privilege check on UNION tables (Tom)
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Fix to allow SELECT 'a' LIKE 'a' (Tom)
Fix for SELECT 1 + NULL (Tom)
Fixes to CHAR
Fix log() on numeric type (Tom)
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Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted (Hiroshi)
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Fix INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns (Tom)
Fix CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) with INSERT (Tom)
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Fix UNION with LIMIT
Fix CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2
Fix CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user)
Fix mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT
Fix SELECT * FROM pg_class where oid in (0,-1)
Fix SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12
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Prevent user who can create databases can modifying pg_database table (Peter E)
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Fix btree to give a useful elog when key &gt; 1/2 (page - overhead) (Tom)
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Fix INSERT of 0.0 into DECIMAL(4,4) field (Tom)
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Enhancements
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New CLI interface include file sqlcli.h, based on SQL3/SQL98
Remove all limits on query length, row length limit still exists (Tom)
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Update jdbc protocol to 2.0 (Jens Glaser <email>jens@jens.de</email>)
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Add TRUNCATE command to quickly truncate relation (Mike Mascari)
Fix to give super user and createdb user proper update catalog rights (Peter E)
Allow ecpg bool variables to have NULL values (Christof)
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Issue ecpg error if NULL value for variable with no NULL indicator (Christof)
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Allow ^C to cancel COPY command (Massimo)
Add SET FSYNC and SHOW PG_OPTIONS commands(Massimo)
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Function name overloading for dynamically-loaded C functions (Frankpitt)
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Add CmdTuples() to libpq++(Vince)
New CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and SET CONSTRAINTS commands(Jan)
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configure --enable-debug adds -g (Peter E)
configure --disable-debug removes -g (Peter E)
Allow more complex default expressions (Tom)
First real FOREIGN KEY constraint trigger functionality (Jan)
Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH FULL ... ON DELETE CASCADE (Jan)
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Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH &lt;unspecified&gt; referential actions (Don Baccus)
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Allow WHERE restriction on ctid (physical heap location) (Hiroshi)
Move pginterface from contrib to interface directory, rename to pgeasy (Bruce)
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Change pgeasy connectdb() parameter ordering (Bruce)
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Require SELECT DISTINCT target list to have all ORDER BY columns (Tom)
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Add Oracle's COMMENT ON command (Mike Mascari <email>mascarim@yahoo.com</email>)
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libpq's PQsetNoticeProcessor function now returns previous hook(Peter E)
Prevent PQsetNoticeProcessor from being set to NULL (Peter E)
Make USING in COPY optional (Bruce)
Allow subselects in the target list (Tom)
Allow subselects on the left side of comparison operators (Tom)
New parallel regression test (Jan)
Change backend-side COPY to write files with permissions 644 not 666 (Tom)
Force permissions on PGDATA directory to be secure, even if it exists (Tom)
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Added psql LASTOID variable to return last inserted oid (Peter E)
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Add privilege check for vacuum (Peter E)
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New libpq functions to allow asynchronous connections: PQconnectStart(), 
   PQconnectPoll(), PQresetStart(), PQresetPoll(), PQsetenvStart(), 
   PQsetenvPoll(), PQsetenvAbort (Ewan Mellor)
New libpq PQsetenv() function (Ewan Mellor)
create/alter user extension (Peter E)
New postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts under $PGDATA (Tatsuo)
New scripts for create/drop user/db (Peter E)
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Major psql overhaul (Peter E)
Add const to libpq interface (Peter E)
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New libpq function PQoidValue (Peter E)
Show specific non-aggregate causing problem with GROUP BY (Tom)
Make changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd file (Peter E)
Add aggregate(DISTINCT ...) (Tom)
Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs (Peter E)
Make postgres user have a password by default (Peter E)
Add CREATE/ALTER/DROP GROUP (Peter E)
All administration scripts now support --long options (Peter E, Karel)
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Vacuumdb script now supports --all option (Peter E)
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Add pg_ctl script to control backend start-up (Tatsuo)
Add postmaster.opts.default file to store start-up flags (Tatsuo)
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Allow --with-mb=SQL_ASCII
Increase maximum number of index keys to 16 (Bruce)
Increase maximum number of function arguments to 16 (Bruce)
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Allow configuration of maximum number of index keys and arguments (Bruce)
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Allow unprivileged users to change their passwords (Peter E)
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Password authentication enabled; required for new users (Peter E)
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Disallow dropping a user who owns a database (Peter E)
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Change initdb option --with-mb to --enable-multibyte
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Add option for initdb to prompts for superuser password (Peter E)
Allow complex type casts like col::numeric(9,2) and col::int2::float8 (Tom)
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Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E)
New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions (Tatsuo)
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libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
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Improve conversion of types in casts that don't specify a length
New plperl internal programming language (Mark Hollomon)
Allow COPY IN to read file that do not end with a newline (Tom)
Indicate when long identifiers are truncated (Tom)
Allow aggregates to use type equivalency (Peter E)
Add Oracle's to_char(), to_date(), to_datetime(), to_timestamp(), to_number()
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Add SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ... (Tom)
Check to be sure ORDER BY is compatible with the DISTINCT operation (Tom)
Add NUMERIC and int8 types to ODBC
Improve EXPLAIN results for Append, Group, Agg, Unique (Tom)
Add ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY (Stephan Szabo)
Allow SELECT .. FOR UPDATE in PL/pgSQL (Hiroshi)
Enable backward sequential scan even after reaching EOF (Hiroshi)
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Add btree indexing of boolean values, &gt;= and &lt;= (Don Baccus)
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Print current line number when COPY FROM fails (Massimo)
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Recognize POSIX time zone e.g. "PST+8" and "GMT-8" (Thomas)
Add DEC as synonym for DECIMAL (Thomas)
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Add SESSION_USER as SQL92 key word, same as CURRENT_USER (Thomas)
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Implement SQL92 column aliases (aka correlation names) (Thomas)
Implement SQL92 join syntax (Thomas)
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Make INTERVAL reserved word allowed as a column identifier (Thomas)
Implement REINDEX command (Hiroshi)
Accept ALL in aggregate function SUM(ALL col) (Tom)
Prevent GROUP BY from using column aliases (Tom)
New psql \encoding option (Tatsuo)
Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state (Hiroshi)
Allow negation of a negative number in all cases
Add ecpg descriptors (Christof, Michael)
Allow CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT f1::char(8) FROM tbl
Allow casts with length, like foo::char(8)
New libpq functions PQsetClientEncoding(), PQclientEncoding() (Tatsuo)
Add support for SJIS user defined characters (Tatsuo)
Larger views/rules supported
Make libpq's PQconndefaults() thread-safe (Tom)
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Allow column aliases on views CREATE VIEW name (collist)
Fixes for views with subqueries (Tom)
Allow UPDATE table SET fld = (SELECT ...) (Tom)
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SET command options no longer require quotes
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New SET SEED command
New pg_options.sample file
New SET FSYNC command (Massimo)
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Allow pg_descriptions when creating tables
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Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters (Peter E)
Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null] (Peter E)
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Types
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Many array fixes (Tom)
Allow bare column names to be subscripted as arrays (Tom)
Improve type casting of int and float constants (Tom)
Cleanups for int8 inputs, range checking, and type conversion (Tom)
Fix for SELECT timespan('21:11:26'::time) (Tom)
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netmask('x.x.x.x/0') is 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0 (Oleg Sharoiko)
Add btree index on NUMERIC (Jan)
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Perl fix for large objects containing NUL characters (Douglas Thomson) 
ODBC fix for for large objects (free)
Fix indexing of cidr data type
Fix for Ethernet MAC addresses (macaddr type) comparisons
Fix for date/time types when overflows happened in computations (Tom)
Allow array on int8 (Peter E)
Fix for rounding/overflow of NUMERIC type, like NUMERIC(4,4) (Tom)
Allow NUMERIC arrays
Fix bugs in NUMERIC ceil() and floor() functions (Tom)
Make char_length()/octet_length including trailing blanks (Tom)
Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (Peter E)
New lztext data type for compressed text fields
Revise code to handle coercion of int and float constants (Tom)
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NUMERIC now accepts scientific notation (Tom)
NUMERIC to int4 rounds (Tom)
Convert float4/8 to NUMERIC properly (Tom)
Allow type conversion with NUMERIC (Thomas)
Make ISO date style (2000-02-16 09:33) the default (Thomas)
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Allow NUMERIC round and trunc to accept negative scales (Tom)
New TIME WITH TIME ZONE type (Thomas)
Add MAX()/MIN() on time type (Thomas)
Add abs(), mod(), fac() for int8 (Thomas)
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Rename functions to round(), sqrt(), cbrt(), pow() for float8 (Thomas)
Add transcendental math functions (e.g. sin(), acos()) for float8 (Thomas)
Add exp() and ln() for NUMERIC type
Rename NUMERIC power() to pow() (Thomas)
Improved TRANSLATE() function (Edwin Ramirez, Tom)
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Allow LOCALE to use indexes in regular expression searches (Tom)
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Performance
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Prevent exponential space consumption with many AND's and OR's (Tom)
Collect attribute selectivity values for system columns (Tom)
Reduce memory usage of aggregates (Tom)
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Fix r-tree index optimizer selectivity (Thomas)
Improve optimizer selectivity computations and functions (Tom)
Optimize btree searching for cases where many equal keys exist (Tom)
Enable fast LIKE index processing only if index present (Tom)
Re-use free space on index pages with duplicates (Tom)
Improve hash join processing (Tom)
Prevent descending sort if result is already sorted(Hiroshi)
Allow commuting of index scan query qualifications (Tom)
Prefer index scans in cases where ORDER BY/GROUP BY is required (Tom)
Allocate large memory requests in fix-sized chunks for performance (Tom)
Fix vacuum's performance by reducing memory allocation requests (Tom)
Implement constant-expression simplification (Bernard Frankpitt, Tom)
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Prevent quadruple use of disk space when doing internal sorting (Tom)
Faster sorting by calling fewer functions (Tom)
Create system indexes to match all system caches (Bruce, Hiroshi)
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Make system caches use system indexes (Bruce)
Make all system indexes unique (Bruce)
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Improve pg_statistics management for VACUUM speed improvement (Tom)
Flush backend cache less frequently (Tom, Hiroshi)
COPY now reuses previous memory allocation, improving performance (Tom)
Improve optimization cost estimation (Tom)
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Improve optimizer estimate of range queries x &gt; lowbound AND x &lt; highbound (Tom)
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Use DNF instead of CNF where appropriate (Tom, Taral)
Further cleanup for OR-of-AND WHERE-clauses (Tom)
Make use of index in OR clauses (x = 1 AND y = 2) OR (x = 2 AND y = 4) (Tom)
Smarter optimizer computations for random index page access (Tom)
New SET variable to control optimizer costs (Tom)
Optimizer queries based on LIMIT, OFFSET, and EXISTS qualifications (Tom)
Reduce optimizer internal housekeeping of join paths for speedup (Tom)
Major subquery speedup (Tom)
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Fewer fsync writes when fsync is not disabled (Tom)
Improved LIKE optimizer estimates (Tom)
Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries (Vadim)
Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster (Tom)
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Source Tree Changes
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Fix for linux PPC compile
New generic expression-tree-walker subroutine (Tom)
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Clean up #include in /include directory (Bruce)
Add scripts for checking includes (Bruce)
Remove un-needed #include's from *.c files (Bruce)
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Change #include's to use &lt;&gt; and "" as appropriate (Bruce)
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Enable Windows compilation of libpq
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Alpha spinlock fix from Uncle George <email>gatgul@voicenet.com</email>
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Overhaul of optimizer data structures (Tom)
Fix to cygipc library (Yutaka Tanida)
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Allow pgsql to work on newer Cygwin snapshots (Dan)
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New catalog version number (Tom)
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Add Linux ARM
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Rename heap_replace to heap_update
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Update for QNX (Dr. Andreas Kardos)
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New platform-specific regression handling (Tom)
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Rename oid8 -&gt; oidvector and int28 -&gt; int2vector (Bruce)
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Included all yacc and lex files into the distribution (Peter E.)
Remove lextest, no longer needed (Peter E)
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Fix for libpq and psql on Windows (Magnus)
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Internally change datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval (Thomas)
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Fix for plpgsql on BSD/OS
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Add SQL_ASCII test case to the regression test (Tatsuo)
configure --with-mb now deprecated (Tatsuo)
NT fixes
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NetBSD fixes (Johnny C. Lam <email>lamj@stat.cmu.edu</email>)
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Fixes for Alpha compiles
New multibyte encodings
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NT-specific patch
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subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
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Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indexes(Thomas)
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Improve it so that it checks for multicolumn constraints(Thomas)
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Fix for Windows making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
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Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
Fix SET NAMES working
int8 fixes(Thomas)
Fix vacuum's memory consumption(Hiroshi,Tatsuo)
Reduce the total memory consumption of vacuum(Tom)
Fix for timestamp(datetime)
Rule deparsing bugfixes(Tom)
Fix quoting problems in mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in and mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh.in(Tom)
This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Vadim)
document -x for pg_dump(Bruce)
Fix for unary operators in rule deparser(Tom)
Comment out FileUnlink of excess segments during mdtruncate()(Tom)
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Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
   when reach end of pattern before end of text(Tom)
Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom)
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Add NT README file
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Portability fixes for linux_ppc, IRIX, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
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Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)
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Patch to allow vacuum on multisegment tables(Hiroshi)
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R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)
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ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)
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New expression subtree code(Tom)
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Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)
Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)
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Fix to prevent too large row from being created(Bruce)
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plpgsql fixes
Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)
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Add ^ precedence(Bruce)
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Rename sort files called pg_temp to pg_sorttemp(Bruce)
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Fix for microseconds in time values(Tom)
Tutorial source cleanup
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>

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  <sect1 id="release-6-5">
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   <title>Release 6.5</title>

   <note>
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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1999-06-09</simpara>
   </note>

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   <para>
    This release marks a major step in the development team's mastery of the source
    code we inherited from Berkeley.  You will see we are now easily adding
    major features, thanks to the increasing size and experience of our
    world-wide development team.
   </para>

   <para>
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    Here is a brief summary of the more notable changes:
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    <variablelist>
     <varlistentry>
      <term>
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       Multiversion concurrency control(MVCC)
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      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        This removes our old table-level locking, and replaces it with
        a locking system that is superior to most commercial database
        systems.  In a traditional system, each row that is modified
        is locked until committed, preventing reads by other users.
        MVCC uses the natural multiversion nature of
        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to allow readers to
        continue reading consistent data during writer activity.
        Writers continue to use the compact pg_log transaction system.
        This is all performed without having to allocate a lock for
        every row like traditional database systems.  So, basically,
        we no longer are restricted by simple table-level locking; we
        have something better than row-level locking.
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Hot backups from <application>pg_dump</application>
      </term>
      <listitem>
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       <para>
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        <application>pg_dump</application> takes advantage of the new
        MVCC features to give a consistent database dump/backup while
        the database stays online and available for queries.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Numeric data type
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        We now have a true numeric data type, with
        user-specified precision.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Temporary tables
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Temporary tables are guaranteed to have unique names
        within a database session, and are destroyed on session exit.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       New SQL features
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement
        support.  We have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL,
        SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
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      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Speedups
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        We continue to speed up <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>,
        thanks to the variety of talents within our team.  We have
        sped up memory allocation, optimization, table joins, and row
        transfer routines.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Ports
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        We continue to expand our port list, this time including
        <systemitem class="osname">Windows NT</>/<systemitem>ix86</> and <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>/<systemitem>arm32</>.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

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      <term>
       Interfaces
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        Most interfaces have new versions, and existing functionality
        has been improved.
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
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     <varlistentry>
      <term>
       Documentation
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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        New and updated material is present throughout the
        documentation. New <acronym>FAQ</acronym>s have been
        contributed for <systemitem class="osname">SGI</> and <systemitem class="osname">AIX</> platforms.
        The <citetitle>Tutorial</citetitle> has introductory information
        on <acronym>SQL</acronym> from Stefan Simkovics.
        For the <citetitle>User's Guide</citetitle>, there are
        reference pages covering the postmaster and more utility
        programs, and a new appendix
        contains details on date/time behavior.
        The <citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle> has a new
        chapter on troubleshooting from Tom Lane.
        And the <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle> has a
        description of query processing, also from Stefan, and details 
        on obtaining the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source
        tree via anonymous <productname>CVS</productname> and
        <productname>CVSup</productname>. 
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       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
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    </variablelist>
   </para>

   <sect2>
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    <para>
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     A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application>
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     <application>pg_upgrade</application> can <emphasis>not</emphasis>
     be used to upgrade to this release because the on-disk structure
     of the tables has changed compared to previous releases.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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     The new Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) features can
     give somewhat different behaviors in multiuser
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     environments. <emphasis>Read and understand the following section 
      to ensure that your existing applications will give you the
      behavior you need.</emphasis>
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     <para>
      Because readers in 6.5 don't lock data, regardless of transaction
      isolation level, data read by one transaction can be overwritten by
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      <command>SELECT</command> it doesn't mean that this row really exists
      at the time it is returned (i.e. sometime after the statement or
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      transaction began) nor that the row is protected from being deleted or
      updated by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
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      a commit or rollback.
     </para>

     <para>
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      concurrent updates one must use <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</command> or
      an appropriate <command>LOCK TABLE</command> statement. This should be
      taken into account when porting applications from previous releases of
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     </para>

     <para>
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      Keep the above in mind if you are using
      <filename>contrib/refint.*</filename> triggers for
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      to use <command>LOCK parent_table IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE</command>
      command if a transaction is going to update/delete a primary key and
      use <command>LOCK parent_table IN SHARE MODE</command> command if a
      transaction is going to update/insert a foreign key.

      <note>
       <para>
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        Note that if you run a transaction in SERIALIZABLE mode then you must
        execute the <command>LOCK</command> commands above before execution of any
        <acronym>DML</acronym> statement
        (<command>SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/FETCH/COPY_TO</command>) in the
        transaction.
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       </para>
      </note>
     </para>

     <para>
      These inconveniences will disappear in the future
      when the ability to read dirty
      (uncommitted) data (regardless of isolation level) and true referential
      integrity will be implemented.
     </para>
    </sect3>
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    </sect2>
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   <sect2>
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    <title>Changes</title>

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    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Bug Fixes
---------
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Fix for creating tables with mixed-case constraints(Billy)
Change exp()/pow() behavior to generate error on underflow/overflow(Jan)
Fix bug in pg_dump -z
Memory overrun cleanups(Tatsuo)
Fix for lo_import crash(Tatsuo)
Adjust handling of data type names to suppress double quotes(Thomas)
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Fix deadlock so it only checks once after one second of sleep(Bruce)
Fixes for aggregates and PL/pgsql(Hiroshi)
Fix for subquery crash(Vadim)
Fix for libpq function PQfnumber and case-insensitive names(Bahman Rafatjoo)
Fix for large object write-in-middle, no extra block, memory consumption(Tatsuo)
Fix for pg_dump -d or -D and  quote special characters in INSERT
Repair serious problems with dynahash(Tom)
Fix INET/CIDR portability problems
Fix problem with selectivity error in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN(Bruce)
Fix executor so mergejoin of different column types works(Tom)
Fix for Alpha OR selectivity bug
Fix OR index selectivity problem(Bruce)
Fix so \d shows proper length for char()/varchar()(Ryan)
Fix tutorial code(Clark)
Improve destroyuser checking(Oliver)
Fix for Kerberos(Rodney McDuff)
Fix for dropping database while dirty buffers(Bruce)
Fix so sequence nextval() can be case-sensitive(Bruce)
Fix !!= operator
Drop buffers before destroying database files(Bruce)
Fix case where executor evaluates functions twice(Tatsuo)
Allow sequence nextval actions to be case-sensitive(Bruce)
Fix optimizer indexing not working for negative numbers(Bruce)
Fix for memory leak in executor with fjIsNull
Fix for aggregate memory leaks(Erik Riedel)
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Clean up system table bugs(Tom)
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Fix for dumping of CREATE OPERATOR(Tom)
Fix for backward scanning of cursors(Hiroshi Inoue)
Fix for COPY FROM STDIN when using \i(Tom)
Fix for subselect is compared inside an expression(Jan)
Fix handling of error reporting while returning rows(Tom)
Fix problems with reference to array types(Tom,Jan)
Prevent UPDATE SET oid(Jan)
Fix pg_dump so -t option can handle case-sensitive tablenames
Fixes for GROUP BY in special cases(Tom, Jan)
Fix for memory leak in failed queries(Tom)
DEFAULT now supports mixed-case identifiers(Tom)
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Fix for computations in views(Jan)
Fix for aggregates on array indexes(Tom)
Fix for DEFAULT handles single quotes in value requiring too many quotes
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Fix security problem with non-super users importing/exporting large objects(Tom)
Rollback of transaction that creates table cleaned up properly(Tom)
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Enhancements
------------
Add "vacuumdb" utility
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New pg_dump table output format(Constantin)
Add string min()/max() functions(Thomas)
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New moddatetime contrib(Terry)
Update to pgaccess 0.96(Constantin)
Add routines for single-byte "char" type(Thomas)
Improved substr() function(Thomas)
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New Serialized mode(Vadim)
Fix for tables over 2gigs(Peter)
New SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL(Vadim)
New LOCK TABLE IN ... MODE(Vadim)
Update ODBC driver(Byron)
New NUMERIC data type(Jan)
New SELECT FOR UPDATE(Vadim)
Handle "NaN" and "Infinity" for input values(Jan)
Improved date/year handling(Thomas)
Improved handling of backend connections(Magnus)
New options ELOG_TIMESTAMPS and USE_SYSLOG options for log files(Massimo)
New TCL_ARRAYS option(Massimo)
New INTERSECT and EXCEPT(Stefan)
New pg_index.indisprimary for primary key tracking(D'Arcy)
New pg_dump option to allow dropping of tables before creation(Brook)
Speedup of row output routines(Tom)
New READ COMMITTED isolation level(Vadim)
New TEMP tables/indexes(Bruce)
Prevent sorting if result is already sorted(Jan)
New memory allocation optimization(Jan)
Allow psql to do \p\g(Bruce)
Allow multiple rule actions(Jan)
Added LIMIT/OFFSET functionality(Jan)
Improve optimizer when joining a large number of tables(Bruce)
New intro to SQL from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan, Thomas)
New intro to backend processing from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan)
Improved int8 support(Ryan Bradetich, Thomas, Tom)
New routines to convert between int8 and text/varchar types(Thomas)
New bushy plans, where meta-tables are joined(Bruce)
Enable right-hand queries by default(Bruce)
Allow reliable maximum number of backends to be set at configure time
      (--with-maxbackends and postmaster switch (-N backends))(Tom)
GEQO default now 10 tables because of optimizer speedups(Tom)
Allow NULL=Var for MS-SQL portability(Michael, Bruce)
Modify contrib check_primary_key() so either "automatic" or "dependent"(Anand)
Allow psql \d on a view show query(Ryan)
Speedup for LIKE(Bruce)
Ecpg fixes/features, see src/interfaces/ecpg/ChangeLog file(Michael)
JDBC fixes/features, see src/interfaces/jdbc/CHANGELOG(Peter)
Make % operator have precedence like /(Bruce)
Add new postgres -O option to allow system table structure changes(Bruce)
Update contrib/pginterface/findoidjoins script(Tom)
Major speedup in vacuum of deleted rows with indexes(Vadim) 
Allow non-SQL functions to run different versions based on arguments(Tom)
Add -E option that shows actual queries sent by \dt and friends(Masaaki Sakaida)
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New contrib/vacuumlo removes large objects not referenced(Peter)
New initialization for table sizes so non-vacuumed tables perform better(Tom)
Improve error messages when a connection is rejected(Tom)
Support for arrays of char() and varchar() fields(Massimo)
Overhaul of hash code to increase reliability and performance(Tom)
Update to PyGreSQL 2.4(D'Arcy)
Changed debug options so -d4 and -d5 produce different node displays(Jan)
New pg_options: pretty_plan, pretty_parse, pretty_rewritten(Jan)
Better optimization statistics for system table access(Tom)
Better handling of non-default block sizes(Massimo)
Improve GEQO optimizer memory consumption(Tom)
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pg_dump now uses -z(ACL's) as default(Bruce)
backend cache, memory speedups(Tom)
have pg_dump do everything in one snapshot transaction(Vadim)
fix for large object memory leakage, fix for pg_dumping(Tom)
INET type now respects netmask for comparisons
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Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock(Vadim)
Allow VIEWs on UNIONS(Jan)
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Source Tree Changes
-------------------
Improve port matching(Tom)
Portability fixes for SunOS
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New port to Cobalt Qube(Mips) running Linux(Tatsuo)
Port to NetBSD/m68k(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
Port to NetBSD/sun3(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
Port to NetBSD/macppc(Toshimi Aoki)
Fix for tcl/tk configuration(Vince)
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NT dynamic loading now works(Daniel Horak)
Add ARM32 support(Andrew McMurry)
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New install commands for plpgsql(Jan)
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    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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<para>
The 6.4.1 release was improperly packaged.  This also has one additional
bug fix.
</para>


<sect2>
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<para>
A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
6.4.*.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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<para>
<programlisting>
Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
</programlisting>
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This is basically a cleanup release for 6.4.  We have fixed a variety of
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<sect2>
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<para>
A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
6.4.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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<para>
<programlisting>
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Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce)
EXPLAIN VERBOSE coredump fix(Vadim)
Fix shared-library problems on Linux
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Fix a couple of pg_dump bugs
Configure matches template/.similar entries better(Tom)
Change builtin function names from SPI_* to spi_*
OR WHERE clause fix(Vadim)
Fixes for mixed-case table names(Billy)
contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh/sh fix(Thomas)
libpq memory overrun fix
SunOS fixes(Tom)
Change exp() behavior to generate error on underflow(Thomas)
pg_dump fixes for memory leak, inheritance constraints, layout change
update pgaccess to 0.93
Fix prototype for 64-bit platforms
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New ecpg man page
Fix memory overruns(Tatsuo)
Fix for lo_import() crash(Bruce)
Better search for install program(Tom)
Timezone fixes(Tom)
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HP-UX fixes(Tom)
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Use implicit type coercion for matching DEFAULT values(Thomas)
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Add routines to help with single-byte (internal) character type(Thomas)
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Compilation of libpq for Windows fixes(Magnus)
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<para>
There are <emphasis>many</emphasis> new features and improvements in this release.
Thanks to our developers and maintainers, nearly every aspect of the system
has received some attention since the previous release.
Here is a brief, incomplete summary:

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<listitem>
<para>
Views and rules are now functional thanks to extensive new code in the 
rewrite rules system from Jan Wieck. He also wrote a chapter on it
for the <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle>.
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</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Client/server communications has been cleaned up, with better support for
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</para>
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There is a new chapter in the <citetitle>User's Guide</citetitle>
which covers this topic.
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<listitem>
<para>
Three new data types have been added. 
Two types, <type>inet</type> and <type>cidr</type>, support various forms
of IP network, subnet, and machine addressing. There is now an 8-byte integer
type available on some platforms. See the chapter on data types
in the <citetitle>User's Guide</citetitle> for details.
A fourth type, <type>serial</type>, is now supported by the parser as an
amalgam of the <type>int4</type> type, a sequence, and a unique index.
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Several more <acronym>SQL92</acronym>-compatible syntax features have been
added, including <command>INSERT DEFAULT VALUES</command>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
The automatic configuration and installation system has received some
attention, and should be more robust for more platforms than it has ever
been.
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<para>
A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> 
or <application>pg_dumpall</application>
is required for those wishing to migrate data from any
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<title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Bug Fixes
---------
Fix for a tiny memory leak in PQsetdb/PQfinish(Bryan)
Remove char2-16 data types, use char/varchar(Darren)
Pqfn not handles a NOTICE message(Anders)
Reduced busywaiting overhead for spinlocks with many backends (dg)
Stuck spinlock detection (dg)
Fix up "ISO-style" timespan decoding and encoding(Thomas)
Fix problem with table drop after rollback of transaction(Vadim)
Change error message and remove non-functional update message(Vadim)
Fix for COPY array checking
Fix for SELECT 1 UNION SELECT NULL
Fix for buffer leaks in large object calls(Pascal)
Change owner from oid to int4 type(Bruce)
Fix a bug in the oracle compatibility functions btrim() ltrim() and rtrim()
Fix for shared invalidation cache overflow(Massimo)
Prevent file descriptor leaks in failed COPY's(Bruce)
Fix memory leak in libpgtcl's pg_select(Constantin)
Fix problems with username/passwords over 8 characters(Tom)
Fix problems with handling of asynchronous NOTIFY in backend(Tom)
Fix of many bad system table entries(Tom)

Enhancements
------------
Upgrade ecpg and ecpglib,see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
Show the index used in an EXPLAIN(Zeugswetter)
EXPLAIN  invokes  rule system and shows plan(s) for rewritten queries(Jan)
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Multibyte awareness of many data types and functions, via configure(Tatsuo)
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New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
New createdb -E multibyte option(Tatsuo)
Select version(); now returns PostgreSQL version(Jeroen)
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libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
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Allow cancel from client of backend query(Tom)
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psql now cancels query with Control-C(Tom)
libpq users need not issue dummy queries to get NOTIFY messages(Tom)
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NOTIFY now sends sender's PID, so you can tell whether it was your own(Tom)
PGresult struct now includes associated error message, if any(Tom)
Define "tz_hour" and "tz_minute" arguments to date_part()(Thomas)
Add routines to convert between varchar and bpchar(Thomas)
Add routines to allow sizing of varchar and bpchar into target columns(Thomas)
Add bit flags to support timezonehour and minute in data retrieval(Thomas)
Allow more variations on valid floating point numbers (e.g. ".1", "1e6")(Thomas)
Fixes for unary minus parsing with leading spaces(Thomas)
Implement TIMEZONE_HOUR, TIMEZONE_MINUTE per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
Check for and properly ignore FOREIGN KEY column constraints(Thomas)
Define USER as synonym for CURRENT_USER per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
Enable HAVING clause but no fixes elsewhere yet.
Make "char" type a synonym for "char(1)" (actually implemented as bpchar)(Thomas)
Save string type if specified for DEFAULT clause handling(Thomas)
Coerce operations involving different data types(Thomas)
Allow some index use for columns of different types(Thomas)
Add capabilities for automatic type conversion(Thomas)
Cleanups for large objects, so file is truncated on open(Peter)
Readline cleanups(Tom)
Allow psql  \f \ to make spaces as delimiter(Bruce)
Pass pg_attribute.atttypmod to the frontend for column field lengths(Tom,Bruce)
Msql compatibility library in /contrib(Aldrin)
Remove the requirement that ORDER/GROUP BY clause identifiers be 
included in the target list(David)
Convert columns to match columns in UNION clauses(Thomas)
Remove fork()/exec() and only do fork()(Bruce)
Jdbc cleanups(Peter)
Show backend status on ps command line(only works on some platforms)(Bruce)
Pg_hba.conf now has a sameuser option in the database field
Make lo_unlink take oid param, not int4
New DISABLE_COMPLEX_MACRO for compilers that can't handle our macros(Bruce)
Libpgtcl now handles NOTIFY as a Tcl event, need not send dummy queries(Tom)
libpgtcl cleanups(Tom)
Add -error option to libpgtcl's pg_result command(Tom)
New locale patch, see docs/README/locale(Oleg)
Fix for pg_dump so CONSTRAINT and CHECK syntax is correct(ccb)
New contrib/lo code for large object orphan removal(Peter)
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New psql command "SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'encoding'" for multibytes
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contrib/noupdate code to revoke update permission on a column
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libpq can now be compiled on Windows(Magnus)
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Add PQsetdbLogin() in libpq
New 8-byte integer type, checked by configure for OS support(Thomas)
Better support for quoted table/column names(Thomas)
Surround table and column names with double-quotes in pg_dump(Thomas)
PQreset() now works with passwords(Tom)
Handle case of GROUP BY target list column number out of range(David)
Allow UNION in subselects
Add auto-size to screen to \d? commands(Bruce)
Use UNION to show all \d? results in one query(Bruce)
Add \d? field search feature(Bruce)
Pg_dump issues fewer \connect requests(Tom)
Make pg_dump -z flag work better, document it in manual page(Tom)
Add HAVING clause with full support for subselects and unions(Stephan)
Full text indexing routines in contrib/fulltextindex(Maarten)
Transaction ids now stored in shared memory(Vadim)
New PGCLIENTENCODING when issuing COPY command(Tatsuo)
Support for SQL92 syntax "SET NAMES"(Tatsuo)
Support for LATIN2-5(Tatsuo)
Add UNICODE regression test case(Tatsuo)
Lock manager cleanup, new locking modes for LLL(Vadim)
Allow index use with OR clauses(Bruce)
Allows "SELECT NULL ORDER BY 1;"
Explain VERBOSE prints the plan, and now pretty-prints the plan to
the postmaster log file(Bruce)
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Add indexes display to \d command(Bruce)
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Allow GROUP BY on functions(David)
New pg_class.relkind for large objects(Bruce)
New way to send libpq NOTICE messages to a different location(Tom)
New \w write command to psql(Bruce)
New /contrib/findoidjoins scans oid columns to find join relationships(Bruce)
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Allow binary-compatible indexes to be considered when checking for valid
Indexes for restriction clauses containing a constant(Thomas)
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New ISBN/ISSN code in /contrib/isbn_issn
Allow NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, BETWEEN, and NOT BETWEEN constraint(Thomas)
New rewrite system fixes many problems with rules and views(Jan)
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        * Rules on relations work
        * Event qualifications on insert/update/delete work
        * New OLD variable to reference CURRENT, CURRENT will be remove in future
        * Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in rule qualifications/actions
        * Insert/update/delete rules on views work
        * Multiple rule actions are now supported, surrounded by parentheses
        * Regular users can create views/rules on tables they have RULE permits
        * Rules and views inherit the privileges of the creator
        * No rules at the column level
        * No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
        * New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
        * Only a single action on SELECT rules
        * Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
        * handle subselects
        * handle aggregates on views
        * handle insert into select from view works
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System indexes are now multikey(Bruce)
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Oidint2, oidint4, and oidname types are removed(Bruce)
Use system cache for more system table lookups(Bruce)
New backend programming language PL/pgSQL in backend/pl(Jan)
New SERIAL data type, auto-creates sequence/index(Thomas)
Enable assert checking without a recompile(Massimo)
User lock enhancements(Massimo)
New setval() command to set sequence value(Massimo)
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Conditional trace package(Massimo)
New UNLISTEN command(Massimo)
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psql and libpq now compile under Windows using win32.mak(Magnus)
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Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
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Createuser options now available on the command line
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Code for 64-bit integer supported added, configure tested, int8 type(Thomas)
Prevent file descriptor leaf from failed COPY(Bruce)
New pg_upgrade command(Bruce)
Updated /contrib directories(Massimo)
New CREATE TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
New INSERT INTO TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
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pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around indentifiers
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disable system columns for views(Jan)
new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
no more double quotes in psql output
pg_dump now dumps views(Terry)
new SET QUERY_LIMIT(Tatsuo,Jan)

Source Tree Changes
-------------------
/contrib cleanup(Jun)
Inline some small functions called for every row(Bruce)
Alpha/linux fixes
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HP-UX cleanups(Tom)
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Multibyte regression tests(Soonmyung.)
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Remove --disabled options from configure
Define PGDOC to use POSTGRESDIR by default
Make regression optional
Remove extra braces code to pgindent(Bruce)
Add bsdi shared library support(Bruce)
New --without-CXX support configure option(Brook)
New FAQ_CVS
Update backend flowchart in tools/backend(Bruce)
Change atttypmod from int16 to int32(Bruce, Tom)
Getrusage() fix for platforms that do not have it(Tom)
Add PQconnectdb, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD to libpq man page
NS32K platform fixes(Phil Nelson, John Buller)
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SCO 7/UnixWare 2.x fixes(Billy,others)
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Sparc/Solaris 2.5 fixes(Ryan)
Pgbuiltin.3 is obsolete, move to doc files(Thomas)
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Nextstep support(Jacek)
Aix support(David)
pginterface manual page(Bruce)
shared libraries all have version numbers
merged all OS-specific shared library defines into one file
smarter TCL/TK configuration checking(Billy)
smarter perl configuration(Brook)
configure uses supplied install-sh if no install script found(Tom)
new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom)
</programlisting>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-6-3-2">
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<title>Release 6.3.2</title>

   <note>
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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1998-04-07</simpara>
   </note>

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<para>
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This is a bug-fix release for 6.3.x.
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</para>
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<para>
Summary:

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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
<para>
Repairs automatic configuration support for some platforms, including Linux,
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from breakage inadvertently introduced in version 6.3.1.
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
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Correctly handles function calls on the left side of BETWEEN and LIKE clauses.
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</para>
</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3 or 6.3.1.  A 
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<para>
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For upgrades from pre-6.3 installations,
refer to the installation and migration instructions for version 6.3.
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    <title>Changes</title>
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     <programlisting>
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Configure detection improvements for tcl/tk(Brook Milligan, Alvin)
Manual page improvements(Bruce)
BETWEEN and LIKE fix(Thomas)
fix for psql \connect used by pg_dump(Oliver Elphick)
New odbc driver
pgaccess, version 0.86
qsort removed, now uses libc version, cleanups(Jeroen)
fix for buffer over-runs detected(Maurice Gittens)
fix for buffer overrun in libpgtcl(Randy Kunkee)
fix for UNION with DISTINCT or ORDER BY(Bruce)
gettimeofday configure check(Doug Winterburn)
Fix "indexes not used" bug(Vadim)
docs additions(Thomas)
Fix for backend memory leak(Bruce)
libreadline cleanup(Erwan MAS)
Remove DISTDIR(Bruce)
Makefile dependency cleanup(Jeroen van Vianen)
ASSERT fixes(Bruce)
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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   <title>Release 6.3.1</title>

   <note>
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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1998-03-23</simpara>
   </note>

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    Summary:
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<listitem>
<para>
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Additional support for multibyte character sets.
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Repair byte ordering for mixed-endian clients and servers.
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Minor updates to allowed SQL syntax.
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Improvements to the configuration autodetection for installation.
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</para>
</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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refer to the installation and migration instructions for version 6.3.
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    <title>Changes</title>
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     <programlisting>
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ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh (alvin)
LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
ultrix4 cleanup
upgrade to pg_access 0.83
updated CLUSTER manual page
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multibyte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
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configure --with-pgport fix
pg_ident fix
big-endian fix for backend communications(Kataoka)
SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Jan)
several jdbc fixes(Peter)
libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
Sunos4 cleanup
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CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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   <simpara>1998-03-01</simpara>
   </note>

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    There are <emphasis>many</emphasis> new features and improvements in this release.
    Here is a brief, incomplete summary:
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    <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Many new SQL features, including
       full <acronym>SQL92</acronym> subselect capability
       (everything is here but target-list subselects).
      </para>
     </listitem>
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      <para>
       Support for client-side environment variables to specify time zone and date style.
      </para>
     </listitem>
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     <listitem>
      <para>
       Socket interface for client/server connection. This is the default now
       so you may need to start <application>postmaster</application> with the
       <option>-i</option> flag.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>
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      <para>
       Old-style <firstterm>time travel</firstterm>
       has been removed. Performance has been improved.
      </para>
     </listitem>
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   </para>
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    <para>
     Bruce Momjian wrote the following notes to introduce the new release.
    </para>
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    There are some general 6.3 issues that I want to mention.  These are
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    of the detailed changes list is still needed.
   </para>
   <para>
    First, we now have subselects.  Now that we have them, I would like to
    mention that without subselects, SQL is a very limited language.
    Subselects are a major feature, and you should review your code for
    places where subselects provide a better solution for your queries.  I
    think you will find that there are more uses for subselects than you may
    think.  Vadim has put us on the big SQL map with subselects, and fully
    functional ones too.  The only thing you can't do with subselects is to
    use them in the target list.
   </para>
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   <para>
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    <type>text</type>. Specifically, the <type>text</> and <type>varchar()</type> have a penalty for access to
    any columns after the first column of this type.  <type>char()</type> used to also
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   </para>
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    application without changes.
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    We also have real deadlock detection code.  No more sixty-second
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    release.  Check out the doc/ directory.
   </para>
   <para>
    For performance reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented
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   <para>
    This is the first release that really required an explanation for
    existing users.  In many ways, this was necessary because the new
    release removes many limitations, and the work-arounds people were using
    are no longer needed.
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---------
Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim)
Fix for tcl library crash(Jan)
Fix for array handling, from Gerhard Hintermayer
Fix acl error, and remove duplicate pqtrace(Bruce)
Fix psql \e for empty file(Bruce)
Fix for textcat on varchar() fields(Bruce)
Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres)
Fix vacuum analyze syntax problem(Bruce)
Fix for international identifiers(Tatsuo)
Fix aggregates on inherited tables(Bruce)
Fix substr() for out-of-bounds data
Fix for select 1=1 or 2=2, select 1=1 and 2=2, and select sum(2+2)(Bruce)
Fix notty output to show status result.  -q option still turns it off(Bruce)
Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce)
Fix cluster(Bruce)
Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce)
Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting
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        locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not
        getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce)
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Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having
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Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas)
Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas)
Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas)
Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce)
Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas)
Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0'
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Major large objects fix
Fix for GROUP BY showing duplicates(Vadim)
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Fix for index scans in MergeJoin(Vadim)
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Enhancements
------------
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Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY key words (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas)
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New User Manual(Thomas, others)
Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions
Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce)
Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 
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        CURRENT_USER(Thomas)
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Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas)
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Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indexes(Thomas)
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Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas)
Allow NOT NULL UNIQUE constraint clause (each allowed separately before)(Thomas)
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Allow PostgreSQL-style casting ("::") of non-constants(Thomas)
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Add support for SQL3 TRUE and FALSE boolean constants(Thomas)
Support SQL92 syntax for IS TRUE/IS FALSE/IS NOT TRUE/IS NOT FALSE(Thomas)
Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas)
Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas)
Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas)
Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings
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        (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
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Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
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Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
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Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
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        this query is done, was turned off in &lt;= 6.2.1(Vadim)
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New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
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New <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
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Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce)
Add Java support for passwords, European dates(Peter)
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Use indexes for LIKE and ~, !~ operations(Bruce)
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Add hash functions for datetime and timespan(Thomas)
Time Travel removed(Vadim, Bruce)
Add paging for \d and \z, and fix \i(Bruce)
Add Unix domain socket support to backend and to frontend library(Goran)
Implement CREATE DATABASE/WITH LOCATION and initlocation utility(Thomas)
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Allow more SQL92 and/or <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> reserved words as column identifiers(Thomas)
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Augment support for SQL92 SET TIME ZONE...(Thomas)
SET/SHOW/RESET TIME ZONE uses TZ backend environment variable(Thomas)
Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas)
Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas)
Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Thomas)
Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO
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        frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas)
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Regression tests time zone automatically set with "setenv PGTZ PST8PDT"(Thomas)
Add pg_description table for info on tables, columns, operators, types, and
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        aggregates(Bruce)
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Increase 16 char limit on system table/index names to 32 characters(Bruce)
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Rename system indexes(Bruce)
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Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas)
Define an "ISO-style" timespan output format with "hh:mm:ss" fields(Thomas)
Allow fractional values for delta times (e.g. '2.5 days')(Thomas)
Validate numeric input more carefully for delta times(Thomas)
Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas)
Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas)
Remove archive stuff(Bruce)
Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from
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        the system password file(Todd)
Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE privileges(Matt)
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Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas)
Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce)
Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas)
Allow NOT, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL in constraints(Thomas)
Implement UNIONs for SELECT(Bruce)
Add UNION, GROUP, DISTINCT to INSERT(Bruce)
varchar() stores only necessary bytes on disk(Bruce)
Fix for BLOBs(Peter)
Mega-Patch for JDBC...see README_6.3 for list of changes(Peter)
Remove unused "option" from PQconnectdb()
New LOCK command and lock manual page describing deadlocks(Bruce)
Add new psql \da, \dd, \df, \do, \dS, and \dT commands(Bruce)
Enhance psql \z to show sequences(Bruce)
Show NOT NULL and DEFAULT in psql \d table(Bruce)
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New psql .psqlrc file start-up(Andrew)
Modify sample start-up script in contrib/linux to show syslog(Thomas)
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New types for IP and MAC addresses in contrib/ip_and_mac(TomH)
Unix system time conversions with date/time types in contrib/unixdate(Thomas)
Update of contrib stuff(Massimo)
Add Unix socket support to DBD::Pg(Goran)
New python interface (PyGreSQL 2.0)(D'Arcy)
New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil)
Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil)
CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT
ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor
Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin)
Remove pg_time table(Vadim)
Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar)
Add report of offending line when COPY command fails
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Allow VIEW privileges to be set separately from the underlying tables. 
        For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan)
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Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC.  You must
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        explicitly grant such privileges.
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Clean up tutorial examples(Darren)

Source Tree Changes
-------------------
Add new html development tools, and flow chart in /tools/backend
Fix for SCO compiles
Stratus computer port Robert Gillies
Added support for shlib for BSD44_derived & i386_solaris
Make configure more automated(Brook)
Add script to check regression test results
Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce)
Rename heap_create to heap_create_and_catalog, rename heap_creatr
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        to heap_create()(Bruce)
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Sparc/Linux patch for locking(TomS)
Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc)
Add optimizer README file(Bruce)
Remove some recursion in optimizer and clean up some code there(Bruce)
Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry)
Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo)
AIX patch(Darren)
Change IS TRUE, IS FALSE, ... to expressions using "=" rather than
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        function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas)
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Various fixes NetBSD/Sparc related(TomH)
Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan)
Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce)
FAQ for FreeBSD(Marc)
Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc)
A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan)
New pg_attribute.atttypmod for type-specific info like varchar length(Bruce)
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UnixWare patches(Billy)
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New i386 'lock' for spinlock asm(Billy)
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Support for multiplexed backends is removed
Start an OpenBSD port
Start an AUX port
Start a Cygnus port
Add string functions to regression suite(Thomas)
Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas)
Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce)
</programlisting>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<title>Release 6.2.1</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1997-10-17</simpara>
   </note>

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<para>
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6.2.1 is a bug-fix and usability release on 6.2.
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</para>
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<para>
Summary:

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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
<para>
Allow strings to span lines, per <acronym>SQL92</acronym>.
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</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Include example trigger function for inserting user names on table updates.
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</para>
</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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This is a minor bug-fix release on 6.2. 
For upgrades from pre-6.2 systems, a full dump/reload is required. 
Refer to the 6.2 release notes for instructions.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1</title>
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<para>
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This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from version 6.2,
but is required from any release prior to 6.2.
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</para>
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<para>
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avg(money) is now calculated correctly. All other bug fixes take effect
upon updating the executables.
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</para>
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<para>
Another way to avoid dump/reload is to use the following SQL command
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from <command>psql</command> to update the existing system table:
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<programlisting>
  update pg_aggregate set aggfinalfn = 'cash_div_flt8'
   where aggname = 'avg' and aggbasetype = 790;
</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
This will need to be done to every existing database, including template1.
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</para>
</sect2>
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   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>

    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim)
Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim)
Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas)
Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim)
Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas)
Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim)
Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
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<title>Release 6.2</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1997-10-02</simpara>
   </note>

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<para>
A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from
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previous releases of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2</title>
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<para>
This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.1 database and a
restore of the database in 6.2.
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</para>
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<para>
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Note that the <command>pg_dump</command> and <command>pg_dumpall</command> utility from 6.2 should be used
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to dump the 6.1 database.
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</para>
</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 1.<replaceable>x</> to version 6.2</title>
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<para>
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
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</para>
</sect2>
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   <sect2>
    <title>Changes</title>
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    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Bug Fixes
---------
Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce)
Fix compile errors on overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes
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         from Solaris(Diab Jerius)
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Fix bugs in geometric line arithmetic (bad intersection calculations)(Thomas)
Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thomas)
Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim)
Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg)
Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg)
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Fix very old bug which made rows changed/inserted by a command
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        visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of 
        updated rows, etc.)(Vadim)
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Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick)
SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick)
Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface
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Fix OR (where x != 1 or x isnull didn't return rows with x NULL) (Vadim)
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Fix time_cmp function (Vadim)
Fix handling of functions with non-attribute first argument in 
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        WHERE clauses (Vadim)
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Fix GROUP BY when order of entries is different from order
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        in target list (Vadim)
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Fix pg_dump for aggregates without sfunc1 (Vadim)

Enhancements
------------
Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce)
Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim)
Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter)
pg_password utility
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Return number of rows inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim)
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Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim)
SPI (Server Programming Interface) allows execution of queries inside 
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        C-functions (Vadim)
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NOT NULL implemented (SQL92)(Robson Paniago de Miranda)
Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas)
Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas)
Add "//" single-line comments(Bruce)
Remove some restrictions on characters in operator names(Thomas)
DEFAULT and CONSTRAINT for tables implemented (SQL92)(Vadim & Thomas)
Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas)
Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
Support INTERVAL unit TO unit syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
Define types DOUBLE PRECISION, INTERVAL, CHARACTER,
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        and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas)
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Define type FLOAT(p) and rudimentary DECIMAL(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s) (SQL92)(Thomas)
Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas)
Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas)
Add syntax and warnings for UNION, HAVING, INNER and OUTER JOIN (SQL92)(Thomas)
Add more reserved words, mostly for SQL92 compliance(Thomas)
Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas)
Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas)
Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas)
Check explicitly for points and polygons contained within polygons
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        using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas)
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Add routine to convert circle-box(Thomas)
Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas)
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Replace distance operator "&lt;===&gt;" with "&lt;-&gt;"(Thomas)
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Replace "above" operator "!^" with "&gt;^" and "below" operator "!|" with "&lt;^"(Thomas)
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Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Thomas)
Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas)
Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim)
Allow functions and operators on internally-identical types to succeed(Bruce)
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Speed up backend start-up after profiling analysis(Bruce)
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Inline frequently called functions for performance(Bruce)
Reduce open() calls(Bruce)
psql:  Add PAGER for \h and \?,\C fix
Fix for psql pager when no tty(Bruce)
New entab utility(Bruce)
General trigger functions for referential integrity (Vadim)
General trigger functions for time travel (Vadim)
General trigger functions for AUTOINCREMENT/IDENTITY feature (Vadim)
MOVE implementation (Vadim)

Source Tree Changes
-------------------
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HP-UX 10 patches (Vladimir Turin)
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Added SCO support, (Daniel Harris)
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MkLinux patches (Tatsuo Ishii)
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Change geometric box terminology from "length" to "width"(Thomas)
Deprecate temporary unstored slope fields in geometric code(Thomas)
Remove restart instructions from INSTALL(Bruce)
Look in /usr/ucb first for install(Bruce)
Fix c++ copy example code(Thomas)
Add -o to psql manual page(Bruce)
Prevent relname unallocated string length from being copied into database(Bruce)
Cleanup for NAMEDATALEN use(Bruce)
Fix pg_proc names over 15 chars in output(Bruce)
Add strNcpy() function(Bruce)
remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary(Bruce)
new interfaces directory(Marc)
Replace fopen() calls with calls to fd.c functions(Bruce)
Make functions static where possible(Bruce)
enclose unused functions in #ifdef NOT_USED(Bruce)
Remove call to difftime() in timestamp support to fix SunOS(Bruce & Thomas)
Changes for Digital Unix
Portability fix for pg_dumpall(Bruce)
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Rename pg_attribute.attnvals to attdispersion(Bruce)
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"intro/unix" manual page now "pgintro"(Bruce)
"built-in" manual page now "pgbuiltin"(Bruce)
"drop" manual page now "drop_table"(Bruce)
Add "create_trigger", "drop_trigger" manual pages(Thomas)
Add constraints regression test(Vadim & Thomas)
Add comments syntax regression test(Thomas)
Add PGINDENT and support program(Bruce)
Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files(Bruce)
Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce)
SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy)
</programlisting>
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</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-6-1-1">
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<title>Release 6.1.1</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1997-07-22</simpara>
   </note>

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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1</title>
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<para>
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This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from version 6.1,
but is required from any release prior to 6.1.
Refer to the release notes for 6.1 for more details.
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</para>
</sect2>
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    <title>Changes</title>
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    <para>
     <programlisting>
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fix for SET with options (Thomas)
allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
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new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases
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fix for initdb --debug option(Yoshihiko Ichikawa))
lextest cleanup(Bruce)
hash fixes(Vadim)
fix date/time month boundary arithmetic(Thomas)
fix timezone daylight handling for some ports(Thomas, Bruce, Tatsuo)
timestamp overhauled to use standard functions(Thomas)
other code cleanup in date/time routines(Thomas)
psql's \d now case-insensitive(Bruce)
psql's backslash commands can now have trailing semicolon(Bruce)
fix memory leak in psql when using \g(Bruce)
major fix for endian handling of communication to server(Thomas, Tatsuo)
Fix for Solaris assembler and include files(Yoshihiko Ichikawa)
allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)
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     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </sect2>
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<title>Release 6.1</title>

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  relative to the original regression output.
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  algorithms. These algorithms introduce a random behavior in the ordering
  of query results when the query contains multiple qualifiers or multiple
  tables (giving the optimizer a choice on order of evaluation). Several
  regression tests have been modified to explicitly order the results, and
  hence are insensitive to optimizer choices. A few regression tests are
  for data types which are inherently unordered (e.g. points and time
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</para>
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  values) appears to have changed sometime after the original regression
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  The <quote>random</> results in the random test should cause the
  <quote>random</quote> test to be <quote>failed</quote>, since the
  regression tests are evaluated using a simple diff. However,
  <quote>random</> does not seem to produce random results on my test
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to version 6.1</title>
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<para>
This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.0 database and a
restore of the database in 6.1.
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<para>
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
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Bug Fixes
---------
packet length checking in library routines
lock manager priority patch
check for under/over flow of float8(Bruce)
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multitable join fix(Vadim)
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SIGPIPE crash fix(Darren)
large object fixes(Sven)
allow btree indexes to handle NULLs(Vadim)
timezone fixes(D'Arcy)
select SUM(x) can return NULL on no rows(Thomas)
internal optimizer, executor bug fixes(Vadim)
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fix problem where inner loop in &lt; or &lt;= has no rows(Vadim)
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prevent re-commuting join index clauses(Vadim)
fix join clauses for multiple tables(Vadim)
fix hash, hashjoin for arrays(Vadim)
fix btree for abstime type(Vadim)
large object fixes(Raymond)
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fix buffer leak in hash indexes (Vadim)
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fix rtree for use in inner scan (Vadim)
fix gist for use in inner scan, cleanups (Vadim, Andrea)
avoid unnecessary local buffers allocation (Vadim, Massimo)
fix local buffers leak in transaction aborts (Vadim)
fix file manager memmory leaks, cleanups (Vadim, Massimo)
fix storage manager memmory leaks (Vadim)
fix btree duplicates handling (Vadim)
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fix SELECT varchar()/char() INTO TABLE made zero-length fields(Bruce)
many psql, pg_dump, and libpq memory leaks fixed using Purify (Igor)

Enhancements
------------
attribute optimization statistics(Bruce)
much faster new btree bulk load code(Paul)
BTREE UNIQUE added to bulk load code(Vadim) 
new lock debug code(Massimo)
massive changes to libpg++(Leo)
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new WARN message for non-unique insert into unique key(Marc)
update x=-3, no spaces, now valid(Bruce)
remove case-sensitive identifier handling(Bruce,Thomas,Dan)
debug backend now pretty-prints tree(Darren)
new Oracle character functions(Edmund)
new plaintext password functions(Dan)
no such class or insufficient privilege changed to distinct messages(Dan)
new ANSI timestamp function(Dan)
new ANSI Time and Date types (Thomas)
move large chunks of data in backend(Martin)
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multicolumn btree indexes(Vadim)
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new SET var TO value command(Martin)
update transaction status on reads(Dan)
new locale settings for character types(Oleg)
new SEQUENCE serial number generator(Vadim)
GROUP BY function now possible(Vadim)
re-organize regression test(Thomas,Marc)
new optimizer operation weights(Vadim)
new psql \z grant/permit option(Marc)
new MONEY data type(D'Arcy,Thomas)
tcp socket communication speed improved(Vadim)
new VACUUM option for attribute statistics, and for certain columns (Vadim)
many geometric type improvements(Thomas,Keith)
additional regression tests(Thomas)
new datestyle variable(Thomas,Vadim,Martin)
more comparison operators for sorting types(Thomas)
new conversion functions(Thomas)
new more compact btree format(Vadim)
allow pg_dumpall to preserve database ownership(Bruce)
new SET GEQO=# and R_PLANS variable(Vadim)
old (!GEQO) optimizer can use right-sided plans (Vadim)
typechecking improvement in SQL parser(Bruce)
new SET, SHOW, RESET commands(Thomas,Vadim)
new \connect database USER option
new destroydb -i option (Igor)
new \dt and \di psql commands (Darren)
SELECT "\n" now escapes newline (A. Duursma)
new geometry conversion functions from old format (Thomas)

Source tree changes
-------------------
new configuration script(Marc)
readline configuration option added(Marc)
OS-specific configuration options removed(Marc)
new OS-specific template files(Marc)
no more need to edit Makefile.global(Marc)
re-arrange include files(Marc)
nextstep patches (Gregor Hoffleit)
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removed Windows-specific code(Bruce)
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removed postmaster -e option, now only postgres -e option (Bruce)
merge duplicate library code in front/backends(Martin)
now works with eBones, international Kerberos(Jun)
more shared library support
c++ include file cleanup(Bruce)
warn about buggy flex(Bruce)
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</programlisting>
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</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-6-0">
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<title>Release 6.0</title>

   <note>
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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1997-01-29</simpara>
   </note>

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<para>
A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from
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previous releases of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0</title>
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<para>
This migration requires a complete dump of the 1.09 database and a
restore of the database in 6.0.
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</para>
</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0</title>
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<para>
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
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</para>
</sect2>
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    <title>Changes</title>
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    <para>
     <programlisting>
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Bug Fixes
---------
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Allow vacuum to be run on one table or entire database(Bruce)
Array fixes
Fix array over-runs of memory writes(Kurt)
Fix elusive btree range/non-range bug(Dan)
Fix for hash indexes on some types like time and date
Fix for pg_log size explosion
Fix permissions on lo_export()(Bruce)
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Fix uninitialized reads of memory(Kurt)
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Fixed ALTER TABLE ... char(3) bug(Bruce)
Fixed a few small memory leaks
Fixed EXPLAIN handling of options and changed full_path option name
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Fixed output of group acl privileges
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Memory leaks (hunt and destroy with tools like Purify(Kurt)
Minor improvements to rules system
NOTIFY fixes
New asserts for run-checking
Overhauled parser/analyze code to properly report errors and increase speed
Pg_dump -d now handles NULL's properly(Bruce)
Prevent SELECT NULL from crashing server (Bruce)
Properly report errors when INSERT ... SELECT columns did not match
Properly report errors when insert column names were not correct
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psql \g filename now works(Bruce)
psql fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs
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SELECT * INTO TABLE . GROUP/ORDER BY gives unlink error if table exists(Bruce)
Several fixes for queries that crashed the backend
Starting quote in insert string errors(Bruce)
Submitting an empty query now returns empty status, not just " " query(Bruce)

Enhancements
------------
Add EXPLAIN manual page(Bruce)
Add UNIQUE index capability(Dan)
Add hostname/user level access control rather than just hostname and user
Add synonym of != for &lt;&gt;(Bruce)
Allow "select oid,* from table"
Allow BY,ORDER BY to specify columns by number, or by non-alias table.column(Bruce)
Allow COPY from the frontend(Bryan)
Allow GROUP BY to use alias column name(Bruce)
Allow actual compression, not just reuse on the same page(Vadim)
Allow installation-configuration option to auto-add all local users(Bryan)
Allow libpq to distinguish between text value '' and null(Bruce)
Allow non-postgres users with createdb privs to destroydb's
Allow restriction on who can create C functions(Bryan)
Allow restriction on who can do backend COPY(Bryan)
Can shrink tables, pg_time and pg_log(Vadim & Erich)
Change debug level 2 to print queries only, changed debug heading layout(Bruce)
Change default decimal constant representation from float4 to float8(Bruce)
European date format now set when postmaster is started
Execute lowercase function names if not found with exact case
Fixes for aggregate/GROUP processing, allow 'select sum(func(x),sum(x+y) from z'
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Gist now included in the distribution(Marc)
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Idend authentication of local users(Bryan)
Implement BETWEEN qualifier(Bruce)
Implement IN qualifier(Bruce)
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libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce)
libpq++ improvements
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Pg_dump create indexes after tables are loaded for speed(Bruce)
Pg_dumpall dumps all databases, and the user table
Pginterface additions for NULL values(Bruce)
Prevent postmaster from being run as root
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psql \h and \? is now readable(Bruce)
psql allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line(Bruce)
psql changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes(Bruce)
psql char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output(Bruce)
psql return code now more accurate(Bryan?)
psql updated help syntax(Bruce)
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Re-visit and fix vacuum(Vadim)
Reduce size of regression diffs, remove timezone name difference(Bruce)
Remove compile-time parameters to enable binary distributions(Bryan)
Reverse meaning of HBA masks(Bryan)
Secure Authentication of local users(Bryan)
Speed up vacuum(Vadim)
Vacuum now had VERBOSE option(Bruce)

Source tree changes
-------------------
All functions now have prototypes that are compared against the calls
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Change oid constants used in code to #define names
Decoupled sparc and solaris defines(Kurt)
Gcc -Wall compiles cleanly with warnings only from unfixable constructs
Major include file reorganization/reduction(Marc)
Make now stops on compile failure(Bryan)
Makefile restructuring(Bryan, Marc)
Merge bsdi_2_1 to bsdi(Bruce)
Monitor program removed
Name change from Postgres95 to PostgreSQL
New config.h file(Marc, Bryan)
PG_VERSION now set to 6.0 and used by postmaster
Portability additions, including Ultrix, DG/UX, AIX, and Solaris
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Remove duplicate OIDS in system tables(Dan)
Remove duplicate system catalog info or report mismatches(Dan)
Removed many os-specific #define's
Restructured object file generation/location(Bryan, Marc)
Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc)
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Unused/uninitialized variables corrected
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</programlisting>
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</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-1-09">
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<title>Release 1.09</title>
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   <note>
   <title>Release date</title>
   <simpara>1996-11-04</simpara>
   </note>

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<para>
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Sorry, we didn't keep track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09.  Some of
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the changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09
releases.
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</para>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-1-02">
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<title>Release 1.02</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   <simpara>1996-08-01</simpara>
   </note>

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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1</title>
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<para>
Here is a new migration file for 1.02.1.  It includes the 'copy' change
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and a script to convert old <acronym>ASCII</acronym> files.
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</para>
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<note>
<para>
The following notes are for the benefit of users who want to migrate
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databases from <productname>Postgres95</> 1.01 and 1.02 to <productname>Postgres95</> 1.02.1.
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</para>
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<para>
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to migrate old databases, you do not need to read any further.
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</note>

<para>
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</para>
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<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Start up a new 1.02.1 postmaster
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</para>
</step>
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<step>
<para>
Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.02.1 to 1.01 or 1.02
   databases.  This is done by running the new 1.02.1 server against
   your own 1.01 or 1.02 database and applying the queries attached at
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   the end of the file.   This can be done easily through <command>psql</>.  If your
   1.01 or 1.02 database is named <literal>testdb</literal> and you have cut the commands
   from the end of this file and saved them in <filename>addfunc.sql</filename>:
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<programlisting>
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        % psql testdb -f addfunc.sql
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</programlisting>

Those upgrading 1.02 databases will get a warning when executing the
last two statements in the file because they are already present in 1.02.  This is
not a cause for concern.
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</para>
</step>
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</procedure>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
<title>Dump/Reload Procedure</title>

<para>
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If you are trying to reload a pg_dump or text-mode, <literal>copy tablename to
stdout</literal> generated with a previous version, you will need to run the
attached <command>sed</command> script on the ASCII file before loading it into the
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database.  The old format used '.' as end-of-data, while '\.' is now the
end-of-data marker.  Also, empty strings are now loaded in as '' rather
than NULL. See the copy manual page for full details.

<programlisting>
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        sed 's/^\.$/\\./g' &lt;in_file &gt;out_file
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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If you are loading an older binary copy or non-<systemitem>stdout</> copy, there is no
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end-of-data character, and hence no conversion necessary.

<programlisting>
-- following lines added by agc to reflect the case-insensitive
-- regexp searching for varchar (in 1.02), and bpchar (in 1.02.1)
create operator ~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
create operator ~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
</programlisting>
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</para>
</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Changes</title>
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<para>
<programlisting>
Source code maintenance and development
 * worldwide team of volunteers
 * the source tree now in CVS at ftp.ki.net

Enhancements
 * psql (and underlying libpq library) now has many more options for
   formatting output, including HTML
 * pg_dump now output the schema and/or the data, with many fixes to
   enhance completeness.
 * psql used in place of monitor in administration shell scripts.
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 * date/time functions enhanced
 * NULL insert/update/comparison fixed/enhanced
 * TCL/TK lib and shell fixed to work with both tck7.4/tk4.0 and tcl7.5/tk4.1

Bug Fixes (almost too numerous to mention)
 * indexes
 * storage management
 * check for NULL pointer before dereferencing
 * Makefile fixes

New Ports
 * added SolarisX86 port
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 * added DG/UX port
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<!--
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Contributors (apologies to any missed)
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 * Kurt J. Lidl &lt;lidl@va.pubnix.com&gt; 
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        (missed in first run, but no less important)
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 * Erich Stamberger &lt;eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at&gt;
 * Jason Wright &lt;jason@shiloh.vnet.net&gt;
 * Cees de Groot &lt;C.deGroot@inter.NL.net&gt;
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 * ernst.molitor@uni-bonn.de
 * michael.siebenborn@ae3.Hypo.DE (Michael Siebenborn (6929))
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 * Brian E. Gallew &lt;geek+@cmu.edu&gt;
 * Vadim B. Mikheev &lt;vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su&gt;
 * Adam Sussman &lt;myddryn@vidya.com&gt;
 * Chris Dunlop &lt;chris@onthe.net.au&gt;
 * Marc G. Fournier &lt;scrappy@ki.net&gt;
 * Dan McGuirk &lt;mcguirk@indirect.com&gt;
 * Dr_George_D_Detlefsen &lt;drgeorge@ilt.com&gt;
 * Erich Stamberger &lt;eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at&gt;
 * Massimo Dal Zotto &lt;dz@cs.unitn.it&gt;
 * Randy Kunkee &lt;kunkee@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM&gt;
 * Rick Weldon &lt;rick@wisetech.com&gt;
 * Thomas van Reimersdahl &lt;reimersd@dali.techinfo.rwth-aachen.de&gt;
 * david bennett &lt;dave@bensoft.com&gt;
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 * Julian Assange &lt;proff@suburbia.net&gt;
 * Bruce Momjian &lt;pgman@candle.pha.pa.us&gt;
 * Paul "Shag" Walmsley &lt;ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu&gt;
 * "Alistair G. Crooks" &lt;azcb0@sde.uts.amdahl.com&gt;
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-->
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</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-1-01">
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<title>Release 1.01</title>

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   <title>Release date</title>
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   </note>

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<sect2>
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<title>Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01</title>
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<para>
The following notes are for the benefit of users who want to migrate
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In order to <productname>Postgres95</> version 1.01 with databases created with
<productname>Postgres95</> version 1.0, the following steps are required:  
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<step>
<para>
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Set the definition of <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> in <filename>src/Makefile.global</filename> to 16
   and <symbol>OIDNAMELEN</symbol> to 20.
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</step>
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<step>
<para>
Decide whether you want to use Host based authentication.  
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<step>
<para>
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</step>
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<step>
<para>
If you do not want host-based authentication, you can comment out
   the line
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<para>
   Note that host-based authentication is turned on by default, and if
   you do not take steps A or B above, the out-of-the-box 1.01 will
   not allow you to connect to 1.0 databases.
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<step>
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</step>
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<para>
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</step>
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</step>
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<para>
Start up a new 1.01 postmaster
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</step>
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<step>
<para>
Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.01 to 1.0
   databases.  This is done by running the new 1.01 server against
   your own 1.0 database and applying the queries attached and saving 
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   If your 1.0 database is name <literal>testdb</literal>:
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<programlisting>
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</programlisting>

and then execute the following commands (cut and paste from here):

<programlisting>
-- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01

create function int4eqoid (int4, oid) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function oideqint4 (oid, int4) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char2icregexeq (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char2icregexne (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char4icregexeq (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char4icregexne (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char8icregexeq (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char8icregexne (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char16icregexeq (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function char16icregexne (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function texticregexeq (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';
create function texticregexne (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
language 'internal';

-- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01

create operator = (leftarg = int4, rightarg = oid, procedure = int4eqoid);
create operator = (leftarg = oid, rightarg = int4, procedure = oideqint4);
create operator ~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregexne);
create operator ~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregexne);
create operator ~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregexne);
create operator ~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icregexne);
create operator ~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
create operator !~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
</programlisting>
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</step>
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<sect2>
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<para>
<programlisting>
Incompatibilities:
 * 1.01 is backwards compatible with 1.0 database provided the user
   follow the steps outlined in the MIGRATION_from_1.0_to_1.01 file.
   If those steps are not taken, 1.01 is not compatible with 1.0 database.

Enhancements:
 * added PQdisplayTuples() to libpq and changed monitor and psql to use it
 * added NeXT port (requires SysVIPC implementation)
 * added CAST .. AS ... syntax
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 * added 'internal' as a possible language for CREATE FUNCTION
   internal functions are C functions which have been statically linked
   into the postgres backend.
 * a new type "name" has been added for system identifiers (table names,
   attribute names, etc.)  This replaces the old char16 type.   The
   of name is set by the NAMEDATALEN #define in src/Makefile.global
 * a readable reference manual that describes the query language.
 * added host-based access control.  A configuration file ($PGDATA/pg_hba)
   is used to hold the configuration data.  If host-based access control
   is not desired, comment out HBA=1 in src/Makefile.global.
 * changed regex handling to be uniform use of Henry Spencer's regex code
   regardless of platform.  The regex code is included in the distribution
 * added functions and operators for case-insensitive regular expressions. 
   The operators are ~* and !~*.
 * pg_dump uses COPY instead of SELECT loop for better performance

Bug fixes:
 * fixed an optimizer bug that was causing core dumps when 
   functions calls were used in comparisons in the WHERE clause
 * changed all uses of getuid to geteuid so that effective uids are used
 * psql now returns non-zero status on errors when using -c
 * applied public patches 1-14
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<title>Release 1.0</title>

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   <simpara>1995-09-05</simpara>
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Copyright change:
 * The copyright of <productname>Postgres</productname> 1.0 has been loosened to be freely modifiable
   and modifiable for any purpose.  Please read the COPYRIGHT file.
   Thanks to Professor Michael Stonebraker for making this possible.

Incompatibilities:
 *  date formats have to be MM-DD-YYYY (or DD-MM-YYYY if you're using
   EUROPEAN STYLE).  This follows SQL-92 specs.
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Enhancements:
 *  sql LIKE syntax has been added
 *  copy command now takes an optional USING DELIMITER specification.
   delimiters can be any single-character string. 
 *  IRIX 5.3 port has been added.
   Thanks to Paul Walmsley and others.
 *  updated pg_dump to work with new libpq
 *  \d has been added psql 
   Thanks to Keith Parks
 *  regexp performance for architectures that use POSIX regex has been
   improved due to caching of precompiled patterns.
   Thanks to Alistair Crooks
 *  a new version of libpq++
   Thanks to William Wanders

Bug fixes:
 *  arbitrary userids can be specified in the createuser script
 *  \c to connect to other databases in psql now works.
 *  bad pg_proc entry for float4inc() is fixed
 *  users with usecreatedb field set can now create databases without
   having to be usesuper
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 *  fixed non-portable datetimes implementation
 *  added kerberos flags to the src/backend/Makefile
 *  libpq now works with kerberos
 *  typographic errors in the user manual have been corrected.
 *  btrees with multiple index never worked, now we tell you they don't
   work when you try to use them
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Incompatible changes:
 * BETA-0.3 IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DATABASES CREATED WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS
   (due to system catalog changes and indexing structure changes).
 * double-quote (") is deprecated as a quoting character for string literals;
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 * name of aggregates (eg. int4sum) are renamed in accordance with the
   SQL standard (eg. sum).
 * CHANGE ACL syntax is replaced by GRANT/REVOKE syntax.
 * float literals (eg. 3.14) are now of type float4 (instead of float8 in
   previous releases); you might have to do typecasting if you depend on it
   being of type float8.  If you neglect to do the typecasting and you assign
   a float literal to a field of type float8, you may get incorrect values
   stored!
 * LIBPQ has been totally revamped so that frontend applications
   can connect to multiple backends
 * the usesysid field in pg_user has been changed from int2 to int4 to
   allow wider range of Unix user ids.
 * the netbsd/freebsd/bsd o/s ports have been consolidated into a
   single BSD44_derived port.  (thanks to Alistair Crooks)

SQL standard-compliance (the following details changes that makes postgres95
more compliant to the SQL-92 standard):
 * the following SQL types are now built-in: smallint, int(eger), float, real,
   char(N), varchar(N), date and time.

   The following are aliases to existing postgres types:
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                integer, int -&gt; int4
                float, real  -&gt; float4
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   char(N) and varchar(N) are implemented as truncated text types. In
   addition, char(N) does blank-padding. 
 * single-quote (') is used for quoting string literals; '' (in addition to
   \') is supported as means of inserting a single quote in a string
 * SQL standard aggregate names (MAX, MIN, AVG, SUM, COUNT) are used
   (Also, aggregates can now be overloaded, i.e. you can define your
   own MAX aggregate to take in a user-defined type.)
 * CHANGE ACL removed. GRANT/REVOKE syntax added.  
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        For example:
                GRANT SELECT ON foobar TO GROUP my_group;
        The key word 'PUBLIC' is also supported to mean all users.      
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        access control
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     You must explicitly grant insert/update access to users.  To change
     this, modify the line in 
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     that defines ACL_WORLD_DEFAULT 

Bug fixes:
 * the bug where aggregates of empty tables were not run has been fixed. Now,
   aggregates run on empty tables will return the initial conditions of the
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 * the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work
 * NOTIFY in rule action bodies now work
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 * hash indexes work, and access methods in general should perform better.
   creation of large btree indexes should be much faster.  (thanks to Paul
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   Aoki)

Other changes and enhancements:
 * addition of an EXPLAIN statement used for explaining the query execution
   plan (eg. "EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM EMP" prints out the execution plan for
   the query).
 * WARN and NOTICE messages no longer have timestamps on them. To turn on
   timestamps of error messages, uncomment the line in
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   will be given.  This is the same message that is returned when
   a class is not found.  This dissuades non-privileged users from
   guessing the existence of privileged classes.
 * some additional system catalog changes have been made that are not
   visible to the user.

libpgtcl changes:
 * The -oid option has been added to the "pg_result" tcl command.
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 * the large object interface is available as pg_lo* tcl commands:
   pg_lo_open, pg_lo_close, pg_lo_creat, etc.

Portability enhancements and New Ports:
 * flex/lex problems have been cleared up.  Now, you should be able to use
   flex instead of lex on any platforms.  We no longer make assumptions of
   what lexer you use based on the platform you use. 
 * The Linux-ELF port is now supported.  Various configuration have been 
   tested:  The following configuration is known to work:
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   with everything in ELF format,

New utilities:
 * ipcclean added to the distribution
   ipcclean usually does not need to be run, but if your backend crashes
   and leaves shared memory segments hanging around, ipcclean will
   clean them up for you.

New documentation:
 * the user manual has been revised and libpq documentation added.
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Incompatible changes:
 * The SQL statement for creating a database is 'CREATE DATABASE' instead
   of 'CREATEDB'. Similarly, dropping a database is 'DROP DATABASE' instead
   of 'DESTROYDB'. However, the names of the executables 'createdb' and 
   'destroydb' remain the same.
 
New tools:
 * pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
 * pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
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        script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
        format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
        machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
        a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
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The following ports have been incorporated into postgres95-beta-0.02:
 * the NetBSD port by Alistair Crooks
 * the AIX port by Mike Tung
 * the Windows NT port by Jon Forrest (more stuff but not done yet)
 * the Linux ELF port by Brian Gallew

The following bugs have been fixed in postgres95-beta-0.02:
 * new lines not escaped in COPY OUT and problem with COPY OUT when first
   attribute is a '.' 
 * cannot type return to use the default user id in createuser
 * SELECT DISTINCT on big tables crashes
 * Linux installation problems
 * monitor doesn't allow use of 'localhost' as PGHOST
 * psql core dumps when doing \c or \l
 * the "pgtclsh" target missing from src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile
 * libpgtcl has a hard-wired default port number
 * SELECT DISTINCT INTO TABLE hangs
 * CREATE TYPE doesn't accept 'variable' as the internallength
 * wrong result using more than 1 aggregate in a SELECT
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    to run, presumably due to the scheduling vagaries of multitasking systems.
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     Timing with <function>fsync()</function> enabled:

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  Time   System
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since some additional regression tests have been included.
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