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@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ With WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving |
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performance. If you have been using -F in previous releases to disable |
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disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its use. |
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TOAST - Previous releases had an 8k (or 32k) row length limit. |
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This limit made storage of long text fields difficult. With TOAST, long |
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rows of any length can be stored with good performance. |
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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 |
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difficult. With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored with good |
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performance. |
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Outer Joins - We now support outer joins. The UNION/NOT IN |
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workaround for outer joins is no longer required. We use the SQL92 |
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@ -73,13 +74,13 @@ Allow UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT to be used with ALL, subqueries, views, |
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Fix parser failures during aborted transactions (Tom) |
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Allow temporary relations to properly clean up indexes (Bruce) |
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Fix VACUUM problem with moving rows in same page (Tom) |
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Modify pg_dump so it dumps only user-defined items, not system-defined (Philip) |
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Modify pg_dump to better handle user-defined items in template1 (Philip) |
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Allow LIMIT in VIEW (Tom) |
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Require cursor FETCH to honor LIMIT (Tom) |
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Allow PRIMARY/FOREIGN Key definitions on inherited columns (Stephan) |
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Allow ORDER BY, LIMIT in sub-selects (Tom) |
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Allow UNION in CREATE RULE (Tom) |
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Make DROP TABLE rollback-able (Tom) |
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Make ALTER/DROP TABLE rollback-able (Vadim, Tom) |
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Store initdb collation in pg_control so collation cannot be changed (Tom) |
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Fix INSERT...SELECT with rules (Tom) |
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Fix FOR UPDATE inside views and subselects (Tom) |
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@ -151,7 +152,6 @@ Allow postmaster to listen on a specific IP address (David J. MacKenzie) |
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Allow socket path name to be specified in hostname by using leading slash |
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(David J. MacKenzie) |
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Allow CREATE DATABASE to specify template database (Tom) |
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New template0 database that contains no user additions(Tom) |
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Types |
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@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E) |
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New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom) |
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New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom) |
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CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom) |
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New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov) |
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Performance |
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@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling) |
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New configure --enable-syslog option (Marc) |
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New BSDI README (Bruce) |
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configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E) |
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Makefile/configuration/compilation cleanups (Peter E) |
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Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E) |
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New configure --with-python option (Peter E) |
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Solaris cleanups (Peter E) |
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Overhaul /contrib Makefiles (Karel) |
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@ -196,10 +197,13 @@ New BeOS port (David Reid, Cyril Velter) |
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Add proofreader's changes to docs (Addison-Wesley, Bruce) |
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New Alpha spinlock code (Adriaan Joubert, Compaq) |
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Unixware port overhaul (Peter E) |
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New Darwin/Mac OSX port (Bruce Hartzler) |
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New Darwin/Mac OSX port (Peter Bierman, Bruce Hartzler) |
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New FreeBSD Alpha port (Alfred) |
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Overhaul shared memory segments (Tom) |
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Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson) |
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Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman) |
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Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman) |
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New template0 database that contains no user additions(Tom) |
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Bruce Momjian
25 years ago