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TODO list for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Fri Oct 17 08:18:16 EDT 1997 |
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Last updated: Sun Feb 1 15:08:57 EST 1998 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at |
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the PostgreSQL WWW site, http://www.postgreSQL.org. |
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THE CHANGES FOR 6.2 AND 6.2.1 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT |
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THE CHANGES FOR 6.3 APPEAR AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT |
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A dash(-) marks changes to be in the next release. |
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Developers who have claimed items are: |
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* Bruce is Bruce Momjian<maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> |
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* Bryan is Bryan Henderson<bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net> |
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* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> |
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* Dan is Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@indirect.com> |
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* Daniel is Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> |
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* Darren is Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com> |
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* Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> |
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* Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at> |
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* Gerhard is Gerhard Reithofer <gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at> |
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* Goran is Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se> |
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* Henry is Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> |
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* Igor is Igor <igor@sba.miami.edu> |
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* Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de> |
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* Jun is Jun Kuwamura <juk@rccm.co.jp> |
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* Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com> |
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> |
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* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de> |
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* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> |
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* Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU> |
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* Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com> |
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* Peter is Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk> |
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* Raymond is Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> |
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* Soo-Ho Ok <shok@detc.dongeui-tc.ac.kr> |
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* Stefan Simkovics <ssimkovi@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at> |
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* Sven is Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> |
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* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> |
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* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <tgl@mythos.jpl.nasa.gov> |
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* Todd is Todd Brandys is <brandys@eng3.hep.uiuc.edu> |
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* Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su> |
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* Vivek is Vivek Khera <khera@kci.kciLink.com> |
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RELIABILITY |
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* -Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup(Erich) |
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* -Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager(Vadim) |
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* Fix CLUSTER |
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* Overhaul mdmgr/smgr to fix double unlinking and double opens, cleanup |
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* Overhaul bufmgr/lockmgr/transaction manager |
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* -Fix CLUSTER |
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* Remove EXTEND? |
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* Fix all NULL features, allow psql to print nulls meaningfully |
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* Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code (Daniel Kalchev?) |
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* COUNT on VIEW always returns zero (maybe because there is no oid for views?) |
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* -Aggregates on VIEW always returns zero (maybe because there is no oid for views?) |
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* CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge |
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* can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? |
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* Can lo_export()/lo_import() read/write anywhere, causing a security problem? |
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* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects |
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* Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {} |
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* Add GROUP BY and HAVING to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 |
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* -Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 |
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* lo_unlink() crashes server |
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* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime |
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* Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?) |
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* Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc(). |
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* -Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc(). |
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* SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails |
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* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1] |
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* SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TAB1, TAB2 fails |
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* SELECT SUM(2+2) FROM table dumps core |
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* -SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TAB1, TAB2 fails |
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* -SELECT SUM(2+2) FROM table dumps core |
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* UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails |
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* UPDATE key_table SET keyval=max(reftab.NUM)+1 WHERE tblname='reftab' fails |
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* INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT ... generates error on DISTINCT |
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* INSERT INTO table SELECT id, count(*) FROM table2 GROUP BY id generate error |
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* -UPDATE key_table SET keyval=count(reftab.num) fails |
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* -INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT ... does not accept DISTINCT |
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* -INSERT INTO table SELECT id, count(*) FROM table2 GROUP BY id generates error |
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* Make pg_dump preserve inheritance column order, do non-inherits first |
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* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table |
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* Replace table-level locking with row or page-level locking(Vadim) |
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* PRIMARY KEY during table creation |
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* -PRIMARY KEY during table creation(Thomas) |
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* Add SERIAL type |
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* Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump |
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* Transaction log |
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* -Preserve GRANT/REVOKE/pg_group in pg_dump |
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* Transaction log, so re-do log can be on a separate disk |
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* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance |
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* More access control over who can create tables and access the database |
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* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities (Stefan) |
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* add subselects, possibility using temporary SQL functions |
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* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities |
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* -add subselects(Vadim) |
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* Implement HAVING clause |
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* Implement EXISTS qualifier |
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* report "Not implemented" if valid syntax is supplied |
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* -Implement EXISTS qualifier |
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* -report "Not implemented" if valid syntax is supplied |
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* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) |
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* make VIEWs updateable where possible |
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* add UNIONS, INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS |
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* add temporary tables |
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* -add UNIONS(Bruce) |
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* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS |
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* add temporary tables(Bruce) |
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* add sql3 recursive unions |
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* add the concept of dataspaces |
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* allow conversion type casts on SELECT target fields |
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* add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING |
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* NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), |
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* NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), |
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* Allow compression of large fields or a compressed field type |
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* Fix the rules system(Jan?,Soo-Ho) |
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* robust |
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* Full set of text operations and functions |
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* word searches, concat,max() on text, char |
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* Large objects |
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* overwriting blocks has problems |
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* there are other problems, too. |
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* Fix large object mapping scheme |
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* -overwriting blocks has problems(Peter) |
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* -there are other problems, too.(Peter) |
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* Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype |
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* not to stuff everything as files in a single directory |
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* Better interface for adding to pg_group |
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* Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision |
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* Threaded version of the server or libpq |
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* Allow libpq to cancel query requests |
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* Add REGEX internationalization |
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* Add other language types for built-in functions |
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* expand to allow tcl, perl, java, |
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* -Add other language types for built-in functions |
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* expand to allow tcl, perl, java |
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* generalize the function manager switch to pass |
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* function sources to interpreter engines. |
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* remove time-travel feature(Vadim) |
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* reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) |
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* remove pg_time table(Vadim) |
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* -remove time-travel feature(Vadim) |
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* -reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) |
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* -remove pg_time table(Vadim) |
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* allow row re-use without vacuum, maybe?(Vadim) |
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* can't vacuum large objects |
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* can't reduce index file size with vacuum |
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* Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list(?) |
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* Allow queries about owner of tables, like: |
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* SELECT u.usesysid FROM postgres.pg_user u; |
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* Remove restriction that ORDER BY field must be in SELECT list |
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* Add word index for text fields, maybe with trigrams, i.e.: |
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* ' (cat | dog) & ! fox ' meaning text has cat or dog, but not fox |
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* Allow readline-type or editor command editing of multi-line SQL commands |
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* Populate backend status area and write program to dump status data |
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* Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature |
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* Remove stale files upon startup(Vivek) |
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* Add command to show privileges |
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* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT to convert column types |
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* Add syslog functionality |
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* Add syslog functionality(Marc) |
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* Add STDDEV/VARIANCE() function for standard deviation computation/variance |
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* Add table/column/function discription table indexed by oid |
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* add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) |
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* -Add table/column/function discription table indexed by oid |
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* -add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) |
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* add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes |
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* make large objects have their own reltype |
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* make number of backends a config parameter, storage/sinvaladt.h:MaxBackendId |
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* certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts |
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* make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction |
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* change the library/backend interface to use network byte order |
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* allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security |
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* Add PAGER for psql's \dt and \d tablename |
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* Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas) |
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* -allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security |
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* -Add PAGER for psql's \dt, \d, \z tablename |
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* -Make timezone set-able by client applications(Thomas) |
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* Restore unused oid's on backend exit if no one else has gotten oids |
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* remove non-standard types from the system, and make them loadable |
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* -make reads queue behind a write waiting for a lock(Bruce) |
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* -add LOCK statement(Bruce) |
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* -add report of offending line when COPY command fails |
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* have UPDATE/DELETE clean out indexes |
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* -allow varchar() to only store used bytes, not maximum |
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* allow WHERE restriction on ctid |
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* allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions |
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* Fix compile and security of Kerberos/GSSAPI code |
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* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?) |
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* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime |
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* Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables |
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* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes |
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* Use indexes in ORDER BY |
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* Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not first |
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* Use indexes in ORDER BY, min(), max() |
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* -Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not first |
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* Optimizing disjunctive queries |
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* Fix bushy-plans (Martin) |
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* Other optimizer bugs |
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* Is fsync use optimized? |
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* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries |
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* Cache most recent query plan(s?) |
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* Shared catalog cache, reduce lseek()'s by caching table size in shared area |
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* Allow compression of log and meta data |
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* Add FILLFACTOR to index creation |
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* Allow indexes to be used with OR clauses(Vadim) |
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* update pg_statistic table to remove operator column |
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* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim) |
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* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork() |
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* Update usermanual source(many) |
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* remove time-travel in documentation(Bruce) |
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* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST |
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* update libpq++ manual page |
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* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page |
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* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.2.1 RELEASE |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE |
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Changes in this release |
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Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas) |
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Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas) |
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Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas) |
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Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim) |
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Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim) |
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Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas) |
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Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim) |
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Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas) |
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Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim) |
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Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce) |
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Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan) |
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CHANGES IN THE 6.2 RELEASE |
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Developers who have claimed items are: |
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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org> |
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* Brook is Brook Milligan |
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* Bruce is Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> |
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* D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> |
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* Dan is Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@indirect.com> |
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* Darren is Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com> |
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* Goran is Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se> |
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* Henry is Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> |
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* James is James Hughes <jamesh@interpath.com> |
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* Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de> |
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* Jeroen is Jeroen van Vianen <jeroenv@design.nl> |
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* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> |
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* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de> |
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* Matt is Matt Maycock <maycock@intelliquest.com> |
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* Peter is Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk> |
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* Phil is Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk> |
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* Ryan is Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu> |
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* Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> |
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* Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> |
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* TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO> |
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* TomS is Tom Szybist |
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* Todd is Todd Brandys is <brandys@eng3.hep.uiuc.edu> |
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* Travis is Travis Melhiser <melhiser@viper.co.union.nc.us> |
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* Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su> |
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Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce) |
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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) |
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Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thomas) |
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Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim) |
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Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg) |
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Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg) |
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Fix very old bug which made tuples changed/inserted by a commnd |
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visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of |
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updated tuples, etc)(Vadim) |
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Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick) |
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SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick) |
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Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface |
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Fix OR (where x <> 1 or x isnull didn't return tuples with x NULL) (Vadim) |
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Fix time_cmp function (Vadim) |
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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) |
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Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim) |
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Fix for tcl library crash(Jan) |
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Fix for array handling, from Gerhard Hintermayer |
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Fix acl error, and remove duplicate pqtrace(Bruce) |
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Fix psql \e for empty file(Bruce) |
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Fix for textcat on varchar() fields(Bruce) |
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Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres) |
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Fix vacuum analyze syntax problem(Bruce) |
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Fix for international identifiers(Tatsuo) |
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Fix aggregates on inherited tables(Bruce) |
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Fix substr() for out-of-bounds data |
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Fix for select 1=1 or 2=2, select 1=1 and 2=2, and select sum(2+2)(Bruce) |
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Fix notty output to show status result. -q option still turns it off(Bruce) |
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Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce) |
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Fix cluster(Bruce) |
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Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce) |
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Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting |
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lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share |
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locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not |
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getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce) |
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Fix crashes in psql when executing queries from external files(James) |
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Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having |
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NULL values(Jeroen) |
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Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas) |
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Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas) |
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Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas) |
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Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce) |
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Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas) |
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Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0' |
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and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas) |
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Enhancements |
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Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce) |
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Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim) |
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Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter) |
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pg_password utility |
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Return number of tuples inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim) |
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Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim) |
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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) |
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Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas) |
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Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas) |
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Add "//" single-line comments(Bruce) |
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Remove some restrictions on characters in operator names(Thomas) |
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DEFAULT and CONSTRAINT for tables implemented (SQL92)(Vadim & Thomas) |
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Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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Support INTERVAL <unit> TO <unit> syntax (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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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) |
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Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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Add syntax and warnings for UNION, HAVING, INNER and OUTER JOIN (SQL92)(Thomas) |
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Add more reserved words, mostly for SQL92 compliance(Thomas) |
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Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas) |
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Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas) |
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Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas) |
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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) |
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Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas) |
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Replace distance operator "<===>" with "<->"(Thomas) |
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Replace "above" operator "!^" with ">^" and "below" operator "!|" with "<^"(Thomas) |
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Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Thomas) |
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Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas) |
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Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim) |
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Allow functions and operators on internally-identical types to succeed(Bruce) |
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Speed up backend startup after profiling analysis(Bruce) |
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Inline frequently called functions for performance(Bruce) |
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Reduce open() calls(Bruce) |
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psql: Add PAGER for \h and \?,\C fix |
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Fix for psql pager when no tty(Bruce) |
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New entab utility(Bruce) |
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General trigger functions for referential integrity (Vadim) |
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General trigger functions for time travel (Vadim) |
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General trigger functions for AUTOINCREMENT/IDENTITY feature (Vadim) |
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MOVE implementation (Vadim) |
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Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce) |
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<NOT DONE YET> Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY keywords (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas) |
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Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, |
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CURRENT_USER(Thomas) |
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Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions |
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Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas) |
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Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indices(Thomas) |
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Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas) |
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Allow NOT NULL UNIQUE constraint clause (each allowed separately before)(Thomas) |
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Allow Postgres-style casting ("::") of non-constants(Thomas) |
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Add support for SQL3 TRUE and FALSE boolean constants(Thomas) |
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Support SQL92 syntax for IS TRUE/IS FALSE/IS NOT TRUE/IS NOT FALSE(Thomas) |
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Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas) |
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Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas) |
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Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas) |
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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 indices(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 <= 6.2.1(Vadim) |
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New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan) |
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New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan) |
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Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce) |
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Add Java support for passwords, European dates(Peter) |
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Use indices for LIKE and ~, !~ operations(Bruce) |
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Add hash functions for datetime and timespan(Thomas) |
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Time Travel removed(Vadim, Bruce) |
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Add paging for \d and \z, and fix \i(Bruce) |
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Add Unix domain socket support to backend and to frontend library(Goran) |
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Implement CREATE DATABASE/WITH LOCATION and initlocation utility(Thomas) |
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Allow more SQL92 and/or Postgres reserved words as column identifiers(Thomas) |
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Augment support for SQL92 SET TIME ZONE...(Thomas) |
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SET/SHOW/RESET TIME ZONE uses TZ backend environment variable(Thomas) |
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Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas) |
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Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas) |
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Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Thomas) |
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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) |
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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 indices(Bruce) |
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Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas) |
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Define an "ISO-style" timespan output format with "hh:mm:ss" fields(Thomas) |
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Allow fractional values for delta times (e.g. '2.5 days')(Thomas) |
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Validate numeric input more carefully for delta times(Thomas) |
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Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas) |
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Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas) |
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Remove archive stuff(Bruce) |
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Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from |
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the system password file(Todd) |
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Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE permissions(Matt) |
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Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas) |
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Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce) |
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Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas) |
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Allow NOT, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL in constraints(Thomas) |
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Implement UNIONs for SELECT(Bruce) |
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Add UNION, GROUP, DISTINCT to INSERT(Bruce) |
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varchar() stores only necessary bytes on disk(Bruce) |
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Fix for BLOBs(Peter) |
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Mega-Patch for JDBC...see README_6.3 for list of changes(Peter) |
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Allow installation data block size and max tuple size configuration(Darren) |
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Remove unused "option" from PQconnectdb() |
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New LOCK command and lock manual page describing deadlocks(Bruce) |
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Add new psql \da, \dd, \df, \do, \dS, and \dT commands(Bruce) |
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Enhance psql \z to show sequences(Bruce) |
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Show NOT NULL and DEFAULT in psql \d table(Bruce) |
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New psql .psqlrc file startup(Andrew) |
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Modify sample startup 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) |
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Unix system time conversions with date/time types in contrib/unixdate(Thomas) |
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Update of contrib stuff(Massimo) |
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Add Unix socket support to DBD::Pg(Goran) |
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New python interface (PyGreSQL 2.0)(D'Arcy) |
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New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil) |
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Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil) |
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New HTML and Postscript documentation(Thomas) |
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Source Tree Changes |
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HPUX 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) |
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Deprecate temporary unstored slope fields in geometric code(Thomas) |
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Remove restart instructions from INSTALL(Bruce) |
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Look in /usr/ucb first for install(Bruce) |
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Fix c++ copy example code(Thomas) |
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Add -o to psql manual page(Bruce) |
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Prevent relname unallocated string length from being copied into database(Bruce) |
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Cleanup for NAMEDATALEN use(Bruce) |
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Fix pg_proc names over 15 chars in output(Bruce) |
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Add strNcpy() function(Bruce) |
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remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary(Bruce) |
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new interfaces directory(Marc) |
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Replace fopen() calls with calls to fd.c functions(Bruce) |
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Make functions static where possible(Bruce) |
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enclose unused functions in #ifdef NOT_USED(Bruce) |
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Remove call to difftime() in timestamp support to fix SunOS(Bruce & Thomas) |
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Changes for Digital Unix |
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Portability fix for pg_dumpall(Bruce) |
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Rename pg_attribute.attnvals to attdisbursion(Bruce) |
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"intro/unix" manual page now "pgintro"(Bruce) |
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"built-in" manual page now "pgbuiltin"(Bruce) |
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"drop" manual page now "drop_table"(Bruce) |
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Add "create_trigger", "drop_trigger" manual pages(Thomas) |
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Add constraints regression test(Vadim & Thomas) |
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Add comments syntax regression test(Thomas) |
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Add PGINDENT and support program(Bruce) |
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Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files(Bruce) |
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Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce) |
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SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy) |
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Add new html development tools, and flow chart in /tools/backend |
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Fix for SCO compiles |
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Stratus computer port "Gillies, Robert" <GilliesR@Nichols.com> |
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Added support for shlib for BSD44_derived & i386_solaris |
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Make configure more automated(Brook) |
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Add script to check regression test results |
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Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce) |
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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) |
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Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc) |
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Add optimizer README file(Bruce) |
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Remove some recursion in optimizer and clean up some code there(Bruce) |
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Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry) |
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Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo) |
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AIX patch(Darren) |
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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) |
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Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan) |
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Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce) |
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FAQ for FreeBSD(Marc) |
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Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc) |
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A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan) |
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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 spin lock asm(Billy) |
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Support for multiplexed backends is removed |
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Start an OpenBSD port |
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Start an AUX port |
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Start a Cygnus port |
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Add string functions to regression suite(Thomas) |
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Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas) |
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Bruce Momjian
28 years ago