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TODO list for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Sun Feb 1 15:08:57 EST 1998 |
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Last updated: Fri Feb 27 13:32:53 EST 1998 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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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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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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* Phil is Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.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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* 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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* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.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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* Phil is Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.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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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org> |
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* Brook is Brook Milligan |
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* James is James Hughes <jamesh@interpath.com> |
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* Jeroen is Jeroen van Vianen <jeroenv@design.nl> |
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* Matt is Matt Maycock <maycock@intelliquest.com> |
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* Ryan is Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.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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* Travis is Travis Melhiser <melhiser@viper.co.union.nc.us> |
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* Billy is Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org> |
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* Brook is Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu> |
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* James is James Hughes <jamesh@interpath.com> |
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* Jeroen is Jeroen van Vianen <jeroenv@design.nl> |
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* Matt is Matt Maycock <maycock@intelliquest.com> |
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* Ryan is Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.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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* Travis is Travis Melhiser <melhiser@viper.co.union.nc.us> |
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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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* -Aggregates 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 vi |
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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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* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects |
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* UPDATE table SET table.value = 3 fails |
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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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* optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's |
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* elog() does not free all its memory(Jan) |
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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 |
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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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* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) |
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* make VIEWs updateable where possible |
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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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* add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING |
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* NCHAR (as distinguished from ordinary varchar), |
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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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* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas) |
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* make VIEWs updateable where possible |
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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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* add DECIMAL, NUMERIC, DOUBLE PRECISION, BIT, BIT VARYING |
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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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* making INSTEAD rules work |
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* add CONSTRAINT |
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* robust |
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* making INSTEAD rules work |
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* add CONSTRAINT |
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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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* word searches, concat,max() on text, char |
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* Large objects |
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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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* -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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* Add support for tables >2G, or test current version |
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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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* generalize the function manager switch to pass |
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* function sources to interpreter engines. |
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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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* add UNIQUE capability to non-btree indexes |
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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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* make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direct |
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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, \d, \z tablename |
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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 VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables |
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* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work |
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* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes |
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* Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class |
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* Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock |
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* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions |
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* Allow installation data block size and max tuple size configuration(Darren) |
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* Allow views on a UNION |
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* Allow views of aggregate columns |
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* Allow variable block sizes(Darren) |
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* System tables are now more update-able from SQL(Jan) |
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* New pg_shadow file, pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow(Jan) |
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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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* Use indexes in ORDER BY, min(), max()(Costin Oproiu) |
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* -Allow LIKE/wildcard matches to use indexes if the wildcard character is not |
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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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* 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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* Improve vacuum locking issues |
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DOCUMENTATION |
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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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Bug Fixes |
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Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim) |
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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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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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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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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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and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas) |
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Major large objects fix |
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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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Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY keywords (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas) |
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New User Manual(Thomas, others) |
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Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions |
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Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce) |
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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 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 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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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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(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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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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@ -294,12 +287,13 @@ 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 PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Tho |
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Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO |
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frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas) |
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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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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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@ -310,7 +304,7 @@ 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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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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@ -321,7 +315,6 @@ 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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@ -336,8 +329,17 @@ 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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CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT |
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ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor |
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Add GROUP BY to INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 |
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Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin) |
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Remove pg_time table(Vadim) |
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Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar) |
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Add report of offending line when COPY command fails |
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Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables. |
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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 permissions. |
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@ -349,7 +351,7 @@ 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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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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@ -358,7 +360,7 @@ 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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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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@ -374,3 +376,5 @@ 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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Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce) |
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Bruce Momjian
28 years ago