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author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2009-03-31 01:26:13 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2009-03-31 01:26:13 +0000 |
commit | c9aa8a62c026e6ac35ad286f7be77d21c04a7a48 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 410e6ecc2f7..c42909ff482 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.619 2009/03/30 22:01:15 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.620 2009/03/31 01:26:13 momjian Exp $ --> <!-- Typical markup: @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <title>Temporal Functions and Operators</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Have <function>to_char()</>'s localized month/day names depend @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. Taveira de Oliveira) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Cause <function>to_date()</> and <function>to_timestamp()</> @@ -370,14 +370,14 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. Jurd) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Provide consistent rounding for fractional seconds (Ron Mayer) bjm: combine with another item? </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Fix <function>to_timestamp()</> to not require upper/lower case @@ -385,13 +385,13 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. (<literal>BC</>/<literal>AD</>) format designations (Brendan Jurd) </para> - + <para> For example, input value <literal>ad</> now matches the format string <literal>AD</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Require the existence of periods in <function>to_timestamp()</> @@ -399,22 +399,22 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. (<literal>BC</>/<literal>AD</>) format designations to match (Brendan Jurd) </para> - + <para> For example, input value <literal>AD</> now does not match format string <literal>A.D.</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> <varname>DateStyle</> no longer controls <type>INTERVAL</> output (use new variable <varname>IntervalStyle</>) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> </sect3> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <title>Settings</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Convert many <filename>postgresql.conf</> settings to enumerated @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. values (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <varname>cursor_tuple_fraction</> parameter to control the @@ -587,57 +587,57 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. user (Robert Hell) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow underscores in <filename>postgresql.conf</> custom variable classes (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Authentication</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Report appropriate error message for combination of <literal>MD5</> authentication and <varname>db_user_namespace</> enabled (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support regular expressions in <filename>pg_ident.conf</> (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <productname>Kerberos</>/<acronym>GSSAPI</> parameters to be changed without restarting the postmaster (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4 id="release-8-4-pg-hba-conf"> <title><filename>pg_hba.conf</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Parse <filename>pg_hba.conf</> in the postmaster so errors are reported on reload (Magnus) </para> - + <para> Previously errors in the file wouldn't be detected until clients tried to connect, which could leave the system with a broken @@ -651,223 +651,223 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. if no usermap is specified (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Change all authentication options to be <literal>name=value</> settings (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow usermap parameter for all external authentication methods (Magnus) </para> - + <para> Previously this was only supported for <literal>ident</> authentication. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <literal>ident</> authentication over Unix-domain sockets on <productname>Solaris</> (Garick Hamlin) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>clientcert</> option to control requesting of a client certificate (Magnus) </para> - + <para> Previously this was controlled by the presence of a root certificate file in the server's data directory. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>cert</> authentication method to allow user authentication via <acronym>SSL</> certificates (Magnus) </para> - + <para> Previously <acronym>SSL</> certificates could only verify that the client had access to a certificate, not authenticate a user. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <literal>krb5</>, <literal>gssapi</> and <literal>sspi</> realm and <literal>krb5</> host settings to be specified in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Magnus) </para> - + <para> These override the settings in <filename>postgresql.conf</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>krb5</>, <literal>gssapi</>, and <literal>sspi</> <varname>include_realm</> parameter (Magnus) </para> - + <para> This allows identical usernames from different realms to be authenticated as different database users using usermaps. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Show all parsing errors instead of aborting after the first one (Selena Deckelmann) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - </sect3> + <sect4> + <title>Continuous Archiving</title> + <itemizedlist> - <sect3> - <title>Continuous Archiving</title> - <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Have <function>pg_stop_backup()</> wait for modified <acronym>WAL</> + files to be archived (Simon) + </para> - <listitem> - <para> - Have <function>pg_stop_backup()</> wait for modified <acronym>WAL</> - files to be archived (Simon) - </para> + <para> + This guarantees that the backup is valid at the time + <function>pg_stop_backup()</> completes. + </para> + </listitem> - <para> - This guarantees that the backup is valid at the time - <function>pg_stop_backup()</> completes. - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent normal shutdown if a continuous archiving base backup + is in progress (Laurenz Albe) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Prevent normal shutdown if a continuous archiving base backup - is in progress (Laurenz Albe) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Cancel a continuous archiving base backup if a fast shutdown + is requested (Laurenz Albe) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Cancel a continuous archiving base backup if a fast shutdown - is requested (Laurenz Albe) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Allow <filename>recovery.conf</> boolean variables to take the + same range of string values as <filename>postgresql.conf</> + (Bruce) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Allow <filename>recovery.conf</> boolean variables to take the - same range of string values as <filename>postgresql.conf</> - (Bruce) - </para> - </listitem> + </itemizedlist> - </itemizedlist> + </sect4> - </sect3> + <sect4> + <title>Monitoring</title> + <itemizedlist> - <sect3> - <title>Monitoring</title> - <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</> to report when + the Postgres configuration files were last loaded (George + Gensure) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</> to report when - the Postgres configuration files were last loaded (George - Gensure) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Add <function>pg_terminate_backend()</> to safely terminate a + backend (the <literal>SIGTERM</> signal works also) (Tom, Bruce) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Add <function>pg_terminate_backend()</> to safely terminate a - backend (the <literal>SIGTERM</> signal works also) (Tom, Bruce) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Add ability to track user-defined functions call counts and + runtimes via parameter <varname>track_functions</> (Martin + Pihlak) + </para> - <listitem> - <para> - Add ability to track user-defined functions call counts and - runtimes via parameter <varname>track_functions</> (Martin - Pihlak) - </para> + <para> + Function statistics appear in a new system table, + <literal>pg_stat_user_functions</>. However, inlined + <acronym>SQL</> functions are not tracked. + </para> + </listitem> - <para> - Function statistics appear in a new system table, - <literal>pg_stat_user_functions</>. However, inlined - <acronym>SQL</> functions are not tracked. - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Allow specification of the maximum <literal>pg_stat_activity</> + query string size via <varname>track_activity_query_size</> + parameter (Thomas Lee) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Allow specification of the maximum <literal>pg_stat_activity</> - query string size via <varname>track_activity_query_size</> - parameter (Thomas Lee) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Improve syslog performance by increasing the maximum line length + (Tom) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Improve syslog performance by increasing the maximum line length - (Tom) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Add read-only <filename>postgresql.conf</> variables <varname>segment_size</>, + <varname>wal_block_size</>, and <varname>wal_segment_size</> (Bernd Helmle) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Add read-only <filename>postgresql.conf</> variables <varname>segment_size</>, - <varname>wal_block_size</>, and <varname>wal_segment_size</> (Bernd Helmle) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + When reporting a deadlock, report all session queries involved + in the deadlock to the server log (Itagaki Takahiro) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - When reporting a deadlock, report all session queries involved - in the deadlock to the server log (Itagaki Takahiro) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + New <function>pg_stat_get_activity(pid)</> function to return + information about a specific process id (Magnus) + </para> + </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - New <function>pg_stat_get_activity(pid)</> function to return - information about a specific process id (Magnus) - </para> - </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Move the server statistics file into the subdirectory + <filename>pg_stat_tmp</> and allow its location to be specified + via <varname>stats_temp_directory</> (Magnus) + </para> - <listitem> - <para> - Move the server statistics file into the subdirectory - <filename>pg_stat_tmp</> and allow its location to be specified - via <varname>stats_temp_directory</> (Magnus) - </para> + <para> + This allows the statistics file to be placed in a + <acronym>RAM</>-resident directory to reduce I/O requirements. + On startup/shutdown, the file is copied to the top-level + <literal>$PGDATA</> directory so it is preserved between + restarts. + </para> + </listitem> - <para> - This allows the statistics file to be placed in a - <acronym>RAM</>-resident directory to reduce I/O requirements. - On startup/shutdown, the file is copied to the top-level - <literal>$PGDATA</> directory so it is preserved between - restarts. - </para> - </listitem> + </itemizedlist> - </itemizedlist> + </sect4> </sect3> @@ -983,111 +983,111 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title><command>TRUNCATE</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Support statement-level <literal>ON TRUNCATE</> triggers (Simon) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <command>TRUNCATE TABLE</> ... <literal>RESTART</>/<literal>CONTINUE IDENTITY</> clauses (Zoltan Boszormenyi) </para> - + <para> The start value of a sequence can be changed by <command>ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <command>TRUNCATE tab1, tab1</> to succeed (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add a separate <command>TRUNCATE</> permission (Robert Haas) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title><command>EXPLAIN</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>EXPLAIN VERBOSE</> show the output columns of a query (Tom) </para> - + <para> Previously <command>EXPLAIN VERBOSE</> output an internal representation of the query plan. (That behavior is now available via <varname>debug_print_plan</>.) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>EXPLAIN</> honor <varname>debug_print_plan</> (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <command>EXPLAIN</> on <command>CREATE TABLE AS</> (Peter) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title><literal>LIMIT</>/<literal>OFFSET</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <literal>LIMIT</> and <literal>OFFSET</> to use subselects as arguments (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Document that <literal>LIMIT NULL</> and <literal>OFFSET NULL</> have no effect (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <acronym>SQL</>-standards syntax for <literal>LIMIT</>/<literal>OFFSET</> capabilities (Peter) </para> - + <para> <literal>OFFSET num {ROW|ROWS} FETCH {FIRST|NEXT} [num] {ROW|ROWS} ONLY</>. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> - + <sect3> <title>Object Manipulation</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -1155,13 +1155,13 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title><command>ALTER</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Add <command>ALTER TYPE RENAME</> (Petr Jelinek) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <command>ALTER SEQUENCE ... RESTART</> (no parameter) to @@ -1169,20 +1169,20 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. bjm: compatibility problem? </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Modify the <command>ALTER TABLE</> syntax to allow all reasonable combinations for tables, indexes, sequences, and views (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> New syntax supported (these formerly required <command>ALTER TABLE</>) </para> - + <para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -1207,41 +1207,41 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> - + </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add support for the syntax <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DATA TYPE</> (Peter) </para> - + <para> This is <acronym>SQL</>-standard syntax for functionality that was already supported. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS</> rewrite the table to remove <type>OID</> values (Tom) </para> - + <para> Also, add <command>ALTER TABLE SET WITH OIDS</> to rewrite the table to add <type>OID</>s. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Database Manipulation</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Improve reporting of @@ -1250,19 +1250,19 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Make <varname>LC_COLLATE</> and <varname>LC_CTYPE</> database-level settings (Radek Strnad, Heikki) </para> - + <para> This makes collation similar to encoding, which was always configurable per database. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Improve checks that the database encoding, collation @@ -1270,18 +1270,18 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. (<varname>LC_CTYPE</>) match (Heikki) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <command>ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE</> to move a database to a new tablespace (Guillaume Lelarge, Bernd Helmle) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> <sect3> @@ -1290,98 +1290,98 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title>Indexes</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Dramatically improve the speed of building and accessing hash indexes (Tom Raney, Shreya Bhargava, Kenneth Marshall) </para> - + <para> This allows hash indexes to be sometimes faster than btree indexes. However, hash indexes are still not crash-safe. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have hash indexes store only the hashed value, not the full indexed columns (Xiao Meng) </para> - + <para> This greatly reduces the size of hash indexes for long indexed values, and improves performance. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Special xxx_pattern_ops <literal>LIKE</> indexes can now be used for simple equality comparisons (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Full Text Indexes</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Remove the requirement to use <literal>@@@</> when doing <acronym>GIN</> weighted lookups on full text indexes (Tom) </para> - + <para> The normal <literal>@@</> text search operator can be used instead. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add an optimizer selectivity function for <literal>@@</> text search operations (Jan Urbanski) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add partial match support for <acronym>GIN</> indexes (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow prefix matching in full text searches (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support multi-column <acronym>GIN</> indexes (Teodor Sigaev) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title><command>VACUUM</></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Allow relation forks to track free space (Heikki) </para> - + <para> This allows the recording of all free space discovered by vacuum in <filename>*.fsm</> files, rather than having to limit @@ -1390,30 +1390,30 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. settings have been removed. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> New visibility map file to track pages that do not require vacuum (Heikki) </para> - + <para> This allows <command>VACUUM</> to avoid sequentially scanning a table when only a portion of the table needs vacuuming. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Track explicit transaction snapshots (Alvaro) </para> - + <para> This improves space reuse by vacuum in the presence of long-running transactions. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <varname>vacuum_freeze_table_age</> parameter to control @@ -1421,53 +1421,53 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. do a full table scan to set frozen xids (Heikki) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add ability to specify autovacuum and <acronym>TOAST</> parameters in <command>CREATE TABLE</> (Alvaro, Euler Taveira de Oliveira) </para> - + <para> Autovacuum options used to be stored in a system table. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>--freeze</> option to <application>vacuumdb</> (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Other Utility Operations</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Add verbose option to the <command>CLUSTER</> command and <application>clusterdb</> (Jim Cox) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Decrease memory requirements for recording pending trigger events (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> - + <sect3> <title>Data Types</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -1515,64 +1515,64 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title>Temporal Data Types</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Reject year <literal>0 BC</> and years <literal>000</> and <literal>0000</> (Tom) </para> - + <para> Previously these were interpreted as <literal>1 BC</>; years <literal>0</> and <literal>00</> are assumed to be the year 2000. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Include <acronym>SGT</> (Singapore time) as a valid time zone abbreviation (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support the <acronym>IS0 8601</> <type>interval</> syntax (Tom, Kevin Grittner) </para> - + <para> For example, <literal>INTERVAL 'P1Y2M3DT4H5M6.7S'</> is now supported. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <type>INTERVAL</> precision to be specified after the last field, for <acronym>SQL</>-standards compliance (Tom) </para> - + <para> Formerly the precision had to be specified after the keyword <type>INTERVAL</> (this syntax is still supported). Data type definitions will now be output using the new format. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support <literal>infinite</> dates (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <varname>IntervalStyle</> parameter which controls how <type>INTERVAL</> values are output (Ron Mayer) </para> - + <para> Valid value are: <literal>postgres</>, <literal>postgres_verbose</>, <literal>sql_standard</>, <literal>iso_8601</>. This also @@ -1580,61 +1580,61 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. some fields have positive/negative designations. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Make <type>INTERVAL</> seconds rounding more consistent across output formats (Ron Mayer) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Arrays</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Have cast on <type>ARRAY</> apply to all elements, not just the array result (Brendan Jurd) </para> - + <para> This allows <literal>NULL</> <type>ARRAY</> entries as long as they are properly cast. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Make <acronym>SQL</>-syntax <type>ARRAY</> dimensions optional to match the <acronym>SQL</> standard (Peter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>array_ndims()</> to return the number of dimensions of an array (Robert Haas) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>array_length()</> to return the length of an array for the specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert Haas, Peter Eisentraut) </para> - + <para> Also add identically-functioning <acronym>SQL</>-standard function <function>cardinality()</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add new aggregate function <function>array_agg()</>, which @@ -1642,74 +1642,74 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. Jeff Davis, Peter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>unnest()</>, which converts an array to individual row values (Tom) </para> - + <para> This is the opposite of <function>array_agg()</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>array_fill()</> to create arrays initialized with a value (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>generate_subscripts()</> to generate array subscripts (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Generate proper error if a <type>SERIAL</> array is specified (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> <sect4> <title>Wide-Value Storage (<acronym>TOAST</>)</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Consider <acronym>TOAST</> compression on values as short as 32 bytes (previously 256 bytes) (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Require 25% of space savings before using <acronym>TOAST</> compression (previously 20%) (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Be more aggressive in storing <literal>EXTERNAL</> and <literal>EXTENDED</> column values in <acronym>TOAST</>(Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> - + <sect3> <title>Functions</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -1770,79 +1770,79 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title>Object Information Functions</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Implement <function>current_query()</> for use by functions that need to know the currently running query (Tomas Doran) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>pg_get_keywords()</> to return predefined parser keywords (Dave Page) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>pg_get_functiondef()</> to see a functions definition (Abhijit Menon-Sen) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Modify <function>pg_relation_size()</> to handle free space map (<filename>*.fsm</>) files (Heikki) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Modify <function>pg_relation_size()</> to use <literal>regclass</> (Heikki) </para> - + <para> <function>pg_relation_size(data_type_name)</> no longer works. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>boot_val</> and <literal>reset_val</> columns to <literal>pg_settings</> output (Greg Smith) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add support for <varname>CURRENT_CATALOG</>, <varname>CURRENT_SCHEMA</>, <varname>SET CATALOG</>, <varname>SET SCHEMA</> (Peter) </para> - + <para> These are <acronym>SQL</>-standard capabilities. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>pg_typeof()</> which returns the data type of any value (Brendan Jurd) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <function>version()</> return information about whether the server is a 32 or 64-bit binary (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Fix the behavior of information schema columns @@ -1850,13 +1850,13 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. be consistent (Peter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use <literal>OUT</> parameters (Jaime Casanova) </para> - + <para> This makes it possible to call these functions without specifying a column list: <function>pg_show_all_settings()</>, @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <function>pg_prepared_statement()</>, <function>pg_cursor()</> </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <function>pg_*_is_visible()</> and @@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. for invalid oids, rather than generate an error (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <function>has_column_privilege()</> and @@ -1880,87 +1880,87 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. Frost, Tom) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Function Creation</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Support variadic functions (functions with a variable number of arguments) (Pavel Stehule) </para> - + <para> Only trailing arguments can be optional, and they all must be of the same data type. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <literal>DEFAULT</> values for function arguments (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <command>CREATE FUNCTION ... RETURNS TABLE</> clause (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <acronym>SQL</>-language functions to return the output of an <command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</> <literal>RETURNING</> clause (Tom) </para> - + <para> Formerly only <command>SELECT</> was supported. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Support <literal>EXECUTE USING</> (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow looping over an open cursor using a <literal>FOR</> loop (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support <literal>RETURN QUERY EXECUTE</> (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Improve the <literal>RAISE</> command: (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> <itemizedlist> @@ -1988,41 +1988,41 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </itemizedlist> </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow specification of <varname>SQLSTATE</> numeric codes in <literal>EXCEPTION</> lists (Pavel Stehule) </para> - + <para> This is useful for handling custom <varname>SQLSTATE</> codes. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Support the <literal>CASE</> statement (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>FOUND</> and <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</> support for the <literal>RETURN QUERY</> statement (Pavel Stehule) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add message translation support (Alvaro) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> <sect3> @@ -2031,21 +2031,21 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title><link linkend="APP-PSQL"><application>psql</></link></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Remove startup banner; now just suggest <literal>help</> (Joshua Drake) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <literal>help</> show common backslash commands (Greg Sabino Mullane) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>\pset format wrapped</> mode to wrap output to the @@ -2053,95 +2053,95 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. is set (Bryce Nesbitt) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Use the pager for wide output (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Require a space between a backslash command and the first argument (Bernd Helmle) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Display access control rights on multiple lines (Brendan Jurd, Andreas Scherbaum) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Improve tab completion support for schema qualified and quoted identifiers (Greg Sabino Mullane) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow the normal range of boolean values in <command>\pset</>, rather than just <literal>on</> and <literal>off</> (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add optional <literal>on</>/<literal>off</> arguments for <command>\timing</> (David Fetter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>\l</> show access privileges (Andrew Gilligan) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>\l+</> show database sizes, if permissions allow (Andrew Gilligan) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add the <command>\ef</> command to edit function definitions (Abhijit Menon-Sen) </para> - + <para> <command>\ef</> without a function name creates an empty function template for editing. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title><link linkend="APP-PSQL"><application>psql</></link> \d*</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>\d</> show cases where this table is referenced as a foreign-key constraint (Kenneth D'Souza) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <command>\d</> show the value of sequence columns (Euler Taveira de Oliveira) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add column storage type and other relation options to the @@ -2149,64 +2149,64 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. Oliveira) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Show relation size in <command>\d+</> output (Dickson S. Guedes) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have all <command>\d*</> commands show system objects only if <literal>S</> is specified (Greg Sabino Mullane) </para> - + <para> <command>\dt</> already behaved this way. bjm: accuate? </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Make <command>\d</> and <command>\dt</> consistent in their display of system tables (Bruce) </para> - + <para> Previously, <literal>\d pg_class</> would show <literal>pg_class</> while <literal>\dt pg_class</> would not. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Show enumerated values in <command>\dT+</> (David Fetter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <command>\dC</> to accept wildcard patterns (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <command>\d*</> commands to work with versions of <productname>PostgreSQL</> back to 7.4 (Guillaume Lelarge) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> <sect4> <title><link linkend="APP-PGDUMP"><application>pg_dump</></link></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Add a <literal>--no-tablespaces</> option to @@ -2215,53 +2215,53 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. tablespace layouts (Gavin Roy) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Remove <literal>-i</>/<literal>--ignore-version</> option from <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_dumpall</> (Tom) </para> - + <para> Use of this option does not throw an error, but it has no effect. This option was removed because the version checks are considered necessary. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Disable <varname>statement_timeout</> during dump and restore (Joshua Drake) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <application>pg_dump</>/<application>pg_dumpall</> option <literal>--lock-wait-timeout</> (David Gould) </para> - + <para> This allows dumps to fail if unable to acquire a shared lock within the specified amount of time. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Reorder <application>pg_dump</> <literal>--data-only</> output to dump primary-key tables referenced by foreign keys before the foreign-key referencing tables (Tom) </para> - + <para> This allows data loads when foreign keys are already present. If circular references make this impossible, a <literal>NOTICE</> is issued. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <application>pg_dump</>, <application>pg_dumpall</>, and @@ -2269,41 +2269,41 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. László) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow <application>pg_restore</> of a custom format archive to use multiple concurrent connections to do the restore (Andrew) </para> - + <para> The number of concurrent connections is controlled by the option <literal>--jobs</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add new <application>pg_dump</> <literal>--binary-upgrade</> option for use by binary upgrade utilities (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Other Client Applications</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Fix <literal>pg_ctl restart</> to preserve command-line arguments (Bruce) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add <literal>-w</>/<literal>--no-password</> option that @@ -2311,21 +2311,21 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <literal>-W</>/<literal>--password</> option (Peter) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Remove <literal>-q</> (quiet) option for create* and drop* utility commands (Peter) </para> - + <para> These options have had no effect since <productname>PostgreSQL</> 8.3. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> </sect3> @@ -2336,65 +2336,65 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <sect4> <title><link linkend="libpq"><application>libpq</></link></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Allow the <type>OID</> to be specified when importing large objects using <function>lo_import_with_oid()</> (Tatsuo) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add events support (Andrew Chernow, Merlin Moncure) </para> - + <para> This adds the ability to register callbacks to handle private data for connection and result creation and destruction. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Improve error handling to allow the return of multiple error messages as multi-line error reports (Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Have <function>PQexecParams()</> return <varname>PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY</> for an empty query (Tom) </para> - + <para> It previously returned <varname>PGRES_COMMAND_OK</>. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Document how to avoid the overhead of <function>WSACleanup()</> on Windows (Andrew Chernow) </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> <sect4> <title><link linkend="libpq"><application>libpq</></link> <acronym>SSL</> (Secure Sockets Layer)</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Fix certificate validation for <acronym>SSL</> connections (Magnus) </para> - + <para> <application>libpq</> now verifies both the certificate and the name of the server by default when making <acronym>SSL</> @@ -2404,97 +2404,97 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. and certificate verification if required. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Allow the file locations for client certificates to be specified (Mark Woodward, Alvaro, Magnus) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add connection parameter <literal>sslverify</> to control the verification of the server's certificate (Magnus) </para> - + <para> The default is full verification. </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Properly unregister <application>OpenSSL</> callbacks when libpq is done with all connection (Bruce, Magnus, Russell Smith) </para> - + <para> This is required for applications that unload the libpq library so no invalid <application>OpenSSL</> callbacks remain. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title><link linkend="ecpg"><application>ecpg</></link></title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Add localization support for messages (Euler Taveira de Oliveira) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> ecpg parser is now automatically generated from the server parser (Michael) </para> - + <para> Previously a separate ecpg parser was maintained. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + <sect4> <title>Server Programming Interface (<acronym>SPI</>)</title> <itemizedlist> - + <listitem> <para> Add support for single-use plans with out-of-line parameters (Tom) </para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para> Add new <varname>SPI_OK_REWRITTEN</> return code to <function>SPI_execute()</> (Heikki) </para> - + <para> This is used when a command is rewritten to another type of command. </para> </listitem> - + </itemizedlist> - + </sect4> - + </sect3> - + <sect3> <title>Build Options</title> <itemizedlist> |