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><H1
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><A
NAME="RELEASE-8-2"
>E.20. Release 8.2</A
></H1
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Release date: </B
>2006-12-05</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN88288"
>E.20.1. Overview</A
></H2
><P
> This release adds many functionality and performance improvements that
were requested by users, including:
<P
></P
></P><UL
><LI
><P
> Query language enhancements including <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
RETURNING</TT
>, multirow <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>VALUES</TT
> lists, and
optional target-table alias in
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Index creation without blocking concurrent
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
>
operations
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Many query optimization improvements, including support for
reordering outer joins
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improved sorting performance with lower memory usage
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> More efficient locking with better concurrency
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> More efficient vacuuming
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Easier administration of warm standby servers
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> New <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FILLFACTOR</TT
> support for tables and indexes
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Monitoring, logging, and performance tuning additions
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> More control over creating and dropping objects
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Table inheritance relationships can be defined
for and removed from pre-existing tables
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY TO</TT
> can copy the output of an arbitrary
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
> statement
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Array improvements, including nulls in arrays
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Aggregate-function improvements, including multiple-input
aggregates and SQL:2003 statistical functions
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Many <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/</TT
> improvements
</P
></LI
></UL
><P>
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN88333"
>E.20.2. Migration to Version 8.2</A
></H2
><P
> A dump/restore using <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
> is
required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
release.
</P
><P
> Observe the following incompatibilities:
</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Set <A
HREF="runtime-config-compatible.html#GUC-ESCAPE-STRING-WARNING"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>escape_string_warning</TT
></A
>
to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
> by default (Bruce)
</P
><P
> This issues a warning if backslash escapes are used in
<A
HREF="sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS"
>non-escape (non-<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>E''</TT
>)
strings</A
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Change the <A
HREF="sql-expressions.html#SQL-SYNTAX-ROW-CONSTRUCTORS"
>row
constructor syntax</A
> (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ROW(...)</TT
>) so that
list elements <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>foo.*</TT
> will be expanded to a list
of their member fields, rather than creating a nested
row type field as formerly (Tom)
</P
><P
> The new behavior is substantially more useful since it
allows, for example, triggers to check for data changes
with <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IF row(new.*) IS DISTINCT FROM row(old.*)</TT
>.
The old behavior is still available by omitting <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>.*</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <A
HREF="functions-comparisons.html#ROW-WISE-COMPARISON"
>row comparisons</A
>
follow <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
> standard semantics and allow them
to be used in index scans (Tom)
</P
><P
> Previously, row = and <> comparisons followed the
standard but < <= > >= did not. A row comparison
can now be used as an index constraint for a multicolumn
index matching the row value.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <A
HREF="functions-comparison.html"
>row <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IS [<SPAN
CLASS="OPTIONAL"
>NOT</SPAN
>] NULL</TT
></A
>
tests follow <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
> standard semantics (Tom)
</P
><P
> The former behavior conformed to the standard for simple cases
with <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IS NULL</TT
>, but <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IS NOT NULL</TT
> would return
true if any row field was non-null, whereas the standard says it
should return true only when all fields are non-null.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <A
HREF="sql-set-constraints.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET
CONSTRAINT</TT
></A
> affect only one constraint (Kris Jurka)
</P
><P
> In previous releases, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET CONSTRAINT</TT
> modified
all constraints with a matching name. In this release,
the schema search path is used to modify only the first
matching constraint. A schema specification is also
supported. This more nearly conforms to the SQL standard.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>RULE</TT
> permission for tables, for security reasons
(Tom)
</P
><P
> As of this release, only a table's owner can create or modify
rules for the table. For backwards compatibility,
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>GRANT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REVOKE RULE</TT
> is still accepted,
but it does nothing.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Array comparison improvements (Tom)
</P
><P
> Now array dimensions are also compared.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Change <A
HREF="functions-array.html"
>array concatenation</A
>
to match documented behavior (Tom)
</P
><P
> This changes the previous behavior where concatenation
would modify the array lower bound.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make command-line options of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postmaster</SPAN
>
and <A
HREF="app-postgres.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postgres</SPAN
></A
>
identical (Peter)
</P
><P
> This allows the postmaster to pass arguments to each backend
without using <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-o</TT
>. Note that some options are now
only available as long-form options, because there were conflicting
single-letter options.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Deprecate use of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postmaster</SPAN
> symbolic link (Peter)
</P
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postmaster</SPAN
> and <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postgres</SPAN
>
commands now act identically, with the behavior determined
by command-line options. The <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postmaster</SPAN
> symbolic link is
kept for compatibility, but is not really needed.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Change <A
HREF="runtime-config-logging.html#GUC-LOG-DURATION"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>log_duration</TT
></A
>
to output even if the query is not output (Tom)
</P
><P
> In prior releases, <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>log_duration</TT
> only printed if
the query appeared earlier in the log.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <A
HREF="functions-formatting.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(time)</CODE
></A
>
and <A
HREF="functions-formatting.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(interval)</CODE
></A
>
treat <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>HH</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>HH12</TT
> as 12-hour
intervals
</P
><P
> Most applications should use <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>HH24</TT
> unless they
want a 12-hour display.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Zero unmasked bits in conversion from <A
HREF="datatype-net-types.html#DATATYPE-INET"
><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>INET</TT
></A
> to <A
HREF="datatype-net-types.html#DATATYPE-INET"
><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>CIDR</TT
></A
> (Tom)
</P
><P
> This ensures that the converted value is actually valid for
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>CIDR</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>australian_timezones</TT
> configuration variable
(Joachim Wieland)
</P
><P
> This variable has been superseded by a more general facility
for configuring timezone abbreviations.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve cost estimation for nested-loop index scans (Tom)
</P
><P
> This might eliminate the need to set unrealistically small
values of <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-RANDOM-PAGE-COST"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>random_page_cost</TT
></A
>.
If you have been using a very small <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>random_page_cost</TT
>,
please recheck your test cases.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Change behavior of <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pg_dump</TT
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-n</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-t</TT
> options. (Greg Sabino Mullane)
</P
><P
> See the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pg_dump</TT
> manual page for details.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Change <A
HREF="libpq.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>libpq</SPAN
></A
>
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQdsplen()</CODE
> to return a useful value (Martijn
van Oosterhout)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Declare <A
HREF="libpq.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>libpq</SPAN
></A
>
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQgetssl()</CODE
> as returning <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>void *</TT
>,
rather than <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SSL *</TT
> (Martijn van Oosterhout)
</P
><P
> This allows applications to use the function without including
the OpenSSL headers.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> C-language loadable modules must now include a
<A
HREF="xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PG_MODULE_MAGIC</TT
></A
>
macro call for version compatibility checking
(Martijn van Oosterhout)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> For security's sake, modules used by a PL/PerlU function are no
longer available to PL/Perl functions (Andrew)
</P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
> This also implies that data can no longer be shared between a PL/Perl
function and a PL/PerlU function.
Some Perl installations have not been compiled with the correct flags
to allow multiple interpreters to exist within a single process.
In this situation PL/Perl and PL/PerlU cannot both be used in a
single backend. The solution is to get a Perl installation which
supports multiple interpreters.
</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
></LI
><LI
><P
> In <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/xml2/</TT
>, rename <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>xml_valid()</CODE
> to
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>xml_is_well_formed()</CODE
> (Tom)
</P
><P
> <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>xml_valid()</CODE
> will remain for backward compatibility,
but its behavior will change to do schema checking in a future
release.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/ora2pg/</TT
>, now at <A
HREF="http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ora2pg"
TARGET="_top"
>http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ora2pg</A
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove contrib modules that have been migrated to PgFoundry:
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>adddepend</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dbase</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dbmirror</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>fulltextindex</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>mac</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>userlock</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove abandoned contrib modules:
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>mSQL-interface</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>tips</TT
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>QNX</ACRONYM
> and <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>BEOS</ACRONYM
> ports (Bruce)
</P
><P
> These ports no longer had active maintainers.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN88492"
>E.20.3. Changes</A
></H2
><P
> Below you will find a detailed account of the
changes between <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> 8.2 and
the previous major release.
</P
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88496"
>E.20.3.1. Performance Improvements</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow the planner to reorder <A
HREF="queries-table-expressions.html#QUERIES-JOIN"
>outer
joins</A
> in some circumstances (Tom)
</P
><P
> In previous releases, outer joins would always be evaluated in
the order written in the query. This change allows the
query optimizer to consider reordering outer joins, in cases where
it can determine that the join order can be changed without
altering the meaning of the query. This can make a
considerable performance difference for queries involving
multiple outer joins or mixed inner and outer joins.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve efficiency of <A
HREF="functions-comparisons.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IN</TT
>
(list-of-expressions)</A
> clauses (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve sorting speed and reduce memory usage (Simon, Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve subtransaction performance (Alvaro, Itagaki Takahiro,
Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FILLFACTOR</TT
> to <A
HREF="sql-createtable.html"
>table</A
> and <A
HREF="sql-createindex.html"
>index</A
> creation (ITAGAKI
Takahiro)
</P
><P
> This leaves extra free space in each table or index page,
allowing improved performance as the database grows. This
is particularly valuable to maintain clustering.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Increase default values for <A
HREF="runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-SHARED-BUFFERS"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>shared_buffers</TT
></A
>
and <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>max_fsm_pages</TT
>
(Andrew)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve locking performance by breaking the lock manager tables into
sections
(Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows locking to be more fine-grained, reducing
contention.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Reduce locking requirements of sequential scans (Qingqing
Zhou)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Reduce locking required for database creation and destruction
(Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve the optimizer's selectivity estimates for <A
HREF="functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LIKE</TT
></A
>, <A
HREF="functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ILIKE</TT
></A
>, and
<A
HREF="functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP"
>regular expression</A
>
operations (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve planning of joins to <A
HREF="ddl-inherit.html"
>inherited
tables</A
> and <A
HREF="queries-union.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UNION
ALL</TT
></A
> views (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-CONSTRAINT-EXCLUSION"
>constraint
exclusion</A
> to be applied to <A
HREF="ddl-inherit.html"
>inherited</A
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
> queries (Tom)
</P
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
> already honored constraint exclusion.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve planning of constant <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>WHERE</TT
> clauses, such as
a condition that depends only on variables inherited from an
outer query level (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Protocol-level unnamed prepared statements are re-planned
for each set of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>BIND</TT
> values (Tom)
</P
><P
> This improves performance because the exact parameter values
can be used in the plan.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Speed up vacuuming of B-Tree indexes (Heikki Linnakangas,
Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Avoid extra scan of tables without indexes during <A
HREF="sql-vacuum.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>VACUUM</TT
></A
> (Greg Stark)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve multicolumn <A
HREF="gist.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GiST</ACRONYM
></A
>
indexing (Oleg, Teodor)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove dead index entries before B-Tree page split (Junji
Teramoto)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88568"
>E.20.3.2. Server Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow a forced switch to a new transaction log file (Simon, Tom)
</P
><P
> This is valuable for keeping warm standby slave servers
in sync with the master. Transaction log file switching now also happens
automatically during <A
HREF="functions-admin.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pg_stop_backup()</CODE
></A
>.
This ensures that all
transaction log files needed for recovery can be archived immediately.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
> informational functions (Simon)
</P
><P
> Add functions for interrogating the current transaction log insertion
point and determining <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
> filenames from the
hex <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
> locations displayed by <A
HREF="functions-admin.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pg_stop_backup()</CODE
></A
>
and related functions.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve recovery from a crash during <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
> replay (Simon)
</P
><P
> The server now does periodic checkpoints during <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
>
recovery, so if there is a crash, future <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
>
recovery is shortened. This also eliminates the need for
warm standby servers to replay the entire log since the
base backup if they crash.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve reliability of long-term <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
> replay
(Heikki, Simon, Tom)
</P
><P
> Formerly, trying to roll forward through more than 2 billion
transactions would not work due to XID wraparound. This meant
warm standby servers had to be reloaded
from fresh base backups periodically.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-ARCHIVE-TIMEOUT"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>archive_timeout</TT
></A
>
to force transaction log file switches at a given interval (Simon)
</P
><P
> This enforces a maximum replication delay for warm standby servers.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add native <A
HREF="auth-methods.html#AUTH-LDAP"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>LDAP</ACRONYM
></A
>
authentication (Magnus Hagander)
</P
><P
> This is particularly useful for platforms that do not
support <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PAM</ACRONYM
>, such as Windows.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-grant.html#SQL-GRANT-DESCRIPTION-OBJECTS"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>GRANT
CONNECT ON DATABASE</TT
></A
> (Gevik Babakhani)
</P
><P
> This gives SQL-level control over database access. It works as
an additional filter on top of the existing
<A
HREF="auth-pg-hba-conf.html"
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pg_hba.conf</TT
></A
>
controls.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add support for <A
HREF="ssl-tcp.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SSL</ACRONYM
>
Certificate Revocation List</A
> (<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CRL</ACRONYM
>) files
(Libor Hohoš)
</P
><P
> The server and <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>libpq</SPAN
> both recognize <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CRL</ACRONYM
>
files now.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <A
HREF="gist.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GiST</ACRONYM
></A
> indexes are
now clusterable (Teodor)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove routine autovacuum server log entries (Bruce)
</P
><P
> <A
HREF="monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_stat_activity</TT
></A
>
now shows autovacuum activity.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Track maximum XID age within individual tables, instead of whole databases (Alvaro)
</P
><P
> This reduces the overhead involved in preventing transaction
ID wraparound, by avoiding unnecessary VACUUMs.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add last vacuum and analyze timestamp columns to the stats
collector (Larry Rosenman)
</P
><P
> These values now appear in the <A
HREF="monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_stat_*_tables</TT
></A
>
system views.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve performance of statistics monitoring, especially
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>stats_command_string</TT
>
(Tom, Bruce)
</P
><P
> This release enables <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>stats_command_string</TT
> by
default, now that its overhead is minimal. This means
<A
HREF="monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_stat_activity</TT
></A
>
will now show all active queries by default.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>waiting</TT
> column to <A
HREF="monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_stat_activity</TT
></A
>
(Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_stat_activity</TT
> to show all the
information included in the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>ps</SPAN
> display.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add configuration parameter <A
HREF="runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-UPDATE-PROCESS-TITLE"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>update_process_title</TT
></A
>
to control whether the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>ps</SPAN
> display is updated
for every command (Bruce)
</P
><P
> On platforms where it is expensive to update the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>ps</SPAN
>
display, it might be worthwhile to turn this off and rely solely on
<TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_stat_activity</TT
> for status information.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow units to be specified in configuration settings
(Peter)
</P
><P
> For example, you can now set <A
HREF="runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-SHARED-BUFFERS"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>shared_buffers</TT
></A
>
to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>32MB</TT
> rather than mentally converting sizes.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add support for <A
HREF="config-setting.html"
>include
directives</A
> in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>postgresql.conf</TT
> (Joachim
Wieland)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve logging of protocol-level prepare/bind/execute
messages (Bruce, Tom)
</P
><P
> Such logging now shows statement names, bind parameter
values, and the text of the query being executed. Also,
the query text is properly included in logged error messages
when enabled by <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>log_min_error_statement</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Prevent <A
HREF="runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-MAX-STACK-DEPTH"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>max_stack_depth</TT
></A
>
from being set to unsafe values
</P
><P
> On platforms where we can determine the actual kernel stack depth
limit (which is most), make sure that the initial default value of
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>max_stack_depth</TT
> is safe, and reject attempts to set it
to unsafely large values.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Enable highlighting of error location in query in more
cases (Tom)
</P
><P
> The server is now able to report a specific error location for
some semantic errors (such as unrecognized column name), rather
than just for basic syntax errors as before.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"failed to re-find parent key"</SPAN
> errors in
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>VACUUM</TT
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Clean out <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pg_internal.init</TT
> cache files during server
restart (Simon)
</P
><P
> This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale
data after PITR recovery.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
gigabyte boundary by <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>VACUUM</TT
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Each backend process is now its own process group leader (Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows query cancel to abort subprocesses invoked from a
backend or archive/recovery process.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88701"
>E.20.3.3. Query Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-insert.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
></A
>/<A
HREF="sql-update.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
></A
>/<A
HREF="sql-delete.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
></A
>
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>RETURNING</TT
> (Jonah Harris, Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows these commands to return values, such as the
computed serial key for a new row. In the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>
case, values from the updated version of the row are returned.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add support for multiple-row <A
HREF="queries-values.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>VALUES</TT
></A
> clauses,
per SQL standard (Joe, Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
> to insert multiple rows of
constants, or queries to generate result sets using constants.
For example, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INSERT ... VALUES (...), (...),
....</TT
>, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SELECT * FROM (VALUES (...), (...),
....) AS alias(f1, ...)</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-update.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
></A
>
and <A
HREF="sql-delete.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
></A
>
to use an alias for the target table (Atsushi Ogawa)
</P
><P
> The SQL standard does not permit an alias in these commands, but
many database systems allow one anyway for notational convenience.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-update.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
></A
>
to set multiple columns with a list of values (Susanne
Ebrecht)
</P
><P
> This is basically a short-hand for assigning the columns
and values in pairs. The syntax is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UPDATE tab
SET (<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>column</I
></TT
>, ...) = (<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>val</I
></TT
>, ...)</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make row comparisons work per standard (Tom)
</P
><P
> The forms <, <=, >, >= now compare rows lexicographically,
that is, compare the first elements, if equal compare the second
elements, and so on. Formerly they expanded to an AND condition
across all the elements, which was neither standard nor very useful.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-truncate.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CASCADE</TT
></A
>
option to <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>TRUNCATE</TT
> (Joachim Wieland)
</P
><P
> This causes <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>TRUNCATE</TT
> to automatically include all tables
that reference the specified table(s) via foreign keys. While
convenient, this is a dangerous tool — use with caution!
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Support <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FOR UPDATE</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FOR SHARE</TT
>
in the same <A
HREF="sql-insert.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SELECT</TT
></A
>
command (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="functions-comparisons.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IS NOT
DISTINCT FROM</TT
></A
> (Pavel Stehule)
</P
><P
> This operator is similar to equality (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>=</TT
>), but
evaluates to true when both left and right operands are
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>NULL</TT
>, and to false when just one is, rather than
yielding <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>NULL</TT
> in these cases.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve the length output used by <A
HREF="queries-union.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UNION</TT
></A
>/<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INTERSECT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>EXCEPT</TT
>
(Tom)
</P
><P
> When all corresponding columns are of the same defined length, that
length is used for the result, rather than a generic length.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ILIKE</TT
></A
>
to work for multi-byte encodings (Tom)
</P
><P
> Internally, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ILIKE</TT
> now calls <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>lower()</CODE
>
and then uses <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LIKE</TT
>. Locale-specific regular
expression patterns still do not work in these encodings.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Enable <A
HREF="runtime-config-compatible.html#GUC-STANDARD-CONFORMING-STRINGS"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>standard_conforming_strings</TT
></A
>
to be turned <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
> (Kevin Grittner)
</P
><P
> This allows backslash escaping in strings to be disabled,
making <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> more
standards-compliant. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>off</TT
> for backwards
compatibility, but future releases will default this to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Do not flatten subqueries that contain <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>volatile</TT
>
functions in their target lists (Jaime Casanova)
</P
><P
> This prevents surprising behavior due to multiple evaluation
of a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>volatile</TT
> function (such as <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>random()</CODE
>
or <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>nextval()</CODE
>). It might cause performance
degradation in the presence of functions that are unnecessarily
marked as <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>volatile</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add system views <A
HREF="view-pg-prepared-statements.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_prepared_statements</TT
></A
>
and <A
HREF="view-pg-cursors.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_cursors</TT
></A
>
to show prepared statements and open cursors (Joachim Wieland, Neil)
</P
><P
> These are very useful in pooled connection setups.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Support portal parameters in <A
HREF="sql-explain.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>EXPLAIN</TT
></A
> and <A
HREF="sql-execute.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>EXECUTE</TT
></A
> (Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows, for example, <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>JDBC</ACRONYM
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>?</TT
> parameters to
work in these commands.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> If <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
>-level <A
HREF="sql-prepare.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>PREPARE</TT
></A
> parameters
are unspecified, infer their types from the content of the
query (Neil)
</P
><P
> Protocol-level <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>PREPARE</TT
> already did this.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LIMIT</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>OFFSET</TT
> to exceed
two billion (Dhanaraj M)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88821"
>E.20.3.4. Object Manipulation Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TABLESPACE</TT
> clause to <A
HREF="sql-createtableas.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE TABLE AS</TT
></A
>
(Neil)
</P
><P
> This allows a tablespace to be specified for the new table.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ON COMMIT</TT
> clause to <A
HREF="sql-createtableas.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE TABLE AS</TT
></A
>
(Neil)
</P
><P
> This allows temporary tables to be truncated or dropped on
transaction commit. The default behavior is for the table
to remain until the session ends.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS</TT
> to <A
HREF="sql-createtable.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE TABLE LIKE</TT
></A
>
(Greg Stark)
</P
><P
> This allows easy copying of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CHECK</TT
> constraints to a new
table.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow the creation of placeholder (shell) <A
HREF="sql-createtype.html"
>types</A
> (Martijn van Oosterhout)
</P
><P
> A shell type declaration creates a type name, without specifying
any of the details of the type. Making a shell type is useful
because it allows cleaner declaration of the type's input/output
functions, which must exist before the type can be defined <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"for
real"</SPAN
>. The syntax is <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE TYPE <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>typename</I
></TT
></TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <A
HREF="sql-createaggregate.html"
>Aggregate functions</A
>
now support multiple input parameters (Sergey Koposov, Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add new aggregate creation <A
HREF="sql-createaggregate.html"
>syntax</A
> (Tom)
</P
><P
> The new syntax is <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE AGGREGATE
<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>aggname</I
></TT
> (<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>input_type</I
></TT
>)
(<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>parameter_list</I
></TT
>)</TT
>. This more
naturally supports the new multi-parameter aggregate
functionality. The previous syntax is still supported.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-alterrole.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER ROLE PASSWORD NULL</TT
></A
>
to remove a previously set role password (Peter)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP</TT
> object <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IF EXISTS</TT
> for many
object types (Andrew)
</P
><P
> This allows <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP</TT
> operations on non-existent
objects without generating an error.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-drop-owned.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DROP OWNED</TT
></A
>
to drop all objects owned by a role (Alvaro)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-reassign-owned.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>REASSIGN
OWNED</TT
></A
> to reassign ownership of all objects owned
by a role (Alvaro)
</P
><P
> This, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DROP OWNED</TT
> above, facilitate dropping
roles.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-grant.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>GRANT ON SEQUENCE</TT
></A
>
syntax (Bruce)
</P
><P
> This was added for setting sequence-specific permissions.
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>GRANT ON TABLE</TT
> for sequences is still supported
for backward compatibility.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-grant.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>USAGE</TT
></A
>
permission for sequences that allows only <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>currval()</CODE
>
and <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>nextval()</CODE
>, not <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>setval()</CODE
>
(Bruce)
</P
><P
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>USAGE</TT
> permission allows more fine-grained
control over sequence access. Granting <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>USAGE</TT
>
allows users to increment
a sequence, but prevents them from setting the sequence to
an arbitrary value using <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>setval()</CODE
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-altertable.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ALTER TABLE
[ NO ] INHERIT</TT
></A
> (Greg Stark)
</P
><P
> This allows inheritance to be adjusted dynamically, rather than
just at table creation and destruction. This is very valuable
when using inheritance to implement table partitioning.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-comment.html"
>comments</A
> on global
objects to be stored globally (Kris Jurka)
</P
><P
> Previously, comments attached to databases were stored in individual
databases, making them ineffective, and there was no provision
at all for comments on roles or tablespaces. This change adds a new
shared catalog <A
HREF="catalog-pg-shdescription.html"
><TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_shdescription</TT
></A
>
and stores comments on databases, roles, and tablespaces therein.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88909"
>E.20.3.5. Utility Command Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add option to allow indexes to be created without blocking
concurrent writes to the table (Greg Stark, Tom)
</P
><P
> The new syntax is <A
HREF="sql-createindex.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY</TT
></A
>. The default behavior is
still to block table modification while a index is being
created.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Provide <A
HREF="functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADVISORY-LOCKS"
>advisory
locking</A
> functionality (Abhijit Menon-Sen, Tom)
</P
><P
> This is a new locking API designed to replace what used to be
in /contrib/userlock. The userlock code is now on pgfoundry.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-copy.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY</TT
></A
> to
dump a <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
> query (Zoltan Boszormenyi, Karel
Zak)
</P
><P
> This allows <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY</TT
> to dump arbitrary <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
>
queries. The syntax is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>COPY (SELECT ...) TO</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make the <A
HREF="sql-copy.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY</TT
></A
>
command return a command tag that includes the number of
rows copied (Volkan YAZICI)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-vacuum.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>VACUUM</TT
></A
>
to expire rows without being affected by other concurrent
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>VACUUM</TT
> operations (Hannu Krossing, Alvaro, Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <A
HREF="app-initdb.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>initdb</SPAN
></A
>
detect the operating system locale and set the default
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>DateStyle</TT
> accordingly (Peter)
</P
><P
> This makes it more likely that the installed
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>postgresql.conf</TT
> <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>DateStyle</TT
> value will
be as desired.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Reduce number of progress messages displayed by <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>initdb</SPAN
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN88950"
>E.20.3.6. Date/Time Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow full timezone names in <A
HREF="datatype-datetime.html"
><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>timestamp</TT
></A
> input values
(Joachim Wieland)
</P
><P
> For example, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'2006-05-24 21:11
America/New_York'::timestamptz</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Support configurable timezone abbreviations (Joachim Wieland)
</P
><P
> A desired set of timezone abbreviations can be chosen via the
configuration parameter <A
HREF="runtime-config-client.html#GUC-TIMEZONE-ABBREVIATIONS"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>timezone_abbreviations</TT
></A
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="view-pg-timezone-abbrevs.html"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>pg_timezone_abbrevs</TT
></A
>
and <A
HREF="view-pg-timezone-names.html"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>pg_timezone_names</TT
></A
>
views to show supported timezones (Magnus Hagander)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TABLE"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>clock_timestamp()</CODE
></A
>,
<A
HREF="functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TABLE"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>statement_timestamp()</CODE
></A
>,
and <A
HREF="functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TABLE"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>transaction_timestamp()</CODE
></A
>
(Bruce)
</P
><P
> <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>clock_timestamp()</CODE
> is the current wall-clock time,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>statement_timestamp()</CODE
> is the time the current
statement arrived at the server, and
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>transaction_timestamp()</CODE
> is an alias for
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>now()</CODE
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="functions-formatting.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char()</CODE
></A
>
to print localized month and day names (Euler Taveira de
Oliveira)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="functions-formatting.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(time)</CODE
></A
>
and <A
HREF="functions-formatting.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(interval)</CODE
></A
>
to output <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>AM</ACRONYM
>/<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PM</ACRONYM
> specifications
(Bruce)
</P
><P
> Intervals and times are treated as 24-hour periods, e.g.
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>25 hours</TT
> is considered <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>AM</ACRONYM
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add new function <A
HREF="functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TABLE"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>justify_interval()</CODE
></A
>
to adjust interval units (Mark Dilger)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow timezone offsets up to 14:59 away from GMT
</P
><P
> Kiribati uses GMT+14, so we'd better accept that.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Interval computation improvements (Michael Glaesemann, Bruce)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89007"
>E.20.3.7. Other Data Type and Function Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow arrays to contain <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>NULL</TT
> elements (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow assignment to array elements not contiguous with the existing
entries (Tom)
</P
><P
> The intervening array positions will be filled with nulls.
This is per SQL standard.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> New built-in <A
HREF="functions-array.html"
>operators</A
>
for array-subset comparisons (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>@></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
><@</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>&&</TT
>) (Teodor, Tom)
</P
><P
> These operators can be indexed for many data types using
<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GiST</ACRONYM
> or <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GIN</ACRONYM
> indexes.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add convenient arithmetic <A
HREF="functions-net.html#CIDR-INET-OPERATORS-TABLE"
>operations</A
> on
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>INET</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>CIDR</TT
> values (Stephen R. van den
Berg)
</P
><P
> The new operators are <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>&</TT
> (and), <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>|</TT
>
(or), <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>~</TT
> (not), <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>inet</TT
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>+</TT
> <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>int8</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>inet</TT
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-</TT
> <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>int8</TT
>, and
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>inet</TT
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-</TT
> <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>inet</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add new <A
HREF="functions-aggregate.html#FUNCTIONS-AGGREGATE-STATISTICS-TABLE"
>aggregate functions</A
>
from SQL:2003 (Neil)
</P
><P
> The new functions are <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>var_pop()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>var_samp()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>stddev_pop()</CODE
>, and
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>stddev_samp()</CODE
>. <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>var_samp()</CODE
> and
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>stddev_samp()</CODE
> are merely renamings of the
existing aggregates <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>variance()</CODE
> and
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>stddev()</CODE
>. The latter names remain available
for backward compatibility.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add SQL:2003 statistical <A
HREF="functions-aggregate.html#FUNCTIONS-AGGREGATE-STATISTICS-TABLE"
>aggregates</A
>
(Sergey Koposov)
</P
><P
> New functions: <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_intercept()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_slope()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_r2()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>corr()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>covar_samp()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>covar_pop()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_avgx()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_avgy()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_sxy()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_sxx()</CODE
>, <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_syy()</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>regr_count()</CODE
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-createdomain.html"
>domains</A
> to be
based on other domains (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Properly enforce domain <A
HREF="ddl-constraints.html"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CHECK</TT
></A
> constraints
everywhere (Neil, Tom)
</P
><P
> For example, the result of a user-defined function that is
declared to return a domain type is now checked against the
domain's constraints. This closes a significant hole in the domain
implementation.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix problems with dumping renamed <A
HREF="datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL"
><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>SERIAL</TT
></A
> columns
(Tom)
</P
><P
> The fix is to dump a <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>SERIAL</TT
> column by explicitly
specifying its <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
> and sequence elements,
and reconstructing the <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>SERIAL</TT
> column on reload
using a new <A
HREF="sql-altersequence.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER
SEQUENCE OWNED BY</TT
></A
> command. This also allows
dropping a <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>SERIAL</TT
> column specification.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add a server-side sleep function <A
HREF="functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-DELAY"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pg_sleep()</CODE
></A
>
(Joachim Wieland)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add all comparison operators for the <A
HREF="datatype-oid.html"
><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>tid</TT
></A
> (tuple id) data
type (Mark Kirkwood, Greg Stark, Tom)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89098"
>E.20.3.8. PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TG_table_name</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TG_table_schema</TT
> to
trigger parameters (Andrew)
</P
><P
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TG_relname</TT
> is now deprecated. Comparable
changes have been made in the trigger parameters for the other
PLs as well.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FOR</TT
> statements to return values to scalars
as well as records and row types (Pavel Stehule)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>BY</TT
> clause to the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FOR</TT
> loop,
to control the iteration increment (Jaime Casanova)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>STRICT</TT
> to <A
HREF="plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-SQL-ONEROW"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT
INTO</TT
></A
> (Matt Miller)
</P
><P
> <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>STRICT</TT
> mode throws an exception if more or less
than one row is returned by the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
>, for
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Oracle PL/SQL</SPAN
> compatibility.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89123"
>E.20.3.9. PL/Perl Server-Side Language Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>table_name</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>table_schema</TT
> to
trigger parameters (Adam Sjøgren)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add prepared queries (Dmitry Karasik)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>$_TD</TT
> trigger data a global variable (Andrew)
</P
><P
> Previously, it was lexical, which caused unexpected sharing
violations.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Run PL/Perl and PL/PerlU in separate interpreters, for security
reasons (Andrew)
</P
><P
> In consequence, they can no longer share data nor loaded modules.
Also, if Perl has not been compiled with the requisite flags to
allow multiple interpreters, only one of these languages can be used
in any given backend process.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89139"
>E.20.3.10. PL/Python Server-Side Language Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Named parameters are passed as ordinary variables, as well as in the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>args[]</TT
> array (Sven Suursoho)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>table_name</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>table_schema</TT
> to
trigger parameters (Andrew)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow returning of composite types and result sets (Sven Suursoho)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Return result-set as <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>list</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>iterator</TT
>,
or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>generator </TT
>(Sven Suursoho)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow functions to return <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>void</TT
> (Neil)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Python 2.5 is now supported (Tom)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89161"
>E.20.3.11. <A
HREF="app-psql.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>psql</SPAN
></A
> Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add new command <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>\password</TT
> for changing role
password with client-side password encryption (Peter)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>\c</TT
> to connect to a new host and port
number (David, Volkan YAZICI)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add tablespace display to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>\l+</TT
> (Philip Yarra)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>\df</TT
> slash command to include the argument
names and modes (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>OUT</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INOUT</TT
>) of
the function (David Fetter)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Support binary <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY</TT
> (Andreas Pflug)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add option to run the entire session in a single transaction
(Simon)
</P
><P
> Use option <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-1</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--single-transaction</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Support for automatically retrieving <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
>
results in batches using a cursor (Chris Mair)
</P
><P
> This is enabled using <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>\set FETCH_COUNT
<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>n</I
></TT
></TT
>. This
feature allows large result sets to be retrieved in
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>psql</SPAN
> without attempting to buffer the entire
result set in memory.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make multi-line values align in the proper column
(Martijn van Oosterhout)
</P
><P
> Field values containing newlines are now displayed in a more
readable fashion.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Save multi-line statements as a single entry, rather than
one line at a time (Sergey E. Koposov)
</P
><P
> This makes up-arrow recall of queries easier. (This is
not available on Windows, because that platform uses the native
command-line editing present in the operating system.)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make the line counter 64-bit so it can handle files with more
than two billion lines (David Fetter)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Report both the returned data and the command status tag
for <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE
RETURNING</TT
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89208"
>E.20.3.12. <A
HREF="app-pgdump.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
></A
> Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow complex selection of objects to be included or excluded
by <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
> (Greg Sabino Mullane)
</P
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
> now supports multiple <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-n</TT
>
(schema) and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-t</TT
> (table) options, and adds
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-N</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-T</TT
> options to exclude objects.
Also, the arguments of these switches can now be wild-card expressions
rather than single object names, for example
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-t 'foo*'</TT
>, and a schema can be part of
a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-t</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-T</TT
> switch, for example
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-t schema1.table1</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="app-pgrestore.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_restore</SPAN
></A
>
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--no-data-for-failed-tables</TT
> option to suppress
loading data if table creation failed (i.e., the table already
exists) (Martin Pitt)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="app-pgrestore.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_restore</SPAN
></A
>
option to run the entire session in a single transaction
(Simon)
</P
><P
> Use option <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>-1</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--single-transaction</TT
>.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89238"
>E.20.3.13. <A
HREF="libpq.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>libpq</SPAN
></A
> Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="libpq-misc.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQencryptPassword()</CODE
></A
>
to encrypt passwords (Tom)
</P
><P
> This allows passwords to be sent pre-encrypted for commands
like <A
HREF="sql-alterrole.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER ROLE ...
PASSWORD</TT
></A
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add function <A
HREF="libpq-threading.html"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQisthreadsafe()</CODE
></A
>
(Bruce)
</P
><P
> This allows applications to query the thread-safety status
of the library.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-MAIN"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQdescribePrepared()</CODE
></A
>,
<A
HREF="libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-MAIN"
><CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQdescribePortal()</CODE
></A
>,
and related functions to return information about previously
prepared statements and open cursors (Volkan YAZICI)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="libpq-ldap.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>LDAP</ACRONYM
></A
> lookups
from <A
HREF="libpq-pgservice.html"
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pg_service.conf</TT
></A
>
(Laurenz Albe)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow a hostname in <A
HREF="libpq-pgpass.html"
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.pgpass</TT
></A
>
to match the default socket directory (Bruce)
</P
><P
> A blank hostname continues to match any Unix-socket connection,
but this addition allows entries that are specific to one of
several postmasters on the machine.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89272"
>E.20.3.14. <A
HREF="ecpg.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>ecpg</SPAN
></A
> Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow <A
HREF="sql-show.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SHOW</TT
></A
> to
put its result into a variable (Joachim Wieland)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="sql-copy.html"
><TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY TO STDOUT</TT
></A
>
(Joachim Wieland)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add regression tests (Joachim Wieland, Michael)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Major source code cleanups (Joachim Wieland, Michael)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89289"
>E.20.3.15. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Windows</SPAN
> Port</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Allow <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>MSVC</ACRONYM
> to compile the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
server (Magnus, Hiroshi Saito)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>MSVC</ACRONYM
> support for utility commands and <A
HREF="app-pgdump.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
></A
> (Hiroshi
Saito)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add support for Windows code pages <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1253</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1254</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1255</TT
>, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1257</TT
>
(Kris Jurka)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Drop privileges on startup, so that the server can be started from
an administrative account (Magnus)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Stability fixes (Qingqing Zhou, Magnus)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add native semaphore implementation (Qingqing Zhou)
</P
><P
> The previous code mimicked SysV semaphores.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89315"
>E.20.3.16. Source Code Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="gin.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GIN</ACRONYM
></A
> (Generalized
Inverted iNdex) index access method (Teodor, Oleg)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove R-tree indexing (Tom)
</P
><P
> Rtree has been re-implemented using <A
HREF="gist.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GiST</ACRONYM
></A
>. Among other
differences, this means that rtree indexes now have support
for crash recovery via write-ahead logging (WAL).
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Reduce libraries needlessly linked into the backend (Martijn
van Oosterhout, Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add a configure flag to allow libedit to be preferred over
<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GNU</ACRONYM
> readline (Bruce)
</P
><P
> Use configure <A
HREF="install-procedure.html#CONFIGURE"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--with-libedit-preferred</TT
></A
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow installation into directories containing spaces
(Peter)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve ability to relocate installation directories (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add support for <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Solaris x86_64</SPAN
> using the
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Solaris</SPAN
> compiler (Pierre Girard, Theo
Schlossnagle, Bruce)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>DTrace</SPAN
> support (Robert Lor)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PG_VERSION_NUM</TT
> for use by third-party
applications wanting to test the backend version in C using >
and < comparisons (Bruce)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>XLOG_BLCKSZ</TT
> as independent from <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>BLCKSZ</TT
>
(Mark Wong)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LWLOCK_STATS</TT
> define to report locking
activity (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Emit warnings for unknown <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>configure</SPAN
> options
(Martijn van Oosterhout)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add server support for <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"plugin"</SPAN
> libraries
that can be used for add-on tasks such as debugging and performance
measurement (Korry Douglas)
</P
><P
> This consists of two features: a table of <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"rendezvous
variables"</SPAN
> that allows separately-loaded shared libraries to
communicate, and a new configuration parameter <A
HREF="runtime-config-client.html#GUC-LOCAL-PRELOAD-LIBRARIES"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>local_preload_libraries</TT
></A
>
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without
explicit cooperation from the client application. This allows
external add-ons to implement features such as a PL/PgSQL debugger.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Rename existing configuration parameter
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>preload_libraries</TT
> to <A
HREF="runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-SHARED-PRELOAD-LIBRARIES"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>shared_preload_libraries</TT
></A
>
(Tom)
</P
><P
> This was done for clarity in comparison to
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>local_preload_libraries</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add new configuration parameter <A
HREF="runtime-config-preset.html#GUC-SERVER-VERSION-NUM"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>server_version_num</TT
></A
>
(Greg Sabino Mullane)
</P
><P
> This is like <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>server_version</TT
>, but is an
integer, e.g. <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>80200</TT
>. This allows applications to
make version checks more easily.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add a configuration parameter <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-SEQ-PAGE-COST"
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>seq_page_cost</TT
></A
>
(Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Re-implement the <A
HREF="regress.html"
>regression test</A
> script as a C program
(Magnus, Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Allow loadable modules to allocate shared memory and
lightweight locks (Marc Munro)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add automatic initialization and finalization of dynamically
loaded libraries (Ralf Engelschall, Tom)
</P
><P
> New <A
HREF="xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD"
>functions</A
>
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>_PG_init()</CODE
> and <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>_PG_fini()</CODE
> are
called if the library defines such symbols. Hence we no
longer need to specify an initialization function in
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>shared_preload_libraries</TT
>; we can assume that
the library used the <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>_PG_init()</CODE
> convention
instead.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add <A
HREF="xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD"
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PG_MODULE_MAGIC</TT
></A
>
header block to all shared object files (Martijn van
Oosterhout)
</P
><P
> The magic block prevents version mismatches between loadable object
files and servers.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add shared library support for AIX (Laurenz Albe)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> New <A
HREF="datatype-xml.html"
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>XML</ACRONYM
></A
>
documentation section (Bruce)
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN89408"
>E.20.3.17. Contrib Changes</A
></H3
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Major tsearch2 improvements (Oleg, Teodor)
</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> multibyte encoding support, including <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UTF8</ACRONYM
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> query rewriting support
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> improved ranking functions
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> thesaurus dictionary support
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Ispell dictionaries now recognize <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>MySpell</SPAN
>
format, used by <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>OpenOffice</SPAN
>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GIN</ACRONYM
> support
</P
></LI
></UL
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add adminpack module containing <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Pgadmin</SPAN
> administration
functions (Dave)
</P
><P
> These functions provide additional file system access
routines not present in the default <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
server.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add sslinfo module (Victor Wagner)
</P
><P
> Reports information about the current connection's <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SSL</ACRONYM
>
certificate.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add pgrowlocks module (Tatsuo)
</P
><P
> This shows row locking information for a specified table.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add hstore module (Oleg, Teodor)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add isn module, replacing isbn_issn (Jeremy Kronuz)
</P
><P
> This new implementation supports <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>EAN13</ACRONYM
>, <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UPC</ACRONYM
>,
<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ISBN</ACRONYM
> (books), <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ISMN</ACRONYM
> (music), and
<ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ISSN</ACRONYM
> (serials).
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add index information functions to pgstattuple (ITAGAKI Takahiro,
Satoshi Nagayasu)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add pg_freespacemap module to display free space map information
(Mark Kirkwood)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> pgcrypto now has all planned functionality (Marko Kreen)
</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
> Include iMath library in pgcrypto to have the public-key encryption
functions always available.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add SHA224 algorithm that was missing in OpenBSD code.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Activate builtin code for SHA224/256/384/512 hashes on older
OpenSSL to have those algorithms always available.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> New function gen_random_bytes() that returns cryptographically strong
randomness. Useful for generating encryption keys.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Remove digest_exists(), hmac_exists() and cipher_exists() functions.
</P
></LI
></UL
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improvements to cube module (Joshua Reich)
</P
><P
> New functions are <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>cube(float[])</CODE
>,
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>cube(float[], float[])</CODE
>, and
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>cube_subset(cube, int4[])</CODE
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add async query capability to dblink (Kai Londenberg,
Joe Conway)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> New operators for array-subset comparisons (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>@></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
><@</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>&&</TT
>) (Tom)
</P
><P
> Various contrib packages already had these operators for their
datatypes, but the naming wasn't consistent. We have now added
consistently named array-subset comparison operators to the core code
and all the contrib packages that have such functionality.
(The old names remain available, but are deprecated.)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Add uninstall scripts for all contrib packages that have install
scripts (David, Josh Drake)
</P
></LI
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