Re: Release changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | Bruce Momjian |
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Subject | Re: Release changes |
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Msg-id | 200308051436.h75EaW502972@candle.pha.pa.us Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Release changes (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>) |
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Re: Release changes
Re: Release changes |
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Oh, yes. Let me add that. I didn't realize that was a change of enough significance. How is this? Prevent timestamp from supressing ':00' seconds display --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Rosenman wrote: > No, the one where we always print hh:mm:ss for an interval, even if seconds > is zero. > > > > --On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 01:03:57 -0400 Bruce Momjian > <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > > > > > I don't know about that item. There is a menion of allowing 60 seconds > > --- is that it? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > > > Larry Rosenman wrote: > >> What about the interval change in ISO datestyle for zero seconds? > >> > >> LER > >> > >> > >> --On Sunday, August 03, 2003 19:30:26 -0400 Bruce Momjian > >> <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Here are the changes for 7.4. I am looking for any improvements. This > >> > will be adjusted as we move through beta. > >> > > >> > I need to work on the other sections of a major release, like a > >> > compatibility section. > >> > > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > --- -- > >> > > >> > Release Notes > >> > > >> > 7.4 Development Branch > >> > > >> > > >> > Valid as of 2003-08-01. Update release.sgml later. > >> > > >> > > >> > Server Operation > >> > > >> > Allow IPv6 server connections (Nigel Kukard, Johan Jordaan, Bruce, Tom, > >> > Kurt Roeckx, Andrew Dunstan) > >> > Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller) > >> > SSL protocol security and performance improvements (Sean Chittenden) > >> > Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom) > >> > Update /tmp socket files regularly to avoid their removal (Tom) > >> > Enable PAM for MAC OS X (Aaron Hillegass) > >> > Make btree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom) > >> > Allow btree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom) > >> > Fix inconsistent index lookups during split of first root page (Tom) > >> > Improve free space map allocation logic (Tom) > >> > Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom) > >> > Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter) > >> > Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil) > >> > New code to detect corrupt disk pages; erase with zero_damaged_pages > >> > (Tom) New client/server protocol: faster, no username length limit, > >> > allow clean exit > >> > Add transaction status, tableid, columnid to backend protocol (Tom) > >> > Add new binary I/O protocol (Tom) > >> > Remove autocommit server setting; move to client applications (Tom) > >> > New error message wording, error codes, and three levels of error > >> > detail (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Performance > >> > > >> > Add hashing for GROUP BY aggregates (Tom) > >> > Allow nested loops to be smarter about multicolumn indexes (Tom) > >> > Allow multi-key hash joins (Tom) > >> > Improve constant folding (Tom) > >> > Add ability to inline simple SQL functions (Tom) > >> > Reduce memory usage for queries using complex functions (Tom) > >> > Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom) > >> > Allow IN/NOT IN to be handled via hash tables (Tom) > >> > Improve NOT IN (subquery) performance (Tom) > >> > Allow most IN subqueries to be processed as joins (Tom) > >> > Improve reverse index scan performance (Tom) > >> > Improve optimizer cost computations, particularly for subqueries (Tom) > >> > Assume WHERE a.x = b.y and b.y = 42 also means a.x = 42 (Tom) > >> > Allow hash/merge joins on complex joins (Tom) > >> > Allow hash joins for more data types (Tom) > >> > Allow join optimization of ANSI joins, disable with join_collapse_limit > >> > (Tom) Add from_collapse_limit to control conversion of subqueries to > >> > joins (Tom) Use faster regex code from TCL (Henry Spencer, Tom) > >> > Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom) > >> > Improve backend startup time (Tom) > >> > Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Server Configuration > >> > > >> > Rename server parameter server_min_messages to log_min_messages (Bruce) > >> > Rename show_*_stats to log_*_stats (Bruce) > >> > Rename show_source_port to log_source_port (Bruce) > >> > Rename hostname_lookup to log_hostname (Bruce) > >> > Add checkpoint_warning to warn of excessive checkpointing (Bruce) > >> > Allow the postmaster to preload libraries using preload_libraries (Joe) > >> > New read-only server parameters for localization (Tom) > >> > Change debug server log messages to output as DEBUG rather than LOG > >> > (Bruce) Prevent server log variables from being turned off by non-super > >> > users (Bruce) log_min_messages/client_min_messages now controls debug_* > >> > output (Bruce) Add Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell) > >> > Add ability to print only slow statements using > >> > log_min_duration_statement (Christopher) > >> > Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan) > >> > New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom) > >> > New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error detail > >> > (Tom) postgres --help-config now dumps server config variables (Tom) > >> > Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if possible > >> > (Tom) Add pg_settings table to see server settings (Joe) > >> > Prevent assign_session_authorization() from being confused by > >> > all-numeric user names (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Queries > >> > > >> > New SQL-standard information schema (Peter) > >> > Add read-only transactions (Peter) > >> > Add server variable regex_flavor to control regular expression > >> > processing (Tom) > >> > Allow ORDER BY in FROM subqueries to be honored by outer queries (Tom) > >> > Print key name in foreign-key violation messages (Dmitry Tkach) > >> > Allow users to see their own queries in pg_stat_activity (Kevin Brown) > >> > Allow subquery aggregates to reference upper query columns (?) (Tom) > >> > Add option to prevent auto-addition of tables referenced in query > >> > (Nigel J. Andrews) > >> > Allow dollar signs in identifiers, except as first character (Tom) > >> > Allow UPDATE ... SET col = DEFAULT (Rod) > >> > Allow expressions to be used in LIMIT/OFFSET (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Object Manipulation > >> > > >> > Make CREATE SEQUENCE grammar more SQL1999 standards compliant (Neil) > >> > Add FOR EACH STATEMENT statement-level triggers (Neil Conway) > >> > Add DOMAIN CHECK constraints (Rod) > >> > Add ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP NOT NULL, SET / DROP DEFAULT, ADD / DROP > >> > CONSTRAINT (Rod) > >> > Allow zero-column tables (Tom) > >> > Have ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY add NOT NULL constraint (Rod) > >> > Add ALTER DOMAIN OWNER (Rod) > >> > Add pg_trigger.tgenabled to disable triggers? (Neil) > >> > Add ALTER TABLE ... WITHOUT OIDS? (Rod) > >> > Have parser honor foreign-key constraints if created via ALTER TABLE > >> > ADD COLUMN? (Tom) > >> > Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values (Rod) > >> > Add ALTER TABLE ... CLUSTER ON (Alvaro Herrera) > >> > Improve DOMAIN automatic type casting (Tom) > >> > Disallow dollar signs in operator names (Tom) > >> > Allow SQL200X inheritance syntax LIKE <subtable>, INCLUDING DEFAULTS? > >> > (Rod) Object owners can allow grantees to grant privilege to others? > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Utility Commands > >> > > >> > Add ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS for temp tables (Gavin) > >> > Allow cursors outside transactions using WITH HOLD (Neil) > >> > Make MOVE/FETCH 0 actually move/fetch 0 (Bruce) > >> > Add MOVE ALL to move to end of cursor (Bruce) > >> > Cause FETCH 1 to return the current cursor row, or zero if at > >> > beginning/end of cursor, per SQL spec (Bruce) > >> > Have MOVE return 0 or 1 depending on cursor position (Bruce) > >> > Properly handle SCROLL with cursors, or report an error (Tom) > >> > Implement SQL92-compatible FIRST, LAST, ABSOLUTE n, RELATIVE n options > >> > for FETCH and MOVE (Tom) > >> > Allow EXPLAIN on DECLARE CURSOR (Tom) > >> > Allow CLUSTER to use index marked as pre-clustered by default (Alvaro > >> > Herrera) Allow CLUSTER without tablename clusters all tables (Alvaro > >> > Herrera) Prevent CLUSTER on partial indexes (Tom) > >> > Allow \r and \r\n termination for COPY files (Bruce) > >> > Disallow literal carriage return as a data value, > >> > backslash-carriage-return and \r still allowed (Bruce) > >> > COPY changes (binary, \.)? (Tom) > >> > Recover from COPY IN/OUT failure cleanly (Tom) > >> > Reduce memory used by COPY (Tom) > >> > Make TRUNCATE transaction-safe (Rod) > >> > Multiple pg_dump fixes, including tar format and large objects > >> > Allow pg_dump to dump specific schemas (Neil) > >> > Allow pg_dump to preserve column storage characteristics (Christopher) > >> > Allow pg_dump to preserve CLUSTER characteristics (Christopher) > >> > Have pg_dumpall use GRANT/REVOKE to dump database-level permissions > >> > (Tom) Allow pg_dumpall to support the -a, -s, -x options of pg_dump > >> > (Tom) Prevent pg_dump from lowercasing identifiers specified on the > >> > command line (Tom) Allow EXPLAIN EXECUTE (Neil) > >> > Allow pg_get_constraintdef() to support UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY and > >> > CHECK constraints (Christopher) > >> > Improve VACUUM performance on indexes by reducing WAL traffic (Tom) > >> > Allow pg_ctl to better handle non-standard ports (Greg) > >> > Functional indexes now support indexes on column expressions (Tom) > >> > Syntax errors now reported as 'syntax error' rather than 'parse error' > >> > (Tom) Have SHOW TRANSACTION_ISOLATION match input to SET > >> > TRANSACTION_ISOLATION (Tom) Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on non-local > >> > database generate a warning (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Data Types and Functions > >> > > >> > New extra_float_digits server parameter to control float precision > >> > display (Pedro Ferreira, Tom) > >> > Allow +1300 as a numeric timezone specifier, for FJST (Tom) > >> > Remove rarely used oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest() functions > >> > (Neil) Add md5() function to main server, already in /contrib/pgcrypto > >> > (Joe) Increase date range of timestamp (John Cochran) > >> > Change EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp) so timestamp without time zone > >> > is assumed to be in local time, not GMT (Tom) > >> > Trap division by zero in case the operating system doesn't prevent it > >> > (Tom) Change the NUMERIC data type internally to base 10000 (Tom) > >> > New hostmast() function (Greg Wickham) > >> > Fixes for to_char() (Karel) > >> > Allow functions that can take any argument data type and return > >> > any data type, using ANYELEMENT and ANYARRAY (Joe) > >> > Arrays may now be specified as ARRAY[1,2,3], > >> > ARRAY[['a','b'],['c','d']], or ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[2]]] (Joe) > >> > Allow proper comparisons for arrays (Joe) > >> > Allow indexes on array columns, and used in ORDER BY and DISTINCT (Joe) > >> > Allow WHERE qualifications of the form 'col IN/ANY/SOME/ALL (array) (?) > >> > (Joe) Allow SQL functions to return arrays and take them as params > >> > (Joe) Allow array concatenation with '||' and normal array comparisons > >> > (Joe) New array functions array_append(), array_cat(), array_lower(), > >> > array_prepend(), array_to_string(), array_upper(), string_to_array() > >> > (Joe) Allow assignments to empty arrays (Joe) > >> > Allow 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values > >> > (Tom) Allow PREPARE/bind of utility commands like FETCH and EXPLAIN > >> > (Tom) Allow CIDR data type to be cast to text (Tom) > >> > Allow the creation of special LIKE indexes for non-C locales (Peter) > >> > Disallow invalid timezone names (Tom) > >> > Trim trailing spaces when CHAR() data is cast to VARCHAR or TEXT (Tom) > >> > Make FLOAT(p) measure the precision p in bits, not decimal digits (Tom) > >> > Add IPv6 support to the inet and cidr data types (Michael Graff) > >> > Add family() function to report whether address is IPv4 or IPv6 > >> > (Michael Graff) Have SHOW DATESTYLE generate output similar to that > >> > used by SET DATESTYLE (Tom) Change DATESTYLE to output its value in a > >> > more common format (Tom) Make EXTRACT(TIMEZONE) and SET/SHOW TIMEZONE > >> > follow the SQL convention for the sign of timezone offsets, ie, > >> > positive is east from UTC (Tom) Fix date_trunc('quarter',...) (B?jthe > >> > Zolt?n) > >> > Make initcap() more compatible with Oracle (Mike Nolan) > >> > Honor only DateStyle setting for date entry without a four-digit year > >> > (Greg) Add new DateStyle values MDY, DMY, and YMD, honor US and > >> > European for backward compatibility (Tom) > >> > 'now' will no longer work as a default, use now() (change required for > >> > prepared statements) (Tom) > >> > Assume NaN value to be larger than any other value in comparisons (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Server-side Languages > >> > > >> > Prevent PL/pgSQL crash when RETURN NEXT is used on a zero-row record > >> > (Tom) Make PL/python's spi_execute interface handle NULLs properly > >> > (Andrew Bosma) Allow PL/pgSQL to declare variables of composite types > >> > without %ROWTYPE (Tom) Fix PL/python _quote() function to handle big > >> > integers (?) Make PL/python an untrusted language, now called > >> > plpythonu (Kevin Jacobs, Tom) Change PL/pgSQL EXECUTE INTO to CREATE > >> > TABLE AS EXECUTE? (Peter) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Psql > >> > > >> > Add "\pset pager always" to always use pager (Greg) > >> > Improve tab completion (Rod, Ross Reedstrom, Ian Barwick) > >> > Reorder \? help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce) > >> > Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands (Christopher) > >> > \encoding now tracks client_encoding server variable (Tom) > >> > Save edit history into readline history (Ross) > >> > Improve \d display (Christopher) > >> > Enhance HTML mode to be more standards-compliant (Greg) > >> > New '\set autocommit off' capability (Tom) > >> > New '\set verbosity' to control error detail (Tom) > >> > New %T prompt string to show transaction status (Tom) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Libpq > >> > > >> > Allow PQcmdTuples() to return row counts for MOVE and FETCH (Neil) > >> > Add PQfreemem() for freeing memory on Win32, suggest for NOTIFY (Bruce) > >> > Document service capability, and add sample file (Bruce) > >> > Make PQsetdbLogin() have the same defaults as PQconnectdb() (Tom) > >> > Allow libpq to cleanly fail when result sets are too large (Tom) > >> > Improve performance of PGunescapeBytea() (Ben Lamb) > >> > Allow threaded with --enable-thread-safety (Lee Kindness, Bruce) > >> > Allow pqInternalNotice() to accept a format string and args instead of > >> > just a preformatted message (Tom, Sean Chittenden) > >> > Allow control SSL negotiation with sslmode values "disable", "allow", > >> > "Prefer", and "require" (Jon Jensen) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > JDBC > >> > > >> > Allow setNull on updateable resultsets > >> > Allow executeBatch on a prepared statement (Barry) > >> > Support SSL connections (Barry) > >> > Handle schema names in result sets (Paul Sorenson) > >> > Add refcursor support (Nic Ferrier) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Miscellaneous Interfaces > >> > > >> > Prevent possible memory leak or core dump during libpgtcl shutdown > >> > (Tom) Add ecpg Informix compatibility (Michael) > >> > Add ecpg DECIMAL type that is fixed length, for Informix (Michael) > >> > Allow threaded ecpg with --enable-thread-safety (Lee Kindness, Bruce) > >> > Allow client interfaces to compile under MinGW/win32 (Bruce) > >> > Move python client interface to http://www.pygresql.org (Marc) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Source Code > >> > > >> > Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result files > >> > (Tom) Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max) > >> > Embed LD_LIBRARY_PATH used for build process into binaries (Billy) > >> > New palloc0 to allocate and clear memory (Bruce) > >> > Fix locking code for s390x CPU (64-bit) (Tom) > >> > Allow OpenBSD to use local indent credentials (William Ahern) > >> > Allow read-only query plans (Tom) > >> > Add Darwin startup scripts (David Wheeler) > >> > Allow libpq to compile with Borland C++ compiler (Lester Godwin, Karl > >> > Waclawek) Use our own version of getopt_long() if needed (Peter) > >> > Convert administration scripts to C (Peter) > >> > Bison >=1.85 is now required for grammar changes > >> > Merge documentation into one book (Peter) > >> > Add Win32 compatibility functions (Bruce) > >> > New ereport() function for error reporting (Tom) > >> > Support Intel Linux compiler (Peter) > >> > Improve Linux startup scripts (Slawomir Sudnik, Darko Prenosil) > >> > Add support for AMD Opteron and Itanium (Jeffrey W. Baker, Bruce) > >> > > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Contrib > >> > > >> > Change dbmirror license to BSD > >> > Improve earthdistance (Bruno Wolff III) > >> > Portability improvements to pgcrypto (Marko Kreen) > >> > Prevent xml crash (John Gray, Michael Richards) > >> > Upgrade oracle > >> > Upgrade mysql > >> > Update cube (Bruno Wolff III) > >> > Update earthdistance to use cube (Bruno Wolff III) > >> > Update btree_gist (Oleg) > >> > Add hashes to tablefuncs (Joe) > >> > New pg_autovacuum allows automatic VACUUM (Matthew T. O'Connor) > >> > Allow pgbench to honor PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER env. variables (Tatsuo) > >> > Improve intarray (Teodor Sigaev) > >> > Improve pgstattuple (Rod) > >> > Fix second argument to metaphone() in fullystrmatch > >> > Add named persistent connections to dblink (Shridhar Daithanka) > >> > Improve adddepend (Rod) > >> > Update spi/timetravel (B?jthe Zolt?n) > >> > Fix dbase -s option (Thomas Behr) > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > >> Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org > >> US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 > >> > > > > -- > Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org > US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania19073
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