Update for 6.3p1 release.

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Bruce Momjian 1998-03-21 05:28:27 +00:00
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PostgreSQL 6.3p1 Sun Mar 22 00:19:35 EST 1998
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A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A 'make clean',
'make', and 'make install' is all that is required. You may want to
re-link your any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
Changes
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ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh(alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk)
LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
ultrix4 cleanup
upgrade to pg_access 0.83
updated CLUSTER manual page
multi-byte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
configure --with-pgport fix
pg_ident fix
big-endian fix for backend communications(Tatsuo)
SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Thomas)
several jdbc fixes(Peter)
libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
Sunos4 cleanup
Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
PostgreSQL 6.3 Sun Mar 1 14:57:30 EST 1998
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@ -173,6 +212,7 @@ Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas)
Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce)
PostgreSQL 6.2.1 Fri Oct 17 00:01:27 EDT 1997
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@ -195,6 +235,7 @@ Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
PostgreSQL 6.2 Thu Oct 02 12:53:46 EDT 1997
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@ -311,6 +352,7 @@ Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce)
SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy)
PostgreSQL 6.1.1 Mon Jul 22 18:04:49 EDT 1997
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@ -337,6 +379,7 @@ allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)
PostgreSQL 6.1 Sun Jun 8 14:41:13 EDT 1997
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@ -437,6 +480,9 @@ more shared library support
c++ include file cleanup(Bruce)
warn about buggy flex(Bruce)
DG-UX, Ultrix, Irix, AIX portability fixes
PostgreSQL 6.0 Wed Jan 29 00:19:54 EST 1997
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@ -548,6 +594,7 @@ Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc)
Unused/uninialized variables corrected
PostgreSQL 1.09 ???
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@ -556,6 +603,7 @@ the changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09
releases.
Postgres95 1.02 Thu Aug 1 18:00:00 EDT 1996
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@ -613,6 +661,8 @@ Contributors (appologies to any missed)
* Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
* "Alistair G. Crooks" <azcb0@sde.uts.amdahl.com>
Postgres95 1.01 Fri Feb 23 18:20:36 PST 1996
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Incompatibilities:
@ -648,6 +698,8 @@ Bug fixes:
* psql now returns non-zero status on errors when using -c
* applied public patches 1-14
Postgres95 1.0 Tue Sep 5 11:24:11 PDT 1995
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@ -692,6 +744,7 @@ Bug fixes:
work when you try to use them
Postgres95 Beta 0.03 Fri Jul 21 14:49:31 PDT 1995
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Incompatible changes:
@ -800,6 +853,8 @@ New utilities:
New documentation:
* the user manual has been revised and libpq documentation added.
Postgres95 Beta 0.02 (Thu May 25 16:54:46 PDT 1995)
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Incompatible changes:
@ -836,6 +891,8 @@ The following bugs have been fixed in postgres95-beta-0.02:
* CREATE TYPE doesn't accept 'variable' as the internallength
* wrong result using more than 1 aggregate in a SELECT
Postgres95 Beta 0.01 (Mon May 1 19:03:10 PDT 1995)
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Initial release.

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TODO list for PostgreSQL
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Last updated: Sun Mar 1 17:14:36 EST 1998
Last updated: Sat Mar 21 00:26:29 EST 1998
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Developers who have claimed items are:
* Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
* Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
* Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de>
* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
* Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
* Oleg is Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
* Paul is Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
* Patrick is Patrick van Kleef <pvk@pobox.com>
@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ RELIABILITY
* Tables that start with xinv confused to be large objects
* Two and three dimmensional arrays display improperly, missing {}
* GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2 fails
* lo_unlink() crashes server
* Prevent auto-table reference, like SELECT table.col WHERE col = 3 (?)
* SELECT * FROM table WHERE int4_column = '1' fails
* SELECT a[1] FROM test fails, it needs test.a[1]
@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ RELIABILITY
* User who can create databases can modify pg_database table
* optimizer memory exhaustion with many OR's
* elog() does not free all its memory(Jan)
* views on subselects fail
* disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns
* recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted
ENHANCEMENTS
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@ -86,10 +88,10 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Allow transaction commits with rollback with no-fsync performance
* More access control over who can create tables and access the database
* Add full ANSI SQL capabilities
* Implement HAVING clause
* Implement HAVING clause(Stephan)
* add OUTER joins, left and right (Thomas)
* make VIEWs updateable where possible
* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS
* add INTERSECTS, SUBTRACTS(Stephan)
* add temporary tables(Bruce)
* add sql3 recursive unions
* add the concept of dataspaces
@ -106,9 +108,11 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Large objects
* Fix large object mapping scheme, own reltype
* not to stuff everything as files in a single directory
* Fix large object memory leaks
* Better interface for adding to pg_group
* Make MONEY/DECIMAL have a defined precision
* Add support for tables >2G, or test current version
* Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached
(fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE)
* Threaded version of the server or libpq
* Allow libpq to cancel query requests
* Add REGEX internationalization
@ -135,7 +139,6 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from ""(?)
* Allow variable casts with BETWEEN 'today'::asbtime AND 'today'::abstime
* Allow INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM view to work
* Allow text, char(), and varchar() overhead to be only 2 bytes, not 4 bytes
* Make VACUUM on database not lock pg_class
* Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock
* Allow cursors to be DECLAREd/OPENed/CLOSEed outside transactions
@ -145,6 +148,15 @@ ENHANCEMENTS
* Allow variable block sizes(Darren)
* System tables are now more update-able from SQL(Jan)
* New pg_shadow file, pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow(Jan)
* Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
* Allow CLUSTER on all tables at once, and improve CLUSTER
* Change all references of Postgres to PostgreSQL, including binary names
* Add ELOG_TIMESTAMPS to elog()(?)
* Change LOCK tablename to LOCK TABLE tablename(?)
* Allow max tuple length to be changed(Darren)
* Have psql with no database name not connect to username as default(?)
* Allow subqueries in target list
* Granting permissions to another user looses permissions for the owner
PERFORMANCE
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* update pg_statistic table to remove operator column
* make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster(Vadim)
* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork()
* Improve vacuum locking issues
* Add base table name to \d index
* Allow char() not to use variable-sized header to reduce disk size
* Do async I/O to do better read-ahead of data
* Fix optmizer problem with self-table joins
* Fix memory exhaustion when using many OR's
* Use spin locks only on multi-CPU systems, yield CPU instead
* Get faster regex() code from Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.utoronto.ca>
when it is available
DOCUMENTATION
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@ -170,10 +188,44 @@ DOCUMENTATION
* added features used in grammer but not in docs, like :: and CAST
* update libpq++ and pginterface manual page
* Add keyword list to documentation, already in /tools
* Add 'man pgsql' to show all manual page names
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CHANGES IN THE 6.3p1 PATCH
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ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh(alvin@camberlo.demon.co.uk)
LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
ultrix4 cleanup
upgrade to pg_access 0.83
updated CLUSTER manual page
multi-byte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
configure --with-pgport fix
pg_ident fix
big-endian fix for backend communications(Tatsuo)
SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Thomas)
several jdbc fixes(Peter)
libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
Sunos4 cleanup
Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
CHANGES IN THE 6.3 RELEASE
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