I have run pg_autovacuum on AIX, so that can, at least loosely, be

considered "tested."

And I have turned all of the 7.4 HISTORY material into DocBook for
release.sgml

Christopher Browne
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pg_autovacuum has been tested under Redhat Linux (by me) and Debian
GNU/Linux and Solaris (by Christopher B. Browne) and all known bugs
have been resolved. Please report any problems to the hackers list.
GNU/Linux, Solaris, and AIX (by Christopher B. Browne) and all known
bugs have been resolved. Please report any problems to the hackers
list.
pg_autovacuum requires that the statistics system be enabled and
reporting row level stats. The overhead of the stats system has been
shown to have a significant cost under certain workloads. For instance,
a tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to run nearly
30% slower when stats were enabled. However, in practice, with more
realistic workloads, the stats system overhead is usually nominal.
shown to have a significant cost under certain workloads. For
instance, a tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to
run nearly 30% slower when stats were enabled. However, in practice,
with more realistic workloads, the stats system overhead is usually
nominal.
pg_autovacuum does not get started automatically by either the
postmaster or by pg_ctl. Similarly, when the postmaster exits, no one
@ -67,6 +69,10 @@ excluded from being vacuumed. It would probably make sense to
introduce this sort of functionality by providing arguments to specify
the database and schema in which to find a configuration table.
It would also be desirable for the daemon to monitor how busy the
system is, with a view to deferring vacuums until there is less other
activity.
INSTALL:
--------
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If you are using an earlier version of PostgreSQL, uncompress the
tar.gz file into the contrib directory and modify the contrib/Makefile
to include the pg_autovacuum directory. pg_autovacuum will then be
built as part of the standard postgresql install.
built as part of the standard postgresql install. It is known to work
with v7.3 releases; it is not presently compatible with v7.2.
make sure that the following are set in postgresql.conf:

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<literallayout><![CDATA[
EXTRACT(TIMEZONE) and SET/SHOW TIMEZONE now follow SQL sign convention
(positive = east of UTC)
DATESTYLE can now be set to DMY, YMD, or MDY to specify input field order
Input date order must now be YYYY-MM-DD (with 4-digit year) or match DATESTYLE
Output of SHOW DATESTYLE is now in the same format accepted by SET DATESTYLE
PL/Python is now an untrusted language, and is renamed to 'plpythonu'
Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names
Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers
Precision in FLOAT(p) is now interpreted as bits, not decimal digits
Functional indexes have been generalized into expressional indexes
CHAR(n) to TEXT conversion automatically strips trailing blanks
Pattern matching operations can use indexes regardless of locale
New frontend/backend protocol supports many long-requested features
SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF is no longer supported; psql has an AUTOCOMMIT variable
Reimplementation of NUMERIC datatype for more speed
New regular expression package, many more regexp features (most of Perl5)
Can now do EXPLAIN ... EXECUTE to see plan used for a prepared query
Explicit JOINs no longer constrain query plan, unless JOIN_COLLAPSE_LIMIT = 1
Performance of "foo IN (SELECT ...)" queries has been considerably improved
FETCH 0 now re-fetches cursor's current row, per SQL spec
Revised executor state representation; plan trees are read-only to executor now
Information schema
Domains now support CHECK constraints
psql backslash commands for listing conversions, casts, and schemas
TRUNCATE TABLE is transaction-safe
CLUSTER can re-cluster a previously clustered table, or all such tables
Statement-level triggers
System can use either hash- or sort-based strategy for grouped aggregation
ON COMMIT options for temp tables
extra_float_digits option allows pg_dump to dump float data accurately
Long options for psql and pg_dump are now available on all platforms
Read-only transactions
Object owners can allow grantees to grant the privilege to others (grant option)
]]></literallayout>
</sect1>
<sect2><title>Overview</title>
<para> Major changes in this release:
<glosslist>
<glossentry> <glossterm> IPv6</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address
data types</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> SSL</glossterm>
<glosssdef><para> Major improvements in SSL performance and
reliability</para></glosssdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Index Growth Prevention</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> Allow free space map to efficiently reuse empty index
pages, and other free space management improvements.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Standards Compliance</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> Implement information schema Support for read-only
transactions </para>
<para>Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> New Client/Server Communication
Protocol</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> New protocol improves connection speed/reliability,
and adds error codes, status information, a binary protocol, error
reporting verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Performance</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> IN/NOT IN subqueries now perform as efficiently as
joins</para>
<para> Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets</para>
<para> New multi-key hash join capability</para>
<para> ANSI joins are now better optimized</para>
<para> Faster and more powerful regular expression code</para>
<para> Function-inlining for simple SQL functions</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Holdable Cursors</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> Allow cursors to exist outside transactions
</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Threads</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> libpq and ecpg are now fully thread-safe with
--enable-thread-safety</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm> Contrib</glossterm>
<glossdef><para> New version of full text indexing (tsearch2)</para>
<para> New autovacuum tool</para>
<para> Array handling has been improved and moved into the main
server</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glosslist></para></sect2>
<sect2><title> Migration to version 7.4</title>
<para> A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is
required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release.</para>
<para> Observe the following incompatibilities:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para> The server-side autocommit setting was removed and reimplemented
in client applications and languages.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Error message wording has changed substantially in this release,
and error codes have been added.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> ANSI joins may behave differently because they are now better optimized</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> A number of server variables have been renamed for clarity</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing; return value of MOVE/FETCH 1/0
varies based on the current offset in the cursor</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> COPY now can process carriage-return/line-feed and carriage-return
terminated files. Literal carriage-returns and line-feeds are no
longer accepted as data values; use \r and \n instead.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Trailing spaces are now trimmed when converting
from <type>CHAR(n)</type> to
<type>VARCHAR(n)</type> / <type>TEXT</type></para></listitem>
<listitem><para> <function>FLOAT(p)</function> now measures 'p' in bits, not digits</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Ambiguous date values now must match the ordering specified by DateStyle</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> The <function>oidrand()</function>, <function>oidsrand()</function>,
and <function>userfntest()</function> functions have been
removed.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para></sect2>
<sect2> <title> Changes </title>
<sect3><title> Server Operation</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Allow IPv6 server connections (Nigel Kukard, Johan Jordaan, Bruce, Tom, Kurt
Roeckx, Andrew Dunstan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix SSL to handle errors cleanly (Nathan Mueller)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SSL protocol security and performance improvements (Sean Chittenden)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Print lock information when a deadlock is detected (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update <filename>/tmp</filename> socket mod. times regularly to avoid their removal (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable PAM for MAC OS X (Aaron Hillegass)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make btree indexes fully WAL-safe (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow btree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix inconsistent index lookups during split of first root page (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve free space map allocation logic (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New code to detect corrupt disk pages; erase with zero_damaged_pages (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New client/server protocol: faster, no username length limit, allow
clean exit from COPY (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add transaction status, tableid, columnid to backend protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new binary I/O protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove autocommit server setting; move to client applications (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New error message wording, error codes, and three levels of error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Performance</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Add hashing for GROUP BY aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow nested loops to be smarter about multicolumn indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow multi-key hash joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve constant folding (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ability to inline simple SQL functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage for queries using complex functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve GEQO optimizer performance (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow IN/NOT IN to be handled via hash tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve NOT IN (subquery) performance (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow most IN subqueries to be processed as joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow the postmaster to preload libraries using preload_libraries (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve optimizer cost computations, particularly for subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid sort when subquery ORDER BY matches upper query (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Assume WHERE a.x = b.y and b.y = 42 also means a.x = 42 (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow hash/merge joins on complex joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow hash joins for more data types (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow join optimization of ANSI joins, disable with join_collapse_limit (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add from_collapse_limit to control conversion of subqueries to joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use faster regular expression code from TCL (Henry Spencer, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve backend startup time (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve speed of col IN (const, const, const, ...) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix hash indexes which were broken in rare cases (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve hash index concurrency and speed (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Align shared buffers on 32-byte boundary for copy speed improvement</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Server Configuration</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Rename server parameter server_min_messages to log_min_messages (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename show_*_stats to log_*_stats (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename show_source_port to log_source_port (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rename hostname_lookup to log_hostname (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add checkpoint_warning to warn of excessive checkpointing (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New read-only server parameters for localization (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change debug server log messages to output as DEBUG rather than LOG (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent server log variables from being turned off by non-super users (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>log_min_messages/client_min_messages now controls debug_* output (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Rendezvous server support (Chris Campbell)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ability to print only slow statements using log_min_duration_statement
(Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>postgres --help-config now dumps server config variables (Aizaz Ahmed)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if possible (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new columns in pg_settings: context, type, source , min_val, max_val (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_hba.conf 'hostnossl' to prevent SSL connections (Jon Jensen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove geqo_random_seed server parameter (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Queries</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>New SQL-standard information schema (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add read-only transactions (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add server variable regex_flavor to control regular expression
processing (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Print key name and value in foreign-key violation messages (Dmitry Tkach)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow users to see their own queries in pg_stat_activity (Kevin Brown)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix subquery aggregates of upper query columns to match SQL spec. (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add option to prevent auto-addition of tables referenced in query (Nigel J.
Andrews)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow UPDATE ... SET col = DEFAULT (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow expressions to be used in LIMIT/OFFSET (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change EXECUTE INTO to CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE (Peter)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Object Manipulation</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Make CREATE SEQUENCE grammar more SQL1999 standards compliant (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add FOR EACH STATEMENT statement-level triggers (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add DOMAIN CHECK constraints (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP NOT NULL, SET / DROP DEFAULT, ADD / DROP
CONSTRAINT (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix several zero-column table bugs (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY add NOT NULL constraint (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER DOMAIN OWNER (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE ... WITHOUT OIDS (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE ... CLUSTER ON (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve DOMAIN automatic type casting (Rod, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow dollar signs in identifiers, except as first character (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow dollar signs in operator names, so x=$1 works (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow SQL200X inheritance syntax LIKE <emphasis>subtable</emphasis>, INCLUDING DEFAULTS (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add WITH GRANT OPTION clause to GRANT, per SQL spec (Peter)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Utility Commands</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Add ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS for temp tables (Gavin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow cursors outside transactions using WITH HOLD (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make MOVE/FETCH 0 actually move/fetch 0 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cause FETCH 1 to return the current cursor row, or zero if at
beginning/end of cursor, per SQL spec (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have MOVE return 0 or 1 depending on cursor position (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Properly handle SCROLL with cursors, or report an error (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Implement SQL92-compatible FIRST, LAST, ABSOLUTE n, RELATIVE n options
for FETCH and MOVE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow EXPLAIN on DECLARE CURSOR (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow CLUSTER to use index marked as pre-clustered by default (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow CLUSTER to cluster all tables (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent CLUSTER on partial indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow \r and \r\n termination for COPY files (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow literal carriage return as a data value, backslash-carriage-return
and \r are still allowed (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>COPY changes (binary, \.)? (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Recover from COPY IN/OUT failure cleanly (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible memory leaks in COPY (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make TRUNCATE transaction-safe (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Multiple pg_dump fixes, including tar format and large objects</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_dump to dump specific schemas (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_dump to preserve column storage characteristics (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_dump to preserve CLUSTER characteristics (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have pg_dumpall use GRANT/REVOKE to dump database-level permissions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_dumpall to support the -a, -s, -x options of pg_dump (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent pg_dump from lowercasing identifiers specified on the command line (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow PREPARE/bind of utility commands like FETCH and EXPLAIN (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add EXPLAIN EXECUTE (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_get_constraintdef() to support UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY and
CHECK constraints (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve VACUUM performance on indexes by reducing WAL traffic (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_ctl to better handle non-standard ports (Greg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Functional indexes now support indexes on column expressions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Syntax errors now reported as 'syntax error' rather than 'parse error' (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have SHOW TRANSACTION_ISOLATION match input to SET TRANSACTION_ISOLATION (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on non-local database generate a warning (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve reliability of LISTEN/NOTIFY (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow REINDEX to reliably reindex non-shared system catalog indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dump --use-set-session-authorization and --no-reconnect now do nothing,
all dumps use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Data Types and Functions</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>New extra_float_digits server parameter to control float precision display
(Pedro Ferreira, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow +1300 as a numeric timezone specifier, for FJST (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove rarely used oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest() functions (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add md5() function to main server, already in /contrib/pgcrypto (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increase date range of timestamp (John Cochran)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp) so timestamp without time zone
is assumed to be in local time, not GMT (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Trap division by zero in case the operating system doesn't prevent it (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change the NUMERIC data type internally to base 10000 (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New hostmask() function (Greg Wickham)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixes for to_char() (Karel)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow functions that can take any argument data type and return
any data type, using ANYELEMENT and ANYARRAY (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Arrays may now be specified as ARRAY[1,2,3], ARRAY[['a','b'],['c','d']],
or ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[2]]] (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow proper comparisons for arrays (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow array concatenation with '||' (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow indexes on array columns, and used in ORDER BY and DISTINCT (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow WHERE qualification 'expr <oper> ANY/SOME/ALL (array-expr)' (Joe)
<listitem><para>Allow polymorphic SQL functions (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New array functions array_append(), array_cat(), array_lower(),
array_prepend(), array_to_string(), array_upper(), string_to_array() (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow user defined aggregates to use polymorphic functions (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow polymorphic user defined aggregates (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow assignments to empty arrays (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow CIDR data type to be cast to text (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow the creation of special LIKE indexes for non-C locales (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow invalid timezone names (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Trim trailing spaces when CHAR() data is cast to VARCHAR or TEXT (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make FLOAT(p) measure the precision p in bits, not decimal digits (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add IPv6 support to the inet and cidr data types (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add family() function to report whether address is IPv4 or IPv6 (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have SHOW DATESTYLE generate output similar to that used by SET DATESTYLE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change DATESTYLE to output its value in a more common format (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make EXTRACT(TIMEZONE) and SET/SHOW TIMEZONE follow the SQL convention
for the sign of timezone offsets, ie, positive is east from UTC (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix date_trunc('quarter',...) (B?jthe Zolt?n)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make initcap() more compatible with Oracle (Mike Nolan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow only DateStyle field order for date values not in ISO format (Greg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new DateStyle values MDY, DMY, and YMD, honor US and European for
backward compatibility (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>'now' will no longer work as a column default, use now() (change required for
prepared statements) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Assume NaN value to be larger than any other value in MIN()/MAX() (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent interval from suppressing ':00' seconds display</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_get_triggerdef(prettyprint) and pg_constraint_is_visible() functions</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow time to be specified as '040506' or '0405' (Tom)</para></listitem></oper></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Server-side Languages</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent PL/pgSQL crash when RETURN NEXT is used on a zero-row record var. (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make PL/python's spi_execute interface handle NULLs properly (Andrew Bosma)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow PL/pgSQL to declare variables of composite types without %ROWTYPE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/python _quote() function to handle big integers (?)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make PL/python an untrusted language, now called plpythonu (Kevin Jacobs, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow polymorphic PL/pgSQL functions (Tom, Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved compiled function caching mechanism in PL/pgSQL with full
support for polymorphism (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add new $0 parameter in PL/pgSQL representing the function's actual
return type (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pltcl and plpython use the same trigger on multiple tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed PL/Tcl's spi_prepare to accept full qualified type names in
the parameter type list (Jan)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Psql</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Add "\pset pager always" to always use pager (Greg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve tab completion (Rod, Ross Reedstrom, Ian Barwick)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reorder \? help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>\encoding now changes based on client_encoding server variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Save edit history into readline history (Ross)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve \d display (Christopher)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enhance HTML mode to be more standards-compliant (Greg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New '\set AUTOCOMMIT off' capability (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New '\set VERBOSITY' to control error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New %T prompt string to show transaction status (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Libpq</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Allow PQcmdTuples() to return row counts for MOVE and FETCH (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add PQfreemem() for freeing memory on Win32, suggest for NOTIFY (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Document service capability, and add sample file (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make PQsetdbLogin() have the same defaults as PQconnectdb() (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow libpq to cleanly fail when result sets are too large (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve performance of PGunescapeBytea() (Ben Lamb)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow thread-safe libpq with --enable-thread-safety (Lee Kindness, Philip Yarra)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pqInternalNotice() to accept a format string and args instead of
just a preformatted message (Tom, Sean Chittenden)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow control SSL negotiation with sslmode values "disable", "allow",
"Prefer", and "require" (Jon Jensen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow new error codes and levels of text (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow access to the underlying table and column of a query result (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow access to the current transaction status (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ability to pass binary data directly to the backend (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add PQexecPrepared() and PQsendQueryPrepared() functions which
perform Bind/Execute of previously prepared statements (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>JDBC</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Allow setNull on updateable resultsets</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow executeBatch on a prepared statement (Barry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support SSL connections (Barry)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handle schema names in result sets (Paul Sorenson)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add refcursor support (Nic Ferrier)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Miscellaneous Interfaces</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible memory leak or core dump during libpgtcl shutdown (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ecpg Informix compatibility (Michael)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add ecpg DECIMAL type that is fixed length, for Informix (Michael)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow thread-safe ecpg with --enable-thread-safety (Lee Kindness, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Move python client interface to http://www.pygresql.org (Marc)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Source Code</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result files (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Embed LD_LIBRARY_PATH used for build process into binaries (Billy)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New palloc0 to allocate and clear memory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix locking code for s390x CPU (64-bit) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow OpenBSD to use local ident credentials (William Ahern)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make query plan trees read-only to executor (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Darwin startup scripts (David Wheeler)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow libpq to compile with Borland C++ compiler (Lester Godwin, Karl Waclawek)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use our own version of getopt_long() if needed (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Convert administration scripts to C (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bison >=1.85 is now required for grammar changes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Merge documentation into one book (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Win32 compatibility functions (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow client interfaces to compile under MinGW/Win32 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New ereport() function for error reporting (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support Intel Linux compiler (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve Linux startup scripts (Slawomir Sudnik, Darko Prenosil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add support for AMD Opteron and Itanium (Jeffrey W. Baker, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove configure --enable-recode</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Generate a compile error if spinlock code is not found (Bruce)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3><title>Contrib</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Change dbmirror license to BSD</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve earthdistance (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Portability improvements to pgcrypto (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent xml crash (John Gray, Michael Richards)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update oracle</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update mysql</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update cube (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update earthdistance to use cube (Bruno Wolff III)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update btree_gist (Oleg)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New tsearch2 full-text search module (Oleg, Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add hashed based crosstab function to tablefuncs (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add serial column to order connectby() siblings in tablefuncs (Nabil Sayegh,Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add named persistent connections to dblink (Shridhar Daithanka)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_autovacuum allows automatic VACUUM (Matthew T. O'Connor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pgbench to honor PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER env. variables (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve intarray (Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve pgstattuple (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bug in metaphone() in fuzzystrmatch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve adddepend (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update spi/timetravel (B?jthe Zolt?n)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix dbase -s option and improve non-ASCII handling (Thomas Behr,M?rcio Smiderle)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove array module because features now included by default (Joe)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
<sect3> <title> Other Uncategorized</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><function>EXTRACT(TIMEZONE)</function> and <command>SET/SHOW
TIMEZONE </command> now follow SQL sign convention
(positive = east of UTC)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>DATESTYLE</command> can now be set to DMY, YMD, or MDY to specify input field order</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Input date order must now be YYYY-MM-DD (with 4-digit
year) or match <envar>DATESTYLE</envar></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Output of <command>SHOW DATESTYLE</command> is now in the same
format accepted by <command>SET DATESTYLE</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>PL/Python is now an untrusted language, and is renamed
to <function>plpythonu</function></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Precision in <function> FLOAT(p)</function> is now interpreted as bits, not decimal digits</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Functional indexes have been generalized into expressional indexes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><function>CHAR(n)</function> to <function>TEXT</function> conversion automatically strips trailing blanks</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Pattern matching operations can use indexes regardless of locale</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New frontend/backend protocol supports many long-requested features</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF</command> is no longer
supported; psql has an <envar>AUTOCOMMIT</envar> variable</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reimplementation of NUMERIC datatype for more speed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New regular expression package, many more regexp features (most of Perl5)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Can now do <command> EXPLAIN</command> ... <command>EXECUTE</command> to see plan used for a prepared query</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Explicit <command>JOIN</command>s no longer constrain query
plan, unless <command>JOIN_COLLAPSE_LIMIT = 1</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Performance of <command>foo IN (SELECT ...)</command> queries has been considerably improved</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>FETCH 0</command> now re-fetches cursor's current row, per SQL spec</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Revised executor state representation; plan trees are read-only to executor now</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Information schema</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Domains now support <command>CHECK</command> constraints</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>psql</application> backslash commands for listing conversions, casts, and schemas</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>TRUNCATE TABLE</command> is transaction-safe</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>CLUSTER</command> can re-cluster a previously clustered table, or all such tables</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Statement-level triggers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>System can use either hash- or sort-based strategy for grouped aggregation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>ON COMMIT</command> options for temp tables</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>extra_float_digits option allows <application>pg_dump</application> to dump float data accurately</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Long options for <application>psql</application> and
<application>pg_dump</application> are now available on all platforms</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Read-only transactions</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Object owners can allow grantees to grant the
privilege to others (grant option)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Added <filename>contrib</filename> module for
<application> pg_autovacuum </application> which monitors inserts and
deletes, and does <command>ANALYZE</command> or <command> VACUUM
ANALYZE </command> when quantities exceed specified
thresholds.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-4">
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't lock referenced row when UPDATE doesn't change foreign key's value (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use -fPIC not -fpic on Sparc (Tom Callaway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't lock referenced row when <command>UPDATE</command> doesn't change foreign key's value (Jan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use <command>-fPIC</command> not <command>-fpic</command> on Sparc (Tom Callaway)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair lack of schema-awareness in contrib/reindexdb</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ensure createuser script will exit on control-C (Oliver)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix errors when the type of a dropped column has itself been dropped</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CHECKPOINT does not cause database panic on failure in noncritical steps</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>CHECKPOINT</command> does not cause database panic on failure in noncritical steps</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Issue notice, not error, if TIMESTAMP, TIME, or INTERVAL precision too large</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix abstime-to-time cast function (fix is not applied unless you initdb)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_proc entry for timestamptz_izone (fix is not applied unless you initdb)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp without time zone) treat input as local time</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>'now'::timestamptz gave wrong answer if timezone changed earlier in transaction</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code for time with timezone overwrote its input</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY as a synonym for TEMPORARY</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Issue notice, not error, if <type>TIMESTAMP</type>,
<type> TIME</type>, or <type>INTERVAL</type> precision too large</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>abstime-to-time</function> cast function (fix is
not applied unless you <application>initdb</application>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application>pg_proc</application> entry for
<type> <type>timestampt_izone</type> (fix is not applied unless you
<application>initdb</application>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp without time zone)</function> treat input as local time</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>'now'::timestamptz</command> gave wrong answer if timezone changed earlier in transaction</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><envar>HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP</envar> code for time with timezone overwrote its input</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept <command>GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY</command> as a
synonym for <command>TEMPORARY</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid improper schema-permissions-check failure in foreign-key triggers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bugs in foreign-key triggers for SET DEFAULT action</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix incorrect time-qual check in row fetch for UPDATE and DELETE triggers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Foreign-key clauses were parsed but ignored in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bugs in foreign-key triggers for <command>SET DEFAULT</command> action</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix incorrect time-qual check in row fetch for
<command>UPDATE</command> and <command>DELETE</command> triggers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Foreign-key clauses were parsed but ignored in
<command>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix createlang script breakage for case where handler function already exists</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior on zero-column tables in pg_dump, COPY, ANALYZE, other places</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior of func_error() on type names containing '%'</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior of replace() on strings containing '%'</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior on zero-column tables in <application>pg_dump</application>, COPY, ANALYZE, other places</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior of <function>func_error()</function> on type names containing '%'</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix misbehavior of <function>replace()</function> on strings containing '%'</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Regular-expression patterns containing certain multibyte characters failed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Account correctly for NULLs in more cases in join size estimation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid conflict with system definition of isblank() function or macro</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Account correctly for <command>NULL</command>s in more cases in join size estimation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid conflict with system definition of <function>isblank()</function> function or macro</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix failure to convert large code point values in EUC_TW conversions (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix error recovery for SSL_read/SSL_write calls</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix error recovery for <function>SSL_read</function>/<function>SSL_write</function> calls</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Don't do early constant-folding of type coercion expressions</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Validate page header fields immediately after reading in any page</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair incorrect check for ungrouped variables in unnamed joins</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix buffer overrun in to_ascii (Guido Notari)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix buffer overrun in <function>to_ascii</function> (Guido Notari)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/ltree fixes (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid running out of buffers in many-way indexscan (bug introduced in 7.3)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix planner's selectivity estimation functions to handle domains properly</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix dbmirror memory-allocation bug (Steven Singer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent infinite loop in ln(numeric) due to roundoff error</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GROUP BY got confused if there were multiple equal GROUP BY items</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bad plan when inherited UPDATE/DELETE references another inherited table</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application>dbmirror</application> memory-allocation bug (Steven Singer)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent infinite loop in <function>ln(numeric)</function> due to roundoff error</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>GROUP BY</command> got confused if there were multiple equal GROUP BY items</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix bad plan when inherited <command>UPDATE</command>/<command>DELETE</command> references another inherited table</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent clustering on incomplete (partial or non-NULL-storing) indexes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Service shutdown request at proper time if it arrives while still starting up</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix left-links in temporary indexes (could make backwards scans miss entries)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix incorrect handling of client_encoding setting in postgresql.conf (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix failure to respond to 'pg_ctl stop -m fast' after Async_NotifyHandler runs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix failure to respond to <command>pg_ctl stop -m fast</command> after Async_NotifyHandler runs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix SPI for case where rule contains multiple statements of the same type</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with checking for wrong type of access permission in rule query</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with EXCEPT in CREATE RULE</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with <command>EXCEPT</command> in <command>CREATE RULE</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent problem with dropping temp tables having serial columns</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix replace_vars_with_subplan_refs failure in complex views</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix regexp slowness in single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow qualified type names in CREATE CAST and DROP CAST</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept 'SETOF type[]', which formerly had to be written 'SETOF _type'</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump core dump in some cases with procedural languages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force ISO datestyle in pg_dump output, for portability (Oliver)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dump failed to handle error return from lo_read (Oleg Drokin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dumpall failed with groups having no members (Nick Eskelinen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dumpall failed to recognize --globals-only switch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow qualified type names in <command>CREATE CAST</command>
and <command> DROP CAST</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Accept <function>SETOF type[]</function>, which formerly had to
be written <function>SETOF _type</function></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application>pg_dump</application> core dump in some cases with procedural languages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force ISO datestyle in <application>pg_dump</application> output, for portability (Oliver)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>pg_dump</application> failed to handle error return
from <function>lo_read</function> (Oleg Drokin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>pg_dumpall</application> failed with groups having no members (Nick Eskelinen)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>pg_dumpall</application> failed to recognize --globals-only switch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_restore failed to restore blobs if -X disable-triggers is specified</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair intrafunction memory leak in plpgsql</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pltcl's elog command dumped core if given wrong parameters (Ian Harding)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>plpython used wrong value of atttypmod (Brad McLean)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pltcl's <command>elog</command> command dumped core if given wrong parameters (Ian Harding)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>plpython used wrong value of <envar>atttypmod</envar> (Brad McLean)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix improper quoting of boolean values in Python interface (D'Arcy)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added addDataType() method to PGConnection interface for JDBC</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added <function>addDataType()</function> method to PGConnection interface for JDBC</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed various problems with updateable ResultSets for JDBC (Shawn Green)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed various problems with DatabaseMetaData for JDBC (Kris Jurka, Peter Royal)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed problem with parsing table ACLs in JDBC</para></listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Restore creation of OID column in CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump core dump when dumping views having comments</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application/pg_dump/ core dump when dumping views having comments</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Dump DEFERRABLE/INITIALLY DEFERRED constraints properly</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix UPDATE when child table's column numbering differs from parent</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Increase default value of max_fsm_relations</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem when fetching backwards in a cursor for a single-row query</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make backward fetch work properly with cursor on SELECT DISTINCT query</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with loading pg_dump files containing contrib/lo usage</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problems with loading <application/pg_dump/ files containing contrib/lo usage</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with all-numeric user names</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix possible memory leak and core dump during disconnect in libpgtcl</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make plpython's spi_execute command handle nulls properly (Andrew Bosma)</para></listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix a core dump of COPY TO when client/server encodings don't match (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow pg_dump to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow <application/pg_dump/ to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/adddepend fixes (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with deletion of per-user/per-database config settings (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>contrib/vacuumlo fix (Tom)</para></listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Have COPY TO output embedded carriage returns and newlines as \r and \n (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow DELIMITER in COPY FROM to be 8-bit clean (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make pg_dump use ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, for performance (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make <application/pg_dump/ use ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, for performance (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disable brackets in multistatement rules (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disable VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow dropdb and other scripts to use identifiers with spaces (Bruce)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set configuration variables for a single transaction (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow ANALYZE to run in a transaction (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve COPY syntax using new WITH clauses, keep backward compatibility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to consistently output tags in non-ASCII dumps (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application/pg_dump/ to consistently output tags in non-ASCII dumps (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow COPY TO/FROM to specify column names (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs (Neil)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix CLUSTER to preserve all table attributes (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add smart quoting, portability improvements to pg_dump output (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add smart quoting, portability improvements to <application/pg_dump/ output (Peter)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Dump serial columns out as SERIAL (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable large file support, >2G for <application/pg_dump/ (Peter, Philip Warner, Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints (Rod)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on previous CLUSTER operations (Alvaro Herrera)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix possible hang during server shutdown</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <application/pg_dump/ to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<listitem><para>Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for psql and pg_dump crashing when invoked with non-existent long options (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for psql and <application/pg_dump/ crashing when invoked with non-existent long options (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)</para></listitem>
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<sect3>
<title>Internationalization</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>National language support in psql, pg_dump, libpq, and server (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>National language support in psql, <application/pg_dump/, libpq, and server (Peter E)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A. Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte aware (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko, Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent output of default index op class in pg_dump (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Prevent output of default index op class in <application/pg_dump/ (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix libpgeasy memory leak (Bruce)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>