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HISTORY

@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 
                                Release Notes
                                       
+                           7.4 Development Branch
+                                      
+   Below is a subset of the changes that have gone into the development
+   branch of PostgreSQL since version 7.3. For a complete list of
+   changes, consult the CVS logs.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+   
                                 Release 7.3
                                       
-     Release date: 2002-11-??
+     Release date: 2002-11-27
      _________________________________________________________________
    
                                   Overview
@@ -11,11 +18,11 @@ Overview
    Major changes in this release:
    
    Schemas
-          Schemas allow users to create objects in their own namespace so
+          Schemas allow users to create objects in separate namespaces,
-          two people or applications can have tables with the same name.
+          so two people or applications can have tables with the same
-          There is also a public schema for shared tables. Table/index
+          name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
-          creation can be restricted by removing permissions on the
+          Table/index creation can be restricted by removing permissions
-          public schema.
+          on the public schema.
           
    Drop Column
           PostgreSQL now supports the ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
@@ -55,7 +62,10 @@ Overview
           
    Functions/Identifiers
           By default, functions can now take up to 32 parameters, and
-          identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long.
+          identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long. Also, OPAQUE is now
+          deprecated: there are specific "pseudo-datatypes" to represent
+          each of the former meanings of OPAQUE in function argument and
+          result types.
      _________________________________________________________________
    
                           Migration to version 7.3
@@ -71,21 +81,26 @@ Migration to version 7.3
      * Pre-6.3 clients are no longer supported.
      * "pg_hba.conf" now has a column for the user name and additional
        features. Existing files need to be adjusted.
-     * Several "postgresql.conf" logging parameters have been renamed and
+     * Several "postgresql.conf" logging parameters have been renamed.
-       improved.
      * LIMIT #,# has been disabled; use LIMIT # OFFSET #.
-     * "INSERT" statements with column lists must specify all values;
+     * "INSERT" statements with column lists must specify a value for
-       e.g., INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1') is now invalid.
+       each specified column. For example, INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2)
-     * An index is now not automatically created for serial columns.
+       VALUES ('val1') is now invalid. It's still allowed to supply fewer
+       columns than expected if the "INSERT" does not have a column list.
+     * serial columns are no longer automatically UNIQUE; thus, an index
+       will not automatically be created.
      * A "SET" command inside an aborted transaction is now rolled back.
      * "COPY" no longer considers missing trailing columns to be null.
-       All columns need to be specified.
+       All columns need to be specified. (However, one may achieve a
+       similar effect by specifying a column list in the "COPY" command.)
      * The data type timestamp is now equivalent to timestamp without
        time zone, instead of timestamp with time zone.
      * Pre-7.3 databases loaded into 7.3 will not have the new object
        dependencies for serial columns, unique constraints, and foreign
        keys. See the directory "contrib/adddepend/" for a detailed
        description and a script that will add such dependencies.
+     * An empty string ('') is no longer allowed as the input into an
+       integer field. Formerly, it was silently interpreted as 0.
      _________________________________________________________________
    
                                   Changes
@@ -113,7 +128,7 @@ Performance
    Speed improvement for large object restore (Mario Weilguni)
    Mark expired index entries on first lookup, saving later heap fetches
      (Tom)
-   Eliminate NULL bitmap padding when not required (Manfred)
+   Avoid excessive NULL bitmap padding (Manfred Koizar)
    Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris, for performance (Bruce)
    Reduce per-row overhead by four bytes (Manfred Koizar)
    Fix GEQO optimizer bug (Neil Conway)
@@ -173,7 +188,7 @@ Queries
    Disable LIMIT #,# syntax; now only LIMIT # OFFSET # supported (Bruce)
    Increase identifier length to 63 (Neil, Bruce)
    UNION fixes for merging >= 3 columns of different lengths (Tom)
-   Add DEFAULT keyword to INSERT, e.g., INSERT ... (..., DEFAULT, )
+   Add DEFAULT keyword to INSERT, e.g., INSERT ... (..., DEFAULT, ...)
      (Rod)
    Allow views to have default values using ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT
      (Neil)
@@ -195,7 +210,7 @@ Queries
 Object Manipulation
 
    Make equals signs optional in CREATE DATABASE (Gavin Sherry)
-   Make ALTER TABLE OWNER to change index ownership (Neil)
+   Make ALTER TABLE OWNER change index ownership too (Neil)
    New ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET STORAGE controls
      TOAST storage, compression (John Gray)
    Add schema support, CREATE/DROP SCHEMA (Tom)
@@ -245,7 +260,7 @@ Utility Commands
      (Rod)
    Rollback SET commands in aborted transactions (Tom)
    EXPLAIN now outputs as a query (Tom)
-   Display sort keys in EXPLAIN (Tom)
+   Display condition expressions and sort keys in EXPLAIN (Tom)
    Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set configuration variables for a
      single transaction (Tom)
    Allow ANALYZE to run in a transaction (Bruce)
@@ -335,7 +350,7 @@ Data Types and Functions
    
 Internationalization
 
-   Add additional encodings (Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese
+   Add additional encodings: Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese
      (TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256), Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC)
      (Eiji Tokuya)
    Enable locale support by default (Peter)
@@ -360,7 +375,7 @@ Server-side Languages
    Change PL/Tcl build to use configured compiler and Makefile.shlib
      (Peter)
    Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible
-     (Tom, Neil)
+     (Neil, Tom)
    Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)
    Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
    Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)
@@ -514,7 +529,7 @@ Contrib
    Add /contrib/tablefunc table function examples (Joe)
    Add /contrib/ltree data type for tree structures (Teodor Sigaev,
      Oleg Bartunov)
-   Move /contrib/pg_controldata into main tree (Bruce)
+   Move /contrib/pg_controldata, pg_resetxlog into main tree (Bruce)
    Fixes to /contrib/cube (Bruno Wolff)
    Improve /contrib/fulltextindex (Christopher)
      _________________________________________________________________
@@ -3511,7 +3526,7 @@ Enhancements
  * pg_dump now output the schema and/or the data, with many fixes to
    enhance completeness.
  * psql used in place of monitor in administration shell scripts.
-   monitor to be depreciated in next release.
+   monitor to be deprecated in next release.
  * date/time functions enhanced
  * NULL insert/update/comparison fixed/enhanced
  * TCL/TK lib and shell fixed to work with both tck7.4/tk4.0 and tcl7.5/tk4.1

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 <appendix id="release">
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ worries about funny characters.
 
   <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
-   <simpara>2002-11-??</simpara>
+   <simpara>2002-11-27</simpara>
   </note>
 
   <sect2>