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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
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Major changes in this release:
Schemas
Schemas allow users to create objects in their own namespace so
two people or applications can have tables with the same name.
There is also a public schema for shared tables. Table/index
creation can be restricted by removing permissions on the
public schema.
Schemas allow users to create objects in separate namespaces,
so two people or applications can have tables with the same
name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
Table/index creation can be restricted by removing permissions
on the public schema.
Drop Column
PostgreSQL now supports the ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
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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
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* 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
improved.
* Several "postgresql.conf" logging parameters have been renamed.
* LIMIT #,# has been disabled; use LIMIT # OFFSET #.
* "INSERT" statements with column lists must specify all values;
e.g., INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1') is now invalid.
* An index is now not automatically created for serial columns.
* "INSERT" statements with column lists must specify a value for
each specified column. For example, INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2)
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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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(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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
_________________________________________________________________
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* 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">
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<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2002-11-??</simpara>
<simpara>2002-11-27</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>