Since the current version is 1.1, the 1.0 file isn't really needed. We do
need the 1.0--1.1 upgrade file, so people on 1.0 can upgrade.
Per recent discussion on pgsql-hackers.
Since PostgreSQL 9.0, we've emitted a warning message when an operator
named => is created, because the SQL standard now reserves that token
for another use. But we've also shipped such an operator with hstore.
Use of the function hstore(text, text) has been recommended in
preference to =>(text, text). Per discussion, it's now time to take
the next step and stop shipping the operator. This will allow us to
prohibit the use of => as an operator name in a future release if and
when we wish to support the SQL standard use of this token.
The release notes should mention this incompatibility.
Patch by me, reviewed by David Wheeler, Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane.
This isn't fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the
"foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get some
buildfarm cycles on it.
sepgsql is not converted to an extension, mainly because it seems to
require a very nonstandard installation process.
Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane
Remove the 64K limit on the lengths of keys and values within an hstore.
(This changes the on-disk format, but the old format can still be read.)
Add support for btree/hash opclasses for hstore --- this is not so much
for actual indexing purposes as to allow use of GROUP BY, DISTINCT, etc.
Add various other new functions and operators.
Andrew Gierth
with minor editorization by me.
Hstore improvements
* add operation hstore ? text - excat equivalent of exist()
* remove undocumented behaviour of contains operation with NULL value
* now 'key'::text=>NULL returns '"key"=>NULL' instead of NULL
* Add GIN support for contains and exist operations
* Add GiST support for exist operatiion
* improve regression tests
Robert Haas
Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander
Bruce Momjian
Teodor Sigaev
Peter Eisentraut