useful and confuses people who think it is the same as -U. (Eventually
we might want to re-introduce it as being an alias for -U, but that should
not happen until the switch has actually not been there for a few releases.)
Likewise in pg_dump and pg_restore. Per gripe from Robert Treat and
subsequent discussion.
with the logged event. CSV logs are now a first-class citizen along plain
text logs in that they carry much of the same information.
Per complaint from depesz on bug #3799.
hazards. Instead teach these programs to prompt for a password when
necessary, just like all our other programs.
I did not bother to invent -W switches for them, since the return on
investment seems so low.
PQconnectionNeedsPassword function that tells the right thing for whether to
prompt for a password, and improve PQconnectionUsedPassword so that it checks
whether the password used by the connection was actually supplied as a
connection argument, instead of coming from environment or a password file.
Per bug report from Mark Cave-Ayland and subsequent discussion.
< o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
< to defaults
< o -Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
< and sort files
< Monitoring
< ==========
<
< * -Allow server log information to be output as CSV format
< * -Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
< * -Allow user-defined types to accept 'typmod' parameters
<
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-08/msg01142.php
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00012.php
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00149.php
<
< * -Add Globally/Universally Unique Identifier (GUID/UUID)
<
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00209.php
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg00853.php
<
< * -Support a data type with specific enumerated values (ENUM)
< o -Add support for arrays of complex types
< o -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
< * -Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
< * -Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week
< * -Add RESET SESSION command to reset all session state
< o -Make CLUSTER preserve recently-dead tuples per MVCC requirements
< o -Add more logical syntax CLUSTER table USING index;
< support current syntax for backward compatibility
< o -Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor
< o -Add support for MOVE cursors
< o -Allow PL/PythonU to return boolean rather than 1/0
< o -Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather
< than toggle
< o -Add -f to pg_dumpall
< Dependency Checking
< ===================
<
< * -Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change or
< when new ANALYZE statistics are available
< * -Track dependencies in function bodies and recompile/invalidate
< * -Invalidate prepared queries, like INSERT, when the table definition
< is altered
<
< * -Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs
< * -Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
< specifiers
< * -Reduce checkpoint performance degredation by forcing data to disk
< more evenly
< * -Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
< sequential scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning"
< * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers
< * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed,
< and old and new versions are on the same heap page
< * -Reduce XID consumption of read-only queries
< o -Turn on by default
< o -Allow multiple vacuums so large tables do not starve small
< tables
< * -Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb
< with a symlink back to the /data location
< * -Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
< * -Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT # to select high/low value without sort or
< index using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values
< * -Merge xmin/xmax/cmin/cmax back into three header fields
< o -Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields
< * -Move NAMEDATALEN from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h
< * -Fix problem with excessive logging during SSL disconnection
<
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-12/msg00122.php
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00065.php
<
< o -Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
to ensure that the resulting webpages have predictable URLs, instead of
ever-changing numeric IDs. The new contrib docs were the biggest
offender, but some old stuff had the problem too. Also, rename a couple
of new contrib sgml files for consistency's sake.
useful consequence of the former liberal implicit casting to text;
namely that you can feed non-string values to quote_literal() and get
unsurprising results. Per discussion.
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander
Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway
Peter Eisentraut