* The ability to index more than one column in a table with a single
trigger.
* All uses of sprintf changed to snprintf to prevent users from crashing
Postgres.
* Error messages made more consistent
* Some changes made to bring it into line with coding requirements for
triggers specified in the docs. (ie. check you're a trigger before casting
your context)
* The perl script that generate indices has been updated to support indexing
multiple columns in a table.
* Fairly well tested in our development environment indexing a food
database's brand and description fields. The size of the fti index is
around 300,000 rows.
* All docs and examples upgraded. This includes specifying more efficient
index usage that was specified before, better examples that don't produce
duplicates, etc.
Christopher Kings-Lynne & Brett
are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively. By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory. There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.
in pghackers list. Support for oldstyle internal functions is gone
(no longer needed, since conversion is complete) and pg_language entry
'internal' now implies newstyle call convention. pg_language entry
'newC' is gone; both old and newstyle dynamically loaded C functions
are now called language 'C'. A newstyle function must be identified
by an associated info routine. See src/backend/utils/fmgr/README.
inclusion in pgsql. I have included a README which should be enough
to start using it, plus a BENCH file that describes some timings
I have done.
Please have a look at it, and if you think everything is OK, I
would like it seen included in the contrib-section of pgsql.
I don't think I will do any more work in this, but maybe it inspires
somebody else to improve on it.
Maarten Boekhold