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<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2009-XX-XX, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-03-16</simpara>
+ <simpara>2009-XX-XX, ITEMS CURRENT AS OF 2009-03-16</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
<listitem>
<para>
- Disable appending of the epoch date/time when '%' escapes are missing in
- log_filename (Robert Haas)
+ Disable appending of the epoch date/time when no '%' escapes are
+ present in log_filename (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
- This change was made because some users wanted a consistent log
- filename.
+ This change was made because some users wanted a constant log filename,
+ for use with an external log rotation tool.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Throw an error of an escape character is the last character in a LIKE
- pattern (nothing to escape) (Tom)
+ Throw an error if an escape character is the last character in a LIKE
+ pattern (it has nothing to escape) (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove ~=~ and ~<>~ operators used for LIKE index comparisons (Tom) bjm:
- needed?
+ Remove ~=~ and ~<>~ operators used for LIKE index comparisons
+ (Tom) bjm: needed?
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add postgresql.conf setting cursor_tuple_fraction to control the
+ Add postgresql.conf setting cursor_tuple_fraction to control the
fraction of a cursor's rows expected to be requested by the user (Robert
Hell)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- OFFSET num {ROW|ROWS} FETCH {FIRST|NEXT} [num] {ROW|ROWS} ONLY.
+ OFFSET num {ROW|ROWS} FETCH {FIRST|NEXT} [num] {ROW|ROWS} ONLY.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- New syntax supported (these formerly required "ALTER TABLE")
+ New syntax supported (these formerly required "ALTER TABLE")
</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT
+ ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- ALTER VIEW OWNER TO
+ ALTER VIEW OWNER TO
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA
+ ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Previously EXPLAIN VERBOSE output an internal representation of the
- output columns.
+ query plan. (That behavior is now available via debug_print_plan.)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have EXPLAIN honor debug_print_plan (Tom) bjm: verify behavior, this
- replaces EXPLAIN VERBOSE?
+ Have EXPLAIN honor debug_print_plan (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Dramatically improve the speed of building and accessing hash indexes
- (Tom Raney, Shreya Bhargava, Kenneth Marshall, Tom)
+ (Tom Raney, Shreya Bhargava, Kenneth Marshall)
</para>
<para>
- This allows hash indexes to be often faster than btree indexes.
+ This allows hash indexes to be sometimes faster than btree indexes.
However, hash indexes are still not crash-safe.
</para>
</listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support DETAIL and HINT fields
+ Support DETAIL and HINT fields
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support SQLSTATE error codes
+ Support SQLSTATE error codes
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support an exception name parameter
+ Support an exception name parameter
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow RAISE without parameters in an exception
- block to rethrow the current error
+ Allow RAISE without parameters in an exception
+ block to rethrow the current error
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>