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Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
Function manager overhaul (Tom)
-Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes(Tom)
-Improve CLUSTER(Tom)
-Improve ps status display for more platforms(Marc)
-Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message(Ross)
+Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes (Tom)
+Improve CLUSTER (Tom)
+Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E, Marc)
+Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message (Ross)
JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
Gunnar)
Grand Unified Configuration scheme/GUC. Many options can now be set in
Michael Fork)
Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
-pg_dump uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
+pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
-Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify username (Peter E)
+Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP keyword when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
New memory leak checker (Karel)
-New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS and SET DefaultXactIsoLevel (Thomas, Peter E)
+New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E)
New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
-New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom)
+New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom, Peter E)
CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom)
New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov)
Improved round(numeric) handling (Tom)
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New function manager call conventions (Tom)
SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
-New configure --enable-syslog option (Marc)
+New configure --enable-syslog option (Peter E)
New BSDI README (Bruce)
configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson)
Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
-New template0 database that contains no user additions(Tom)
+New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
Allow *BSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
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Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
Function manager overhaul (Tom)
-Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes(Tom)
-Improve CLUSTER(Tom)
-Improve ps status display for more platforms(Marc)
-Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message(Ross)
+Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes (Tom)
+Improve CLUSTER (Tom)
+Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E, Marc)
+Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message (Ross)
JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
Gunnar)
Grand Unified Configuration scheme/GUC. Many options can now be set in
Michael Fork)
Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
-pg_dump uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
+pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
-Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify username (Peter E)
+Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP keyword when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
New memory leak checker (Karel)
-New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS and SET DefaultXactIsoLevel (Thomas, Peter E)
+New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E)
New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
-New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom)
+New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom, Peter E)
CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom)
New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov)
Improved round(numeric) handling (Tom)
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New function manager call conventions (Tom)
SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
-New configure --enable-syslog option (Marc)
+New configure --enable-syslog option (Peter E)
New BSDI README (Bruce)
configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson)
Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
-New template0 database that contains no user additions(Tom)
+New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
Allow *BSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)