Changes
-2002-09-23
+2002-10-23
Server Operation
================
Add GUC default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets (Neil)
Use local buffer cache for temporary tables so no WAL overhead (Tom)
Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall, Tom)
+Improved WAL write concurrency (Tom)
Privileges
==========
Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
Add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
Add CREATE OR REPLACE RULE (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
+Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more accurate values (Tom)
Utility Commands
================
New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)
Add smart quoting, portability improvements to pg_dump output (Peter)
Dump serial columns out as SERIAL (Tom)
-Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter)
+Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner, Bruce)
Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints (Rod)
Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)
Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on
Overhaul pg_dumpall (Peter)
Allow REINDEX of TOAST tables (Tom)
Implemented START TRANSACTION, per SQL99 (Neil)
+Fix rare index corruption when a page split affects bulk delete (Tom)
+Fix ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for inheritance (Alvaro Herrera)
Data Types and Functions
========================
Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)
Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)
+Remove some memory leaks (Nigel J. Andrews, Tom)
Psql
====
Allow psql \d to show foreign keys (Rod)
Fix \? to honor \pset pager (Bruce)
Have psql reports its version number on startup (Tom)
+Allow \copy to specify column names (Tom)
Libpq
=====
Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)
Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)
Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Tom)
+Bison >= 1.50 now required for developer builds
Source Code
===========
#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for PostgreSQL 7.3b2.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for PostgreSQL 7.3b3.
#
# Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>.
#
# Identity of this package.
PACKAGE_NAME='PostgreSQL'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='postgresql'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='7.3b2'
-PACKAGE_STRING='PostgreSQL 7.3b2'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='7.3b3'
+PACKAGE_STRING='PostgreSQL 7.3b3'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org'
ac_unique_file="src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c"
# Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
# This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures PostgreSQL 7.3b2 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures PostgreSQL 7.3b3 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
case $ac_init_help in
- short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of PostgreSQL 7.3b2:";;
+ short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of PostgreSQL 7.3b3:";;
esac
cat <<\_ACEOF
test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit 0
if $ac_init_version; then
cat <<\_ACEOF
-PostgreSQL configure 7.3b2
+PostgreSQL configure 7.3b3
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Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
-It was created by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b2, which was
+It was created by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b3, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53. Invocation command line was
$ $0 $@
} >&5
cat >&5 <<_CSEOF
-This file was extended by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b2, which was
+This file was extended by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b3, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53. Invocation command line was
CONFIG_FILES = $CONFIG_FILES
cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF
ac_cs_version="\\
-PostgreSQL config.status 7.3b2
+PostgreSQL config.status 7.3b3
configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53,
with options \\"`echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"
dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v 1.214 2002/10/24 01:33:50 momjian Exp $
+dnl $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v 1.215 2002/10/24 03:03:37 momjian Exp $
dnl
dnl Developers, please strive to achieve this order:
dnl
dnl Texinfo. Use this sorcery to use "docdir" instead of "infodir".
m4_define([info], [doc])
m4_define([infodir], [docdir])
-AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [7.3b2], [pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org])
+AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [7.3b3], [pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org])
m4_undefine([infodir])
m4_undefine([info])
AC_SUBST(docdir)
-(2002-02-04)
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