@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ Make char_length()/octet_length including trailing blanks (Tom)
135135Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (Peter E)
136136Fix memory leak in odbc driver (Nick Gorham)
137137Fix r-tree index optimizer selectivity (Thomas)
138+ New lztext data type for compressed text fields
139+ Larger views/rules supported
138140
139141Enhancements
140142------------
@@ -239,7 +241,7 @@ Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean
239241NUMERIC now accepts scientific notation (Tom)
240242NUMERIC to int4 rounds (Tom)
241243Convert float4/8 to NUMERIC properly (Tom)
242- New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions
244+ New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions (Tatsuo
243245Libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
244246Improve conversion of types in casts that don't specify a length
245247New plperl internal programming language (Mark Hollomon)
@@ -284,6 +286,8 @@ Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state (Hiroshi)
284286Allow negation of a negative number in all cases
285287Add ecpg descriptors
286288Allow CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT f1::char(8) FROM tbl
289+ New libpq functions PQsetClientEncoding(), PQclientEncoding() (Tatsuo)
290+ Add support for SJIS user defined characters (Tatsuo)
287291
288292Source Tree Changes
289293-------------------
@@ -311,6 +315,8 @@ Remove lextest, no longer needed (Peter E)
311315Fix for libpq and psql on Win32 (Magnus)
312316Internally change datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval (Thomas)
313317Fix for plpgsql on BSDI
318+ Add SQL_ASCII test case to the regression test (Tatsuo)
319+ configure --with-mb now deprecated (Tatsuo)
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315321
316322Release 6.5.3