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Current maintainer:Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)

Last updated:Thu Nov 412:09:41 EST 2004

Last updated:Thu Nov 422:03:07 EST 2004

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* Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it

* Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values

* Allow INET subnet tests with non-constants to be indexed

* Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() functionality

* Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp()

functionality

Current CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current

transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock time. This will

granularity used for the hash algorithm.

* Allow accurate statistics to be collected on indexes with more than

one column

one column or expression indexes, perhaps using per=index statistics

* Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation

* Allow binaries to be statically linked so they are more easily relocated

* Move some /contrib modules out to their own project sites

* Remove Win32 rename/unlink looping if unnecessary

* Remove kerberos4 from source tree?

* Win32

o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory?