@@ -132,8 +132,7 @@ New postgresql.conf parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)
132132New postgresql.conf time out parameter for client authentication (Tom)
133133New pg_ctl 'reload' option (Tom)
134134Add /contrib/intarray boolean queries, fixes (Oleg Bartunov)
135- Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)
136- 'NOW' returns time in milliseconds
135+ New postgresql.conf to set maximum open files (Tom)
137136
138137Types
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@@ -147,7 +146,12 @@ Bytea comparison improvements, \### now requires three octal digits (Joe Conway)
147146Make trim/ltrim/rtrim/btrim/lpad/rpad/translate() multibyte aware (Tatsuo)
148147Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)
149148Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)
150-
149+ Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)
150+ now() returns time in milliseconds (Thomas)
151+ New TIMEZONE WITHOUT TIMEZONE data types (Thomas)
152+ Add ISO date/time specification with 'T', yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (Thomas)
153+ New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)
154+ Fix TID sequential scans (H
151155Performance
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153157Optimizer improvements (Tom)
@@ -156,6 +160,9 @@ Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)
156160Cache improvements (Tom)
157161IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)
158162Load pg_hba.conf only on startup and SIGHUP (Bruce)
163+ Rtree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)
164+ Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)
165+ Btree splits more efficient (Tom)
159166
160167Interfaces
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174181Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)
175182Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)
176183Databasemetadata.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason Davies)
184+ Databasemetadata.getColumn() performance improvement (Jeroen van Vianen)
177185Jdbc1 and jdbc2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)
178186Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)
179187Array fixes (Greg Zoller)