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| 1 | +PostgreSQL 6.0 beta Thu Dec 26 16:47:43 EST 1996 |
| 2 | +------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from |
| 5 | +previous releases of PostgreSQL. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Major contributors: |
| 8 | +------------------- |
| 9 | +Bruce is Bruce Momjian<maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> |
| 10 | +Bryan is Bryan Henderson<bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net> |
| 11 | +Dan is Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@indirect.com> |
| 12 | +Darren is Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com> |
| 13 | +Edmund is Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> |
| 14 | +Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at> |
| 15 | +Kurt is "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com> |
| 16 | + Martin is Martin S. Utesch <utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de> |
| 17 | +Vadim is "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su> |
| 18 | +Vivek is Vivek Khera <khera@kci.kciLink.com> |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Changes in this release: |
| 21 | +------------------------ |
| 22 | +Restructured object file generation/location(Bryan, Marc) |
| 23 | +Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc) |
| 24 | +Makefile restructuring(Bryan, Marc) |
| 25 | +all functions now have prototypes that are compared against the calls |
| 26 | +unused/uninialized variables corrected |
| 27 | +gcc -Wall compiles cleanly with warnings only from unfixable constructs |
| 28 | +major include file reorganization/reduction(Marc) |
| 29 | +reduced the number of #define's, centeralized #define's |
| 30 | +removed many os-specific #define's |
| 31 | +fixed a few small memory leaks |
| 32 | +removed duplicate system oid's |
| 33 | +overhauled parser/analyze code to properly report errors and increase speed |
| 34 | +properly report errors when INSERT ... SELECT columns did not match |
| 35 | +properly report errors when insert column names were not correct |
| 36 | +minor improvements to rules system |
| 37 | +execute lowercase function names if not found with exact case |
| 38 | +change oid constants used in code to #define names |
| 39 | +Memory leaks (hunt and destroy with tools like Purify(Kurt) |
| 40 | +fix unitialized reads of memory(Kurt) |
| 41 | +fix array over-runs of memory writes(Kurt) |
| 42 | +Change default decimal constant representation from float4 to float8(Bruce) |
| 43 | +Allow libpq to distinguish between text value '' and null(Bruce) |
| 44 | +Starting quote in insert string errors(Bruce) |
| 45 | +ALTER TABLE bug - running postgress process needs to re-read table definition |
| 46 | +Allow non-postgres users with createdb privs to destroydb's |
| 47 | +Prevent SELECT NULL from crashing server (Bruce) |
| 48 | +Fix elusive btree range/non-range bug(Dan) |
| 49 | +Remove duplicate system catalog info or report mismatches(Dan) |
| 50 | +Remove duplicate OIDS in system tables(Dan) |
| 51 | +Prevent postmaster from being run as root |
| 52 | +Implement IN qualifier(Bruce) |
| 53 | +Implement BETWEEN qualifier(Bruce) |
| 54 | +add synonym of != for <>(Bruce) |
| 55 | +add UNIQUE index capability(Dan) |
| 56 | +Re-visit and fix vacuum(Vadim) |
| 57 | +speed up vacuum(Vadim) |
| 58 | +can't shrink tables, pg_time and pg_log(Vadim & Erich) |
| 59 | +allow actual compression, not just reuse on the same page(Vadim) |
| 60 | +allow vacuum to be run on one table or entire database(Bruce) |
| 61 | +Reverse meaning of HBA masks(Bryan) |
| 62 | +Add hostname/user level access control rather than just hostname and user |
| 63 | +Allow restriction on who can create C functions(Bryan) |
| 64 | +Allow installation-configuration option to auto-add all local users(Bryan) |
| 65 | +Allow restriction on who can do backend COPY(Bryan) |
| 66 | +allow COPY from the frontend(Bryan) |
| 67 | +Secure Authentication of local users(Bryan) |
| 68 | +Idend authentication of local users(Bryan) |
| 69 | +Change debug level 2 to print queries only, changed debug heading layout(Bruce) |
| 70 | +Reduce size of regression diffs, remove timezone name difference(Bruce) |
| 71 | +Remove compile-time parameters to enable binary distributions(Bryan) |
| 72 | +Merge bsdi_2_1 to bsdi(Bruce) |
| 73 | +pg_dump(Bruce) |
| 74 | +allow dump of oid's |
| 75 | +create indexes after tables are loaded for speed |
| 76 | +pg_dump -d now handles NULL's properly |
| 77 | +psql(Bruce) |
| 78 | +fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs |
| 79 | +changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes |
| 80 | +allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line |
| 81 | +\h and \? is now readable |
| 82 | +\g filename now works |
| 83 | +updated help syntax |
| 84 | +char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output |
| 85 | +return code now more accurate(Bryan?) |
| 86 | +new config.h file(Marc, Bryan) |
| 87 | +fix permissions on lo_export()(Bruce) |
| 88 | +Make now stops on compile failure(Bryan) |
| 89 | +submiting an empty query now returns empty status, not just " " query(Bruce) |
| 90 | +several fixes for queries that crashed the backend |
| 91 | +portability additions, including Ultrix, DG/UX, AIX, and Solaris |
| 92 | +fix for pg_log size explosion |
| 93 | +decoupled sparc and solaris defines(Kurt) |
| 94 | +new options to initdb(Bryan) |
| 95 | +allow asserts to be disabled easly from Makefile.global(Bruce) |
| 96 | +allow "select oid,* from table" |
| 97 | +NOTIFY fixes |
| 98 | +PG_VERSION now set to 6.0 and used by postmaster |
| 99 | +libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce) |
| 100 | +pginterface additions for NULL values(Bruce) |
| 101 | +fixed ALTER TABLE ... char(3) bug(Bruce) |
| 102 | +fixed output of group acl permissions |
| 103 | +new asserts for run-checking |
| 104 | +name change from Postgres95 to PostgreSQL |
| 105 | +monitor program removed |
| 106 | +fix for hash indexes on some types like time and date |
| 107 | +gist now included in the distrubution(Marc) |
| 108 | +array fixes |
| 109 | +fixes for aggregate/GROUP processing, allow 'select sum(func(x),sum(x+y) from z' |
| 110 | +libpq++ improvements |
| 111 | +Allow BY,ORDER BY to specify columns by number, or by non-alias table.column(Bruce) |
| 112 | +Allow GROUP BY to use alias column name(Bruce) |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | + |
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