<!--

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.389 2005/10/05 19:52:22 momjian Exp $

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.390 2005/10/11 21:17:11 tgl Exp $

Typical markup:

<note>

<title>Release date</title>

<simpara>2005-1?-??, Current as of 2005-09-27</simpara>

<simpara>2005-1?-??, Current as of 2005-10-11</simpara>

</note>

<sect2>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Improve spinlock behavior on SMP machines, particularly Opterons (Tom)

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Allow non-consecutive index columns to be used in a multi-column

<listitem>

<para>

Enhance <literal>pg_locks</> display (Tom)

Adjust <literal>pg_stat</> views for bitmap scans (Tom)

</para>

<para>

The meanings of some of the fields have changed slightly.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Enhance <literal>pg_locks</> view (Tom)

</para>

</listitem>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Fix roundoff behavior in timestamp, time, and interval output (Tom)

</para>

<para>

This fixes some cases in which the seconds field would be shown as

<literal>60</> instead of incrementing the higher-order fields.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Add an internal day field to <type>INTERVAL</> so a one day

<title>Source Code Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>

Fix <application>pgxs</> to support building against a relocated

installation

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Add spinlock support for the Itanium processor using Intel

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Improve <filename>/contrib/pgbench</> (Tatsuo)

</para>

<para>

There is now a facility for testing with SQL command scripts given

by the user, instead of only a hard-wired command sequence.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Improve <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marko Kreen)