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Postgres quick Installation Guide.

- thomas 1998-10-26

and is almost certainly adequate for a first installation. But you may want to

do an initial installation up to the point of unpacking the source tree

and installing documentation, and then print or browse the

<citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.</para>

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&release;

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<entry>2000-02-18</entry>

<entry>MIPSPro 7.3.1.1m N32 build.

<ulink url="hxpro@cinesite.co.uk">Kevin Wheatley</ulink></entry>

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<ulink url="mailto:horak@sit.plzen-city.cz">Daniel Horak</ulink>)</entry>

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<chapter id="release">

Deprecate ':' and ';' operators

Allow vacuum of temporary tables

Disallow inherited columns with the same name as new columns

Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted(Hiroshi)

Recover or force failure when disk space is exhausted(Hiroshi)

Fix INSERT INTO ... SELECT with AS columns matching result columns

Fix INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns(Tom)

Fix CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) with INSERT(Tom)

Fix INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target columns not source columns(Tom)

Fix CREATE TABLE test (a char(5) DEFAULT text '', b int4) with INSERT(Tom)

Fix UNION with LIMIT

Fix CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2

Fix CREATE TABLE test(col char(2) DEFAULT user)

Fix mismatched types in CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT

Fix SELECT * FROM pg_class where oid in (0,-1)

Fix SELECT COUNT('asdf') FROM pg_class WHERE oid=12

Prevent user who can create databases can modifying pg_database table(Peter E)

Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)(Tom)

Fix INSERT of 0.0 into DECIMAL(4,4) field(Tom)

Prevent user who can create databases can modifying pg_database table(Peter E)

Fix btree to give a useful elog when key > 1/2 (page - overhead)(Tom)

Fix INSERT of 0.0 into DECIMAL(4,4) field(Tom)

Enhancements

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New SET FSYNC command (Massimo)

Allow pg_descriptions when creating tables

Allow pg_descriptions when creating types, columns, and functions

Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters(Peter E)

Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null](Peter E)

Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters(Peter E)

Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null](Peter E)

Types

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