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Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</>functionto report when

Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</> to report when

the Postgres configuration files were last loaded (George

Gensure)

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Add <function>array_ndims()</>functionto return the number

Add <function>array_ndims()</> to return the number

of dimensions of an array (Robert Haas)

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Add <function>array_length()</>functionto return the length

Add <function>array_length()</> to return the length

of an array for the specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert

Haas, Peter Eisentraut)

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Addfunction<function>unnest()</>, which converts an array to

Add <function>unnest()</>, which converts an array to

individual row values (Tom)

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Add <function>pg_get_keywords()</>functionto return predefined

Add <function>pg_get_keywords()</> to return predefined

parser keywords (Dave Page)

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Addfunction<function>pg_get_functiondef()</> to see a functions

Add <function>pg_get_functiondef()</> to see a functions

definition (Abhijit Menon-Sen)

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Add <function>pg_typeof()</>function to return the data type

Add <function>pg_typeof()</>which returns the data type

of any value (Brendan Jurd)

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Allow the file locations for client<acronym>SSL</>certificates

to be specified(Mark Woodward, Alvaro, Magnus)

Allow the file locations for client certificates to be specified

(Mark Woodward, Alvaro, Magnus)

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Add connection parameter <literal>sslverify</> to control

the verification of the server's<acronym>SSL</>certificate

the verification of the server's certificate

(Magnus)

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Support 64-bittimezone data files (Heikki)

Support 64-bittime zone data files (Heikki)

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Fix bug in handling of thetimezone database when cross-compiling

Fix bug in handling of thetime zone database when cross-compiling

(Richard Evans)

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This allows compile-time control over several compile-time

constants that control how large tables and <acronym>WAL</>

are segmented into separate files and their internal block

sizes

This allows compile-time control over several constants that

affect how tables and <acronym>WAL</> files are segmented and

their internal block sizes.

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Add support for <productname>Sun Studio</> compiler on

Add support forthe<productname>Sun Studio</> compiler on

<productname>Linux</> (Julius Stroffek)

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Append major version number to the gettext domain name, and

for libraries the soname major version number (Peter)

Append the major version number to the <application>gettext</>

domain, and the <literal>soname</> major version number to

libraries (Peter)

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Additional <application>DTrace</> probes (Robert Lor)

Add <application>DTrace</> probes (Robert Lor)

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Add <application>DTrace</> support onMac<application>OS X

Add <application>DTrace</> support on <application>MacOS X

Leopard</> (Robert Lor)

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Add new <type>cstring</> to text conversion functions (Brendan

Jurd, Tom)

Add new <type>cstring</> to<type>text</> conversion functions

(BrendanJurd, Tom)

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Add a hook to allow planner statistics lookup behavior to be

overridden (Simon Riggs)

Add a hook to allowtheplanner statistics lookup behavior to

beoverridden (Simon Riggs)

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builds with parser conflicts(Peter)

(Peter)

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Add<literal>-M</> (query mode) to <filename>/contrib/pgbench</>

Add query mode option to <filename>/contrib/pgbench</>

(Itagaki Takahiro)

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Add <filename>/contrib/citext</> as a case-insensitive,

multibyte-capable text data type (David Wheeler)

multibyte-aware text data type (David Wheeler)

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Make sure <filename>/contrib/dblink</> uses a password supplied

by the user, and not accidentally from the server .pgpass file

by the user, and not accidentally from the server's .pgpass file

(Joe Conway)

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