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<sect1 id="release-9-0">

<title>Release 9.0</title>

<sect2>

<title>Migration to Version 9.0</title>

<para>CURRENT AS OF 2010-05-12</para>

<para>CURRENT AS OF 2010-06-03</para>

<para>

A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is

</para>

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<listitem>

<para>

Allow <link linkend="auth-ldap"><acronym>LDAP</></link>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Pass trusted SSL root certificate names to the client so the client

can return an appropriate client certificate (Craig Ringer)

</para>

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</itemizedlist>

</sect4>

<para>

For example, if a function is defined to take parameters <literal>a</>

and <literal>b</>, it can be called with <literal>func(7 AS a, 12

AS b)</> or <literal>func(12 AS b, 7 AS a)</>.

and <literal>b</>, it can be called with <literal>func(a := 7, b

:= 12)</> or <literal>func(b := 12, a := 7)</>.

</para>

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</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Load SSL certificate chain (Tom Lane)

</para>

<para>

This improves handling of indirectly-signed SSL client

certificates.

</para>

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</itemizedlist>

</sect4>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

Support <type>long long</> types on platforms that already have 64-bit

<type>long</>s (Michael Meskes))

</para>

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</itemizedlist>

<sect5>

<productname>C++</> usage difficult in backend code, there are

still other complexities when using <productname>C++</> for backend

functions. <literal>extern "C" { }</> is still necessary in

appropriate places.

appropriate places (see <xref linkend="extend-Cpp">).

</para>

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