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<appendix id="release">
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<para>
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<programlisting>
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- Last updated from CVS logs: 2000-12-11
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+ Last updated from CVS logs: 2001-01-29
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Bug Fixes
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Fix FOR UPDATE inside views and subselects (Tom)
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Fix OVERLAPS operators conform to SQL92 spec regarding NULLs (Tom)
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Fix lpad() and rpad() to handle length less than input string (Tom)
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+ Fix use of NOTIFY in some rules (Tom)
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+ Overhaul btree code (Tom)
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+ Fix NOT NULL use in Pl/PgSQL variables (Tom)
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+ Overhaul GIST code (Oleg)
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+ Fix CLUSTER to preserve constraints and column default (Tom)
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+ Improved deadlock detection handling (Tom)
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+ Allow multiple SERIAL columns in a table (Tom)
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Enhancements
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Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
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Function manager overhaul (Tom)
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Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes(Tom)
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Improve CLUSTER(Tom)
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- Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E )
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+ Improve ps status display for more platforms(Marc )
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Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message(Ross)
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JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
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Gunnar)
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Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
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Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
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- pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
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+ pg_dump uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
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- Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
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+ Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify username (Peter E)
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Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP keyword when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
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New memory leak checker (Karel)
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- New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
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+ New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS and SET DefaultXactIsoLevel (Thomas, Peter E )
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Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
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Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
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New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
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(David J. MacKenzie)
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Allow CREATE DATABASE to specify template database (Tom)
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+ New pg_dump --globals-only option (Peter E)
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+ New utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL (Thomas)
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+ New /contrib/rserv replication toolkit (Vadim)
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+ New file format for COPY BINARY (Tom)
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+ New /contrib/oid2name to map numeric files to table names (B Palmer)
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+ New "idle in transaction" ps status message (Marc)
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+ Update to pgaccess 0.98.7 (Constantin Teodorescu)
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Types
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Fix INET/CIDR type ordering and add new functions (Tom)
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Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
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New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
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- New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom, Peter E )
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+ New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom)
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CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom)
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New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov)
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+ Improved round(numeric) handling (Tom)
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+ Fix CIDR output formatting (Tom)
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+ New CIDR abbrev() function (Tom)
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SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
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- New configure --enable-syslog option (Peter E )
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New BSDI README (Bruce)
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configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
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Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
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Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
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New template0 database that contains no user additions(Tom)
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+ New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
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+ Allow *BSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
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+ Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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