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diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
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--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
-                                 Release Notes
 
+                               Release Notes
+
+                               Release 7.2.7
+
+     Release date: 2005-01-31
+
+   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.6, including several
+   security-related issues.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                         Migration to version 7.2.7
+
+   A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+     * Disallow "LOAD" to non-superusers
+       On platforms that will automatically execute initialization
+       functions of a shared library (this includes at least Windows and
+       ELF-based Unixen), "LOAD" can be used to make the server execute
+       arbitrary code. Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.
+     * Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris Jurka)
+     * Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too many
+       parameters (Neil)
+     * Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins
+       The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the
+       same as the left input. This could not only deliver mis-sorted
+       output to the user, but in case of nested merge joins could give
+       outright wrong answers.
+     * Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN datestyles
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
                                Release 7.2.6
 
@@ -67,666 +98,670 @@
 
      Release date: 2003-01-30
 
-   This  has  a  variety  of fixes from 7.2.3, including fixes to prevent
-   possible data loss.
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.3, including
+   fixes to prevent possible data loss.
      _________________________________________________________________
 
                          Migration to version 7.2.4
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*.
      _________________________________________________________________
 
                                   Changes
 
-   Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found"
-	error
-   Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function  (Bruce)
-   Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint
-	complete
-   Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins
-   Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough
-	to be toasted
-   Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being
-	recognized
-   Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()
-	(Neil)
-   Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()
+     * Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was
+       found" error
+     * Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)
+     * Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking
+       checkpoint complete
+     * Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins
+     * Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough to
+       be toasted
+     * Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being
+       recognized
+     * Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()
+       (Neil)
+     * Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(),
+       lseg_center()
      _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 7.2.3
+                               Release 7.2.3
 
      Release date: 2002-10-01
 
-   This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.2, including fixes to prevent
-   possible data loss.
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.2, including
+   fixes to prevent possible data loss.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                         Migration to version 7.2.3
 
-Migration to version 7.2.3
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
+                                  Changes
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     * Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
+     * Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info
+       (Tom)
+     * Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
+     * Fix possible hang during server shutdown
+     * Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
+     * Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Changes
+                               Release 7.2.2
 
- Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
- Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)
- Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
- Fix possible hang during server shutdown
- Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
- Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
+     Release date: 2002-08-23
 
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.1.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                         Migration to version 7.2.2
 
-                                 Release 7.2.2
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     Release date: 2002-08-23
+                                  Changes
 
-   This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.1, including the security
-   problems reported on BUGTRAQ.
+     * Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)
+     * Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)
+     * Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f
+       (Tatsuo)
+     * Fix for psql and pg_dump crashing when invoked with non-existent
+       long options (Tatsuo)
+     * Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)
+     * Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)
+     * Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)
+     * Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)
+     * contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)
+     * Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)
+     * Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)
+     * Fix for crash with long DATA strings (Thomas, Neil)
+     * Fix for repeat(), lpad(), rpad() and long strings (Neil)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                               Release 7.2.1
 
-Migration to version 7.2.2
+     Release date: 2002-03-21
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                         Migration to version 7.2.1
 
-Changes
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
- Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
- Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)
- Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f (Tatsuo)
- Fix for psql and pg_dump crashing when invoked with non-existent long 
-   options (Tatsuo)
- Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)
- Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)
- Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)
- Fix for usage of partial indexes for relations other than first in
-   joins (Tom)
- Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)
- Contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)
- Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)
- Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)
- Fix for buffer overrun in handling long datetime input (Thomas, Neil)
- Fix for buffer overrun in repeat() (Neil)
- Fix for buffer overrun in lpad() and rpad() with multibyte (Neil)
- Fix for buffer overrun in SET TIME ZONE and TZ env var (Neil)
+                                  Changes
 
+     * Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash
+       (Tom)
+     * Fix pgaccess kanji-conversion key binding (Tatsuo)
+     * Optimizer improvements (Tom)
+     * Cash I/O improvements (Tom)
+     * New Russian FAQ
+     * Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)
+     * Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)
+     * Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names
+       (Tom)
+     * Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules
+       (Tom)
+     * Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)
+     * Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds
+       (Tatsuo)
+     * Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)
+     * contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)
+     * contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for an
+       additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)
+     * Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)
+     * Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                Release 7.2
 
-                                 Release 7.2.1
+     Release date: 2002-02-04
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     Release date: 2002-03-21
+                                  Overview
 
-   This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.
+   This release improves PostgreSQL for use in high-volume applications.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   Major changes in this release:
 
-Migration to version 7.2.1
+   VACUUM
+          Vacuuming no longer locks tables, thus allowing normal user
+          access during the vacuum. A new "VACUUM FULL" command does
+          old-style vacuum by locking the table and shrinking the on-disk
+          copy of the table.
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.
+   Transactions
+          There is no longer a problem with installations that exceed
+          four billion transactions.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   OIDs
+          OIDs are now optional. Users can now create tables without OIDs
+          for cases where OID usage is excessive.
 
-Changes
+   Optimizer
+          The system now computes histogram column statistics during
+          "ANALYZE", allowing much better optimizer choices.
 
- Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash (Tom)
- Fix pgaccess kanji-coversion key binding (Tatsuo)
- Optimizer improvements (Tom)
- cash I/O improvements (Tom)
- New Russian FAQ
- Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)
- Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)
- Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names (Tom)
- Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules (Tom)
- Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)
- Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds (Tatsuo)
- Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)
- contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)
- contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for
-   an additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)
- Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)
- Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
-     
+   Security
+          A new MD5 encryption option allows more secure storage and
+          transfer of passwords. A new Unix-domain socket authentication
+          option is available on Linux and BSD systems.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   Statistics
+          Administrators can use the new table access statistics module
+          to get fine-grained information about table and index usage.
 
-                                  Release 7.2
+   Internationalization
+          Program and library messages can now be displayed in several
+          languages.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     Release date: 2002-02-04
+                          Migration to version 7.2
 
-Overview
+   A dump/restore using "pg_dump" is required for those wishing to
+   migrate data from any previous release.
 
-   This release improves PostgreSQL for use in high-volume applications.
+   Observe the following incompatibilities:
 
-   Major changes in this release:
+     * The semantics of the "VACUUM" command have changed in this
+       release. You may wish to update your maintenance procedures
+       accordingly.
+     * In this release, comparisons using = NULL will always return false
+       (or NULL, more precisely). Previous releases automatically
+       transformed this syntax to IS NULL. The old behavior can be
+       re-enabled using a "postgresql.conf" parameter.
+     * The "pg_hba.conf" and "pg_ident.conf" configuration is now only
+       reloaded after receiving a SIGHUP signal, not with each
+       connection.
+     * The function "octet_length()" now returns the uncompressed data
+       length.
+     * The date/time value 'current' is no longer available. You will
+       need to rewrite your applications.
+     * The timestamp(), time(), and interval() functions are no longer
+       available. Instead of timestamp(), use timestamp 'string' or CAST.
+
+   The SELECT ... LIMIT #,# syntax will be removed in the next release.
+   You should change your queries to use separate LIMIT and OFFSET
+   clauses, e.g. LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   VACUUM
+                                  Changes
 
-           Vacuuming no longer locks tables, thus allowing normal user access
-           during the vacuum. A new "VACUUM FULL" command does old-style
-           vacuum by locking the table and shrinking the on-disk copy of the
-           table.
+Server Operation
+
+     * Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce)
+     * Delete orphaned temporary files on postmaster startup (Bruce)
+     * Added unique indexes to some system tables (Tom)
+     * System table operator reorganization (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor
+       Sigaev, Tom)
+     * Renamed pg_log to pg_clog (Tom)
+     * Enable SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to kill backends (Jan)
+     * Removed compile-time limit on number of backends (Tom)
+     * Better cleanup for semaphore resource failure (Tatsuo, Tom)
+     * Allow safe transaction ID wraparound (Tom)
+     * Removed OIDs from some system tables (Tom)
+     * Removed "triggered data change violation" error check (Tom)
+     * SPI portal creation of prepared/saved plans (Jan)
+     * Allow SPI column functions to work for system columns (Tom)
+     * Long value compression improvement (Tom)
+     * Statistics collector for table, index access (Jan)
+     * Truncate extra-long sequence names to a reasonable value (Tom)
+     * Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)
+     * Fix TID sequential scans (Hiroshi)
+     * Superuser ID now fixed at 1 (Peter E)
+     * New pg_ctl "reload" option (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   Transactions
+Performance
+
+     * Optimizer improvements (Tom)
+     * New histogram column statistics for optimizer (Tom)
+     * Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)
+     * Cache improvements (Tom)
+     * IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)
+     * Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)
+     * Keep relcache entries for index access support functions (Tom)
+     * Allow better selectivity with NaN and infinities in NUMERIC (Tom)
+     * R-tree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)
+     * B-tree splits more efficient (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           There is no longer a problem with installations that exceed four
-           billion transactions.
+Privileges
+
+     * Change UPDATE, DELETE privileges to be distinct (Peter E)
+     * New REFERENCES, TRIGGER privileges (Peter E)
+     * Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user at a time (Peter E)
+     * New has_table_privilege() function (Joe Conway)
+     * Allow non-superuser to vacuum database (Tom)
+     * New SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command (Peter E)
+     * Fix bug in privilege modifications on newly created tables (Tom)
+     * Disallow access to pg_statistic for non-superuser, add
+       user-accessible views (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   OID's
+Client Authentication
+
+     * Fork postmaster before doing authentication to prevent hangs
+       (Peter E)
+     * Add ident authentication over Unix domain sockets on Linux, *BSD
+       (Helge Bahmann, Oliver Elphick, Teodor Sigaev, Bruce)
+     * Add a password authentication method that uses MD5 encryption
+       (Bruce)
+     * Allow encryption of stored passwords using MD5 (Bruce)
+     * PAM authentication (Dominic J. Eidson)
+     * Load pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf only on startup and SIGHUP
+       (Bruce)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           OID's are now optional. Users can now create tables without OID's
-           for cases where OID usage is excessive.
+Server Configuration
 
-   Optimizer
+     * Interpretation of some time zone abbreviations as Australian
+       rather than North American now settable at run time (Bruce)
+     * New parameter to set default transaction isolation level (Peter E)
+     * New parameter to enable conversion of "expr = NULL" into "expr IS
+       NULL", off by default (Peter E)
+     * New parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)
+     * New parameter to set client authentication timeout (Tom)
+     * New parameter to set maximum number of open files (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           The system now computes histogram column statistics during
-           "ANALYZE", allowing much better optimizer choices.
+Queries
+
+     * Statements added by INSERT rules now execute after the INSERT
+       (Jan)
+     * Prevent unadorned relation names in target list (Bruce)
+     * NULLs now sort after all normal values in ORDER BY (Tom)
+     * New IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN Boolean tests (Tom)
+     * New SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode (Tom)
+     * New EXPLAIN ANALYZE command that shows run times and row counts
+       (Martijn van Oosterhout)
+     * Fix problem with LIMIT and subqueries (Tom)
+     * Fix for LIMIT, DISTINCT ON pushed into subqueries (Tom)
+     * Fix nested EXCEPT/INTERSECT (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   Security
+Schema Manipulation
+
+     * Fix SERIAL in temporary tables (Bruce)
+     * Allow temporary sequences (Bruce)
+     * Sequences now use int8 internally (Tom)
+     * New SERIAL8 creates int8 columns with sequences, default still
+       SERIAL4 (Tom)
+     * Make OIDs optional using WITHOUT OIDS (Tom)
+     * Add %TYPE syntax to CREATE TYPE (Ian Lance Taylor)
+     * Add ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT for CHECK constraints
+       (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
+     * New CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to alter existing function
+       (preserving the function OID) (Gavin Sherry)
+     * Add ALTER TABLE / ADD [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ] (Christopher
+       Kings-Lynne)
+     * Allow column renaming in views
+     * Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes
+       (Brent Verner)
+     * Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited
+       tables (Stephan Szabo)
+     * ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly
+       (Brent Verner)
+     * DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype
+       (Tom)
+     * Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)
+     * Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg
+       Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)
+     * Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           A new MD5 encryption option allows more secure storage and
-           transfer of passwords. A new Unix-domain socket authentication
-           option is available on Linux and BSD systems.
+Utility Commands
+
+     * Add RESET ALL, SHOW ALL (Marko Kreen)
+     * CREATE/ALTER USER/GROUP now allow options in any order (Vince)
+     * Add LOCK A, B, C functionality (Neil Padgett)
+     * New ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER USER (Bruce)
+     * New light-weight VACUUM does not lock table; old semantics are
+       available as VACUUM FULL (Tom)
+     * Disable COPY TO/FROM on views (Bruce)
+     * COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one character (Tom)
+     * VACUUM warning about index tuples fewer than heap now only appears
+       when appropriate (Martijn van Oosterhout)
+     * Fix privilege checks for CREATE INDEX (Tom)
+     * Disallow inappropriate use of CREATE/DROP INDEX/TRIGGER/VIEW (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   Statistics
+Data Types and Functions
+
+     * SUM(), AVG(), COUNT() now uses int8 internally for speed (Tom)
+     * Add convert(), convert2() (Tatsuo)
+     * New function bit_length() (Peter E)
+     * Make the "n" in CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) represents letters, not bytes
+       (Tatsuo)
+     * CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)
+     * BIT VARYING now rejects bit strings that are too long (Peter E)
+     * BIT now rejects bit strings that do not match declared size (Peter
+       E)
+     * INET, CIDR text conversion functions (Alex Pilosov)
+     * INET, CIDR operators << and <<= indexable (Alex Pilosov)
+     * Bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number
+     * Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, <>, >, >=, <, and
+       <=
+     * Bytea now supports B-tree indexes
+     * Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT
+       LIKE...ESCAPE
+     * Bytea now supports concatenation
+     * New bytea functions: position, substring, trim, btrim, and length
+     * New encode() function mode, "escaped", converts minimally escaped
+       bytea to/from text
+     * Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)
+     * Add pg_client_encoding() function (Tatsuo)
+     * now() returns time with millisecond precision (Thomas)
+     * New TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE data type (Thomas)
+     * Add ISO date/time specification with "T", yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
+       (Thomas)
+     * New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)
+     * Add precision to TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL data types (Thomas)
+     * Modify type coercion logic to attempt binary-compatible functions
+       first (Tom)
+     * New encode() function installed by default (Marko Kreen)
+     * Improved to_*() conversion functions (Karel Zak)
+     * Optimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
+     * New functions in contrib/pgcrypto: crypt(), hmac(), encrypt(),
+       gen_salt() (Marko Kreen)
+     * Correct description of translate() function (Bruce)
+     * Add INTERVAL argument for SET TIME ZONE (Thomas)
+     * Add INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH (etc.) syntax (Thomas)
+     * Optimize length functions when using single-byte encodings
+       (Tatsuo)
+     * Fix path_inter, path_distance, path_length, dist_ppath to handle
+       closed paths (Curtis Barrett, Tom)
+     * octet_length(text) now returns non-compressed length (Tatsuo,
+       Bruce)
+     * Handle "July" full name in date/time literals (Greg Sabino
+       Mullane)
+     * Some datatype() function calls now evaluated differently
+     * Add support for Julian and ISO time specifications (Thomas)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           Administrators can use the new table access statistics module to
-           get fine-grained information about table and index usage.
+Internationalization
+
+     * National language support in psql, pg_dump, libpq, and server
+       (Peter E)
+     * Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech,
+       French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A.
+       Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)
+     * Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte
+       aware (Tatsuo)
+     * Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)
+     * Add ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)
+     * Correct LATIN5 to mean ISO-8859-9, not ISO-8859-5 (Tatsuo)
+     * Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)
+     * Reject invalid multibyte character sequences (Tatsuo)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   Internationalization
+PL/pgSQL
+
+     * Now uses portals for SELECT loops, allowing huge result sets (Jan)
+     * CURSOR and REFCURSOR support (Jan)
+     * Can now return open cursors (Jan)
+     * Add ELSEIF (Klaus Reger)
+     * Improve PL/pgSQL error reporting, including location of error
+       (Tom)
+     * Allow IS or FOR key words in cursor declaration, for compatibility
+       (Bruce)
+     * Fix for SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (Tom)
+     * Fix for PERFORM returning multiple rows (Tom)
+     * Make PL/pgSQL use the server's type coercion code (Tom)
+     * Memory leak fix (Jan, Tom)
+     * Make trailing semicolon optional (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           Program and library messages can now be displayed in several
-           languages.
+PL/Perl
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     * New untrusted PL/Perl (Alex Pilosov)
+     * PL/Perl is now built on some platforms even if libperl is not
+       shared (Peter E)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 7.2
+PL/Tcl
 
-   A dump/restore using "pg_dump" is required for those wishing to migrate
-   data from any previous release.
+     * Now reports errorInfo (Vsevolod Lobko)
+     * Add spi_lastoid function (bob@redivi.com)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   Observe the following incompatibilities:
+PL/Python
 
-     * The semantics of the "VACUUM" command have changed in this release.
-       You may wish to update your maintenance procedures accordingly.
+     * ...is new (Andrew Bosma)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * In this release, comparisons using = NULL will always return false (or
-       NULL, more precisely). Previous releases automatically transformed
-       this syntax to IS NULL. The old behavior can be re-enabled using a
-       "postgresql.conf" parameter.
+psql
 
-     * The "pg_hba.conf" and "pg_ident.conf" configuration is now only
-       reloaded after receiving a SIGHUP signal, not with each connection.
+     * \d displays indexes in unique, primary groupings (Christopher
+       Kings-Lynne)
+     * Allow trailing semicolons in backslash commands (Greg Sabino
+       Mullane)
+     * Read password from /dev/tty if possible
+     * Force new password prompt when changing user and database (Tatsuo,
+       Tom)
+     * Format the correct number of columns for Unicode (Patrice)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * The function "octet_length()" now returns the uncompressed data
-       length.
+libpq
 
-     * The date/time value 'current' is no longer available. You will need to
-       rewrite your applications.
-
-     * The timestamp() function is no longer available.  Use timestamp
-       'string' instead, or CAST.
-
-   The SELECT ... LIMIT #,# syntax will be removed in the next release. You
-   should change your queries to use separate LIMIT and OFFSET clauses, e.g.
-   LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
-  Server Operation
-
-   Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce)
-   Delete orphanded temporary files on postmaster startup (Bruce)
-   Added unique indexes to some system tables (Tom)
-   System table operator reorganization (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)
-   Renamed pg_log to pg_clog (Tom)
-   Enable SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to kill backends (Jan)
-   Removed compile-time limit on number of backends (Tom)
-   Better cleanup for semaphore resource failure (Tatsuo, Tom)
-   Allow safe transaction ID wraparound (Tom)
-   Removed OID's from some system tables (Tom)
-   Removed "triggered data change violation" error check (Tom)
-   SPI portal creation of prepared/saved plans (Jan)
-   Allow SPI column functions to work for system columns (Tom)
-   Long value compression improvement (Tom)
-   Statistics collector for table, index access (Jan)
-   Truncate extra-long sequence names to a reasonable value (Tom)
-   Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)
-   Fix TID sequential scans (Hiroshi)
-   Superuser ID now fixed at 1 (Peter E)
-   New pg_ctl "reload" option (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Performance
-
-   Optimizer improvements (Tom)
-   New histogram column statistics for optimizer (Tom)
-   Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)
-   Cache improvements (Tom)
-   IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)
-   Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)
-   Keep relcache entries for index access support functions (Tom)
-   Allow better selectivity with NaN and infinities in NUMERIC (Tom)
-   R-tree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)
-   B-tree splits more efficient (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Privileges
-
-   Change UPDATE, DELETE permissions to be distinct (Peter E)
-   New REFERENCES, TRIGGER privileges (Peter E)
-   Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user at a time (Peter E)
-   New has_table_privilege() function (Joe Conway)
-   Allow non-superuser to vacuum database (Tom)
-   New SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command (Peter E)
-   Fix bug in privilege modifications on newly created tables (Tom)
-   Disallow access to pg_statistic for non-superuser, add user-accessible views (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Client Authentication
-
-   Fork postmaster before doing authentication to prevent hangs (Peter E)
-   Add ident authentication over Unix domain sockets on Linux, *BSD (Helge Bahmann, Oliver Elphick, Teodor Sigaev, Bruce)
-   Add a password authentication method that uses MD5 encryption (Bruce)
-   Allow encryption of stored passwords using MD5 (Bruce)
-   PAM authentication (Dominic J. Eidson)
-   Load pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf only on startup and SIGHUP (Bruce)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Server Configuration
-
-   Interpretation of some time zone abbreviations as Australian rather than North American now settable at run time (Bruce)
-   New parameter to set default transaction isolation level (Peter E)
-   New parameter to enable conversion of "expr = NULL" into "expr IS NULL", off by default (Peter E)
-   New parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)
-   New parameter to set client authentication timeout (Tom)
-   New parameter to set maximum number of open files (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Queries
-
-   Statements added by INSERT rules now execute after the INSERT (Jan)
-   Prevent unadorned relation names in target list (Bruce)
-   NULLs now sort after all normal values in ORDER BY (Tom)
-   New IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN Boolean tests (Tom)
-   New SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode (Tom)
-   New EXPLAIN ANALYZE command that shows run times and row counts (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-   Fix problem with LIMIT and subqueries (Tom)
-   Fix for LIMIT, DISTINCT ON pushed into subqueryies (Tom)
-   Fix nested EXCEPT/INTERSECT (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Schema Manipulation
-
-   Fix SERIAL in temporary tables (Bruce)
-   Allow temporary sequences (Bruce)
-   Sequences now use int8 internally (Tom)
-   New SERIAL8 creates int8 columns with sequences, default still SERIAL4 (Tom)
-   Make OIDs optional using WITHOUT OIDS (Tom)
-   Add %TYPE syntax to CREATE TYPE (Ian Lance Taylor)
-   Add ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT for CHECK constraints (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-   New CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to alter existing function (preserving the function OID) (Gavin Sherry)
-   Add ALTER TABLE / ADD [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ] (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-   Allow column renaming in views
-   Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)
-   Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)
-   ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)
-   DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype (Tom)
-   Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)
-   Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)
-   Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Utility Commands
-
-   Add RESET ALL, SHOW ALL (Marko Kreen)
-   CREATE/ALTER USER/GROUP now allow options in any order (Vince)
-   Add LOCK A, B, C functionality (Neil Padgett)
-   New ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER USER (Bruce)
-   New light-weight VACUUM does not lock table; old semantics are available as VACUUM FULL (Tom)
-   Disable COPY TO/FROM on views (Bruce)
-   COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one character (Tom)
-   VACUUM warning about index tuples fewer than heap now only appears when appropriate (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-   Fix permission checks for CREATE INDEX (Tom)
-   Disallow inappropriate use of CREATE/DROP INDEX/TRIGGER/VIEW (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Data Types and Functions
-
-   SUM(), AVG(), COUNT() now uses int8 internally for speed (Tom)
-   Add convert(), convert2() (Tatsuo)
-   New function bit_length() (Peter E)
-   Make the "n" in CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) represents letters, not bytes (Tatsuo)
-   CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)
-   BIT VARYING now rejects bit strings that are too long (Peter E)
-   BIT now rejects bit strings that do not match declared size (Peter E)
-   INET, CIDR text conversion functions (Alex Pilosov)
-   INET, CIDR operators << and <<= indexable (Alex Pilosov)
-   Bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number
-   Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, <>, >, >=, <, and <=
-   Bytea now supports B-tree indexes
-   Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE
-   Bytea now supports concatenation
-   New bytea functions: position, substring, trim, btrim, and length
-   New encode() function mode, "escaped", converts minimally escaped bytea to/from text
-   Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)
-   Add pg_client_encoding() function (Tatsuo)
-   now() returns time with millisecond precision (Thomas)
-   New TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE data type (Thomas)
-   Add ISO date/time specification with "T", yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (Thomas)
-   New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)
-   Add precision to TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INVERVAL data types (Thomas)
-   Modify type coersion logic to attempt binary-compatible functions first (Tom)
-   New encode() function installed by default (Marko Kreen)
-   Improved to_*() conversion functions (Karel Zak)
-   Optimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
-   New functions in contrib/pgcrypto: crypt(), hmac(), encrypt(), gen_salt() (Marko Kreen)
-   Correct description of translate() function (Bruce)
-   Add INTERVAL argument for SET TIME ZONE (Thomas)
-   Add INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH (etc.) syntax (Thomas)
-   Optimize length functions when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
-   Fix path_inter, path_distance, path_length, dist_ppath to handle closed paths (Curtis Barrett, Tom)
-   octet_length(text) now returns non-compressed length (Tatsuo, Bruce)
-   Handle "July" full name in date/time literals (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-   Some datatype() function calls now evaluated differently
-   Add support for Julian and ISO time specifications (Thomas)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Internationalization
-
-   National language support in psql, pg_dump, libpq, and server (Peter E)
-   Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A. Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)
-   Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte aware (Tatsuo)
-   Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)
-   Add ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)
-   Correct LATIN5 to mean ISO-8859-9, not ISO-8859-5 (Tatsuo)
-   Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)
-   Reject invalid multibyte character sequences (Tatsuo)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  PL/pgSQL
-
-   Now uses portals for SELECT loops, allowing huge result sets (Jan)
-   CURSOR and REFCURSOR support (Jan)
-   Can now return open cursors (Jan)
-   Add ELSEIF (Klaus Reger)
-   Improve PL/pgSQL error reporting, including location of error (Tom)
-   Allow IS or FOR key words in cursor declaration, for compatibility (Bruce)
-   Fix for SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (Tom)
-   Fix for PERFORM returning multiple rows (Tom)
-   Make PL/pgSQL use the server's type coercion code (Tom)
-   Memory leak fix (Jan, Tom)
-   Make trailing semicolon optional (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  PL/Perl
-
-   New untrusted PL/Perl (Alex Pilosov)
-   PL/Perl is now built on some platforms even if libperl is not shared (Peter E)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  PL/Tcl
-
-   Now reports errorInfo (Vsevolod Lobko)
-   Add spi_lastoid function (bob@redivi.com)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  PL/Python
-
-   ...is new (Andrew Bosma)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Psql
-
-   \d displays indexes in unique, primary groupings (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-   Allow trailing semicolons in backslash commands (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-   Read password from /dev/tty if possible
-   Force new password prompt when changing user and database (Tatsuo, Tom)
-   Format the correct number of columns for Unicode (Patrice)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Libpq
-
-   New function PQescapeString() to escape quotes in command strings (Florian Weimer)
-   New function PQescapeBytea() escapes binary strings for use as SQL string literals
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  JDBC
-
-   Return OID of INSERT (Ken K)
-   Handle more data types (Ken K)
-   Handle single quotes and newlines in strings (Ken K)
-   Handle NULL variables (Ken K)
-   Fix for time zone handling (Barry Lind)
-   Improved Druid support
-   Allow eight-bit characters with non-multibyte server (Barry Lind)
-   Support BIT, BINARY types (Ned Wolpert)
-   Reduce memory usage (Michael Stephens, Dave Cramer)
-   Update DatabaseMetaData (Peter E)
-   Add DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() (Peter E)
-   Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)
-   Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)
-   DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason Davies)
-   DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() performance improvement (Jeroen van Vianen)
-   Some JDBC1 and JDBC2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)
-   Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)
-   Array fixes (Greg Zoller)
-   Serialize addition 
-   Fix batch processing (Rene Pijlman)
-   ExecSQL method reorganization (Anders Bengtsson)
-   GetColumn() fixes (Jeroen van Vianen)
-   Fix isWriteable() function (Rene Pijlman)
-   Improved passage of JDBC2 conformance tests (Rene Pijlman)
-   Add bytea type capability (Barry Lind)
-   Add isNullable() (Rene Pijlman)
-   JDBC date/time test suite fixes (Liam Stewart)
-   Fix for SELECT 'id' AS xxx FROM table (Dave Cramer)
-   Fix DatabaseMetaData to show precision properly (Mark Lillywhite)
-   New getImported/getExported keys (Jason Davies)
-   MD5 password encryption support (Jeremy Wohl)
-   Fix to actually use type cache (Ned Wolpert)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  ODBC
-
-   Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)
-   Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)
-   Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)
-   Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)
-   Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)
-   Most configuration options on setable via DSN (Hiroshi)
-   Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)
-   Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)
-   MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)
-   Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  ECPG
-
-   EXECUTE ... INTO implemented (Christof Petig)
-   Multiple row descriptor support (e.g. CARDINALITY) (Christof Petig)
-   Fix for GRANT parameters (Lee Kindness)
-   Fix INITIALLY DEFERRED bug
-   Various bug fixes (Michael, Christof Petig)
-   Auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)
-   Auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)
-   ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed
-   All function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG
-   Fixes for arrays of structures (Michael)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Misc. Interfaces
-
-   Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)
-   Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko, Reinhard Max)
-   Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)
-   Prevent output of default index op class in pg_dump (Tom)
-   Fix libpgeasy memory leak (Bruce)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Build and Install
-
-   Configure, dynamic loader, and shared library fixes (Peter E)
-   Fixes in QNX 4 port (Bernd Tegge)
-   Fixes in Cygwin and Win32 ports (Jason Tishler, Gerhard Haring, Dmitry Yurtaev, Darko Prenosil, Mikhail Terekhov)
-   Fix for Win32 socket communication failures (Magnus, Mikhail Terekhov)
-   Hurd compile fix (Oliver Elphick)
-   BeOS fixes (Cyril Velter)
-   Remove configure --enable-unicode-conversion, now enabled by multibyte (Tatsuo)
-   AIX fixes (Tatsuo, Andreas)
-   Fix parallel make (Peter E)
-   Install SQL language manual pages into OS-specific directories (Peter E)
-   Rename config.h to pg_config.h (Peter E)
-   Reorganize installation layout of header files (Peter E)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Source Code
-
-   Remove SEP_CHAR (Bruce)
-   New GUC hooks (Tom)
-   Merge GUC and command line handling (Marko Kreen)
-   Remove EXTEND INDEX (Martijn van Oosterhout, Tom)
-   New pgjindent utility to indent java code (Bruce)
-   Remove define of true/false when compiling under C++ (Leandro Fanzone, Tom)
-   pgindent fixes (Bruce, Tom)
-   Replace strcasecmp() with strcmp() where appropriate (Peter E)
-   Dynahash portability improvements (Tom)
-   Add 'volatile' usage in spinlock structures
-   Improve signal handling logic (Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  Contrib
-
-   New contrib/rtree_gist (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev)
-   New contrib/tsearch full-text indexing (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)
-   Add contrib/dblink for remote database access (Joe Conway)
-   contrib/ora2pg Oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)
-   contrib/xml XML conversion utility (John Gray)
-   contrib/fulltextindex fixes (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-   New contrib/fuzzystrmatch with levenshtein and metaphone, soundex merged (Joe Conway)
-   Add contrib/intarray boolean queries, binary search, fixes (Oleg Bartunov)
-   New pg_upgrade utility (Bruce)
-   Add new pg_resetxlog options (Bruce, Tom)
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 7.1.3
+     * New function PQescapeString() to escape quotes in command strings
+       (Florian Weimer)
+     * New function PQescapeBytea() escapes binary strings for use as SQL
+       string literals
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     Release date: 2001-08-15
+JDBC
+
+     * Return OID of INSERT (Ken K)
+     * Handle more data types (Ken K)
+     * Handle single quotes and newlines in strings (Ken K)
+     * Handle NULL variables (Ken K)
+     * Fix for time zone handling (Barry Lind)
+     * Improved Druid support
+     * Allow eight-bit characters with non-multibyte server (Barry Lind)
+     * Support BIT, BINARY types (Ned Wolpert)
+     * Reduce memory usage (Michael Stephens, Dave Cramer)
+     * Update DatabaseMetaData (Peter E)
+     * Add DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() (Peter E)
+     * Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)
+     * Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)
+     * DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason
+       Davies)
+     * DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() performance improvement (Jeroen van
+       Vianen)
+     * Some JDBC1 and JDBC2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)
+     * Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)
+     * Array fixes (Greg Zoller)
+     * Serialize addition
+     * Fix batch processing (Rene Pijlman)
+     * ExecSQL method reorganization (Anders Bengtsson)
+     * GetColumn() fixes (Jeroen van Vianen)
+     * Fix isWriteable() function (Rene Pijlman)
+     * Improved passage of JDBC2 conformance tests (Rene Pijlman)
+     * Add bytea type capability (Barry Lind)
+     * Add isNullable() (Rene Pijlman)
+     * JDBC date/time test suite fixes (Liam Stewart)
+     * Fix for SELECT 'id' AS xxx FROM table (Dave Cramer)
+     * Fix DatabaseMetaData to show precision properly (Mark Lillywhite)
+     * New getImported/getExported keys (Jason Davies)
+     * MD5 password encryption support (Jeremy Wohl)
+     * Fix to actually use type cache (Ned Wolpert)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ODBC
+
+     * Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)
+     * Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)
+     * Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)
+     * Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)
+     * Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)
+     * Most configuration options now settable via DSN (Hiroshi)
+     * Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)
+     * Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)
+     * MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)
+     * Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 7.1.3
+ECPG
+
+     * EXECUTE ... INTO implemented (Christof Petig)
+     * Multiple row descriptor support (e.g. CARDINALITY) (Christof
+       Petig)
+     * Fix for GRANT parameters (Lee Kindness)
+     * Fix INITIALLY DEFERRED bug
+     * Various bug fixes (Michael, Christof Petig)
+     * Auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)
+     * Auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)
+     * ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed
+     * All function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG
+     * Fixes for arrays of structures (Michael)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.X.
+Misc. Interfaces
+
+     * Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)
+     * Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko,
+       Reinhard Max)
+     * Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)
+     * Prevent output of default index op class in pg_dump (Tom)
+     * Fix libpgeasy memory leak (Bruce)
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+Build and Install
+
+     * Configure, dynamic loader, and shared library fixes (Peter E)
+     * Fixes in QNX 4 port (Bernd Tegge)
+     * Fixes in Cygwin and Windows ports (Jason Tishler, Gerhard Haring,
+       Dmitry Yurtaev, Darko Prenosil, Mikhail Terekhov)
+     * Fix for Windows socket communication failures (Magnus, Mikhail
+       Terekhov)
+     * Hurd compile fix (Oliver Elphick)
+     * BeOS fixes (Cyril Velter)
+     * Remove configure --enable-unicode-conversion, now enabled by
+       multibyte (Tatsuo)
+     * AIX fixes (Tatsuo, Andreas)
+     * Fix parallel make (Peter E)
+     * Install SQL language manual pages into OS-specific directories
+       (Peter E)
+     * Rename config.h to pg_config.h (Peter E)
+     * Reorganize installation layout of header files (Peter E)
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+Source Code
+
+     * Remove SEP_CHAR (Bruce)
+     * New GUC hooks (Tom)
+     * Merge GUC and command line handling (Marko Kreen)
+     * Remove EXTEND INDEX (Martijn van Oosterhout, Tom)
+     * New pgjindent utility to indent java code (Bruce)
+     * Remove define of true/false when compiling under C++ (Leandro
+       Fanzone, Tom)
+     * pgindent fixes (Bruce, Tom)
+     * Replace strcasecmp() with strcmp() where appropriate (Peter E)
+     * Dynahash portability improvements (Tom)
+     * Add 'volatile' usage in spinlock structures
+     * Improve signal handling logic (Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+Contrib
+
+     * New contrib/rtree_gist (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev)
+     * New contrib/tsearch full-text indexing (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)
+     * Add contrib/dblink for remote database access (Joe Conway)
+     * contrib/ora2pg Oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)
+     * contrib/xml XML conversion utility (John Gray)
+     * contrib/fulltextindex fixes (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
+     * New contrib/fuzzystrmatch with levenshtein and metaphone, soundex
+       merged (Joe Conway)
+     * Add contrib/intarray boolean queries, binary search, fixes (Oleg
+       Bartunov)
+     * New pg_upgrade utility (Bruce)
+     * Add new pg_resetxlog options (Bruce, Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                               Release 7.1.3
 
-Changes
+     Release date: 2001-08-15
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
- Remove unused WAL segements of large transactions (Tom)
- Multiaction rule fix (Tom)
- PL/pgSQL memory allocation fix (Jan)
- VACUUM buffer fix (Tom)
- Regression test fixes (Tom)
- pg_dump fixes for GRANT/REVOKE/comments on views, user-defined types (Tom)
- Fix subselects with DISTINCT ON or LIMIT (Tom)
- BEOS fix
- Disable COPY TO/FROM a view (Tom)
- Cygwin build (Jason Tishler)
-     
+                         Migration to version 7.1.3
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.X.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 7.1.2
+                                  Changes
+
+Remove unused WAL segements of large transactions (Tom)
+Multiaction rule fix (Tom)
+PL/pgSQL memory allocation fix (Jan)
+VACUUM buffer fix (Tom)
+Regression test fixes (Tom)
+pg_dump fixes for GRANT/REVOKE/comments on views, user-defined types (Tom)
+Fix subselects with DISTINCT ON or LIMIT (Tom)
+BeOS fix
+Disable COPY TO/FROM a view (Tom)
+Cygwin build (Jason Tishler)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 7.1.2
 
      Release date: 2001-05-11
 
    This has one fix from 7.1.1.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.1.2
+                         Migration to version 7.1.2
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.X.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
+                                  Changes
 
- Fix PL/pgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows
- Fix for psql backslash core dump
- Referential integrity permission fix
- Optimizer fixes
- pg_dump cleanups
-     
+Fix PL/pgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows
+Fix for psql backslash core dump
+Referential integrity privilege fix
+Optimizer fixes
+pg_dump cleanups
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 7.1.1
+                               Release 7.1.1
 
      Release date: 2001-05-05
 
    This has a variety of fixes from 7.1.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.1.1
+                         Migration to version 7.1.1
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
+                                  Changes
 
- Fix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom)
- pg_dump fixes (Philip)
- pg_dump can dump 7.0 databases (Philip)
- readline 4.2 fixes (Peter E)
- JOIN fixes (Tom)
- AIX, MSWIN, VAX,N32K fixes (Tom)
- Multibytes fixes (Tom)
- Unicode fixes (Tatsuo)
- Optimizer improvements (Tom)
- Fix for whole tuples in functions (Tom)
- Fix for pg_ctl and option strings with spaces (Peter E)
- ODBC fixes (Hiroshi)
- EXTRACT can now take string argument (Thomas)
- Python fixes (Darcy)
-     
+Fix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom)
+pg_dump fixes (Philip)
+pg_dump can dump 7.0 databases (Philip)
+readline 4.2 fixes (Peter E)
+JOIN fixes (Tom)
+AIX, MSWIN, VAX, N32K fixes (Tom)
+Multibytes fixes (Tom)
+Unicode fixes (Tatsuo)
+Optimizer improvements (Tom)
+Fix for whole rows in functions (Tom)
+Fix for pg_ctl and option strings with spaces (Peter E)
+ODBC fixes (Hiroshi)
+EXTRACT can now take string argument (Thomas)
+Python fixes (Darcy)
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                  Release 7.1
+                                Release 7.1
 
      Release date: 2001-04-13
 
@@ -736,1487 +771,1440 @@ Changes
    Major changes in this release:
 
    Write-ahead Log (WAL)
-
-           To maintain database consistency in case of an operating system
-           crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL have forced all data
-           modifications to disk before each transaction commit. With WAL,
-           only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
-           performance. If you have been using -F in previous releases to
-           disable disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its
-           use.
+          To maintain database consistency in case of an operating system
+          crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL have forced all data
+          modifications to disk before each transaction commit. With WAL,
+          only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
+          performance. If you have been using -F in previous releases to
+          disable disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing
+          its use.
 
    TOAST
-
-           TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
-           typically 8k - 32k. This limit made storage of long text fields
-           difficult. With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored with
-           good performance.
+          TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
+          typically 8k - 32k. This limit made storage of long text fields
+          difficult. With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored
+          with good performance.
 
    Outer Joins
-
-           We now support outer joins. The UNION/NOT IN workaround for outer
-           joins is no longer required. We use the SQL92 outer join syntax.
+          We now support outer joins. The UNION/NOT IN workaround for
+          outer joins is no longer required. We use the SQL92 outer join
+          syntax.
 
    Function Manager
-
-           The previous C function manager did not handle NULLs properly, nor
-           did it support 64-bit CPU's (Alpha). The new function manager
-           does. You can continue using your old custom functions, but you
-           may want to rewrite them in the future to use the new function
-           manager call interface.
+          The previous C function manager did not handle null values
+          properly, nor did it support 64-bit CPU's (Alpha). The new
+          function manager does. You can continue using your old custom
+          functions, but you may want to rewrite them in the future to
+          use the new function manager call interface.
 
    Complex Queries
+          A large number of complex queries that were unsupported in
+          previous releases now work. Many combinations of views,
+          aggregates, UNION, LIMIT, cursors, subqueries, and inherited
+          tables now work properly. Inherited tables are now accessed by
+          default. Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                          Migration to version 7.1
+
+   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
+   data from any previous release.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
 
-           A large number of complex queries that were unsupported in
-           previous releases now work. Many combinations of views,
-           aggregates, UNION, LIMIT, cursors, subqueries, and inherited
-           tables now work properly. Inherited tables are now accessed by
-           default. Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.1
-
-   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data
-   from any previous release.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Many multi-byte/Unicode/locale fixes (Tatsuo and others)
- More reliable ALTER TABLE RENAME (Tom)
- Kerberos V fixes (David Wragg)
- Fix for INSERT INTO...SELECT where targetlist has subqueries (Tom)
- Prompt username/password on standard error (Bruce)
- Large objects inv_read/inv_write fixes (Tom)
- Fixes for to_char(), to_date(), to_ascii(), and to_timestamp() (Karel,
-     Daniel Baldoni)
- Prevent query expressions from leaking memory (Tom)
- Allow UPDATE of arrays elements (Tom)
- Wake up lock waiters during cancel (Hiroshi)
- Fix rare cursor crash when using hash join (Tom)
- Fix for DROP TABLE/INDEX in rolled-back transaction (Hiroshi)
- Fix psql crash from \l+ if MULTIBYTE enabled (Peter E)
- Fix truncation of rule names during CREATE VIEW (Ross Reedstrom)
- Fix PL/perl (Alex Kapranoff)
- Disallow LOCK on views (Mark Hollomon)
- Disallow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on views (Mark Hollomon)
- Disallow DROP RULE, CREATE INDEX, TRUNCATE on views (Mark Hollomon)
- Allow PL/pgSQL accept non-ASCII identifiers (Tatsuo)
- Allow views to proper handle GROUP BY, aggregates, DISTINCT (Tom)
- Fix rare failure with TRUNCATE command (Tom)
- Allow UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT to be used with ALL, subqueries, views,
-     DISTINCT, ORDER BY, SELECT...INTO (Tom)
- Fix parser failures during aborted transactions (Tom)
- Allow temporary relations to properly clean up indexes (Bruce)
- Fix VACUUM problem with moving rows in same page (Tom)
- Modify pg_dump to better handle user-defined items in template1 (Philip)
- Allow LIMIT in VIEW (Tom)
- Require cursor FETCH to honor LIMIT (Tom)
- Allow PRIMARY/FOREIGN Key definitions on inherited columns (Stephan)
- Allow ORDER BY, LIMIT in sub-selects (Tom)
- Allow UNION in CREATE RULE (Tom)
- Make ALTER/DROP TABLE rollback-able (Vadim, Tom)
- Store initdb collation in pg_control so collation cannot be changed (Tom)
- Fix INSERT...SELECT with rules (Tom)
- Fix FOR UPDATE inside views and subselects (Tom)
- Fix OVERLAPS operators conform to SQL92 spec regarding NULLs (Tom)
- Fix lpad() and rpad() to handle length less than input string (Tom)
- Fix use of NOTIFY in some rules (Tom)
- Overhaul btree code (Tom)
- Fix NOT NULL use in Pl/pgSQL variables (Tom)
- Overhaul GIST code (Oleg)
- Fix CLUSTER to preserve constraints and column default (Tom)
- Improved deadlock detection handling (Tom)
- Allow multiple SERIAL columns in a table (Tom)
- Prevent occasional index corruption (Vadim)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
- Function manager overhaul (Tom)
- Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes (Tom)
- Improve CLUSTER (Tom)
- Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E, Marc)
- Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message (Ross)
- JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
-     Gunnar)
- Grand Unified Configuration scheme/GUC.  Many options can now be set in
-     data/postgresql.conf, postmaster/postgres flags, or SET commands (Peter E)
- Improved handling of file descriptor cache (Tom)
- New warning code about auto-created table alias entries (Bruce)
- Overhaul initdb process (Tom, Peter E)
- Overhaul of inherited tables; inherited tables now accessed by default;
-    new ONLY keyword prevents it (Chris Bitmead, Tom)
- ODBC cleanups/improvements (Nick Gorham, Stephan Szabo, Zoltan Kovacs,
-     Michael Fork)
- Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
- Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
- pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
- Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
- Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
- Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP keyword when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
- New memory leak checker (Karel)
- New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
- Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
- Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
- New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
- Use NUMERIC accumulators for INTEGER aggregates (Tom)
- Overhaul aggregate code (Tom)
- New VARIANCE and STDDEV() aggregates
- Improve dependency ordering of pg_dump (Philip)
- New pg_restore command (Philip)
- New pg_dump tar output option (Philip)
- New pg_dump of large objects  (Philip)
- New ESCAPE option to LIKE (Thomas)
- New case-insensitive LIKE - ILIKE (Thomas)
- Allow functional indexes to use binary-compatible type (Tom)
- Allow SQL functions to be used in more contexts (Tom)
- New pg_config utility (Peter E)
- New PL/pgSQL EXECUTE command which allows dynamic SQL and utility statements
-     (Jan)
- New PL/pgSQL GET DIAGNOSTICS statement for SPI value access (Jan)
- New quote_identifiers() and quote_literal() functions (Jan)
- New ALTER TABLE table OWNER TO user command (Mark Hollomon)
- Allow subselects in FROM, i.e. FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias (Tom)
- Update PyGreSQL to version 3.1 (D'Arcy)
- Store tables as files named by OID (Vadim)
- New SQL function setval(seq,val,bool) for use in pg_dump (Philip)
- Require DROP VIEW to remove views, no DROP TABLE (Mark)
- Allow DROP VIEW view1, view2 (Mark)
- Allow multiple objects in DROP INDEX, DROP RULE, and DROP TYPE (Tom)
- Allow automatic conversion to/from Unicode (Tatsuo, Eiji)
- New /contrib/pgcrypto hashing functions (Marko Kreen)
- New pg_dumpall --globals-only option (Peter E)
- New CHECKPOINT command for WAL which creates new WAL log file (Vadim)
- New AT TIME ZONE syntax (Thomas)
- Allow location of Unix domain socket to be configurable (David J. MacKenzie)
- Allow postmaster to listen on a specific IP address (David J. MacKenzie)
- Allow socket path name to be specified in hostname by using leading slash
-     (David J. MacKenzie)
- Allow CREATE DATABASE to specify template database (Tom)
- New utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL (Thomas)
- New /contrib/rserv replication toolkit (Vadim)
- New file format for COPY BINARY (Tom)
- New /contrib/oid2name to map numeric files to table names (B Palmer)
- New "idle in transaction" ps status message (Marc)
- Update to pgaccess 0.98.7 (Constantin Teodorescu)
- pg_ctl now defaults to -w (wait) on shutdown, new -l (log) option
- Add rudimentary dependency checking to pg_dump (Philip)
-
- Types
- -----
- Fix INET/CIDR type ordering and add new functions (Tom)
- Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
- Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E)
- New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
- New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom, Peter E)
- CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom)
- New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov)
- Improved round(numeric) handling (Tom)
- Fix CIDR output formatting (Tom)
- New CIDR abbrev() function (Tom)
-
- Performance
- -----------
- Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to provide crash recovery with less performance
-     overhead (Vadim)
- ANALYZE stage of VACUUM no longer exclusively locks table (Bruce)
- Reduced file seeks (Denis Perchine)
- Improve BTREE code for duplicate keys (Tom)
- Store all large objects in a single table (Denis Perchine, Tom)
- Improve memory allocation performance (Karel, Tom)
-
- Source Code
- -----------
- New function manager call conventions (Tom)
- SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
- New configure --enable-syslog option (Peter E)
- New BSDI README (Bruce)
- configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
- Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
- New configure --with-python option (Peter E)
- Solaris cleanups (Peter E)
- Overhaul /contrib Makefiles (Karel)
- New OpenSSL configuration option (Magnus, Peter E)
- AIX fixes (Andreas)
- QNX fixes (Maurizio)
- New heap_open(), heap_openr() API (Tom)
- Remove colon and semi-colon operators (Thomas)
- New pg_class.relkind value for views (Mark Hollomon)
- Rename ichar() to chr() (Karel)
- New documentation for btrim(), ascii(), chr(), repeat() (Karel)
- Fixes for NT/Cygwin (Pete Forman)
- AIX port fixes (Andreas)
- New BeOS port (David Reid, Cyril Velter)
- Add proofreader's changes to docs (Addison-Wesley, Bruce)
- New Alpha spinlock code (Adriaan Joubert, Compaq)
- Unixware port overhaul (Peter E)
- New Darwin/Mac OSX port (Peter Bierman, Bruce Hartzler)
- New FreeBSD Alpha port (Alfred)
- Overhaul shared memory segments (Tom)
- Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson)
- Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
- Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
- New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
- New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
- Allow NetBSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
- Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
- New contrib/pg_logger
- New --template option to createdb
- New contrib/pg_control utility (Oliver)
- New FreeBSD tools ipc_check, start-scripts/freebsd
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 7.0.3
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Many multibyte/Unicode/locale fixes (Tatsuo and others)
+More reliable ALTER TABLE RENAME (Tom)
+Kerberos V fixes (David Wragg)
+Fix for INSERT INTO...SELECT where targetlist has subqueries (Tom)
+Prompt username/password on standard error (Bruce)
+Large objects inv_read/inv_write fixes (Tom)
+Fixes for to_char(), to_date(), to_ascii(), and to_timestamp() (Karel,
+    Daniel Baldoni)
+Prevent query expressions from leaking memory (Tom)
+Allow UPDATE of arrays elements (Tom)
+Wake up lock waiters during cancel (Hiroshi)
+Fix rare cursor crash when using hash join (Tom)
+Fix for DROP TABLE/INDEX in rolled-back transaction (Hiroshi)
+Fix psql crash from \l+ if MULTIBYTE enabled (Peter E)
+Fix truncation of rule names during CREATE VIEW (Ross Reedstrom)
+Fix PL/perl (Alex Kapranoff)
+Disallow LOCK on views (Mark Hollomon)
+Disallow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on views (Mark Hollomon)
+Disallow DROP RULE, CREATE INDEX, TRUNCATE on views (Mark Hollomon)
+Allow PL/pgSQL accept non-ASCII identifiers (Tatsuo)
+Allow views to proper handle GROUP BY, aggregates, DISTINCT (Tom)
+Fix rare failure with TRUNCATE command (Tom)
+Allow UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT to be used with ALL, subqueries, views,
+    DISTINCT, ORDER BY, SELECT...INTO (Tom)
+Fix parser failures during aborted transactions (Tom)
+Allow temporary relations to properly clean up indexes (Bruce)
+Fix VACUUM problem with moving rows in same page (Tom)
+Modify pg_dump to better handle user-defined items in template1 (Philip)
+Allow LIMIT in VIEW (Tom)
+Require cursor FETCH to honor LIMIT (Tom)
+Allow PRIMARY/FOREIGN Key definitions on inherited columns (Stephan)
+Allow ORDER BY, LIMIT in subqueries (Tom)
+Allow UNION in CREATE RULE (Tom)
+Make ALTER/DROP TABLE rollback-able (Vadim, Tom)
+Store initdb collation in pg_control so collation cannot be changed (Tom)
+Fix INSERT...SELECT with rules (Tom)
+Fix FOR UPDATE inside views and subselects (Tom)
+Fix OVERLAPS operators conform to SQL92 spec regarding NULLs (Tom)
+Fix lpad() and rpad() to handle length less than input string (Tom)
+Fix use of NOTIFY in some rules (Tom)
+Overhaul btree code (Tom)
+Fix NOT NULL use in Pl/pgSQL variables (Tom)
+Overhaul GIST code (Oleg)
+Fix CLUSTER to preserve constraints and column default (Tom)
+Improved deadlock detection handling (Tom)
+Allow multiple SERIAL columns in a table (Tom)
+Prevent occasional index corruption (Vadim)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Add OUTER JOINs (Tom)
+Function manager overhaul (Tom)
+Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME on indexes (Tom)
+Improve CLUSTER (Tom)
+Improve ps status display for more platforms (Peter E, Marc)
+Improve CREATE FUNCTION failure message (Ross)
+JDBC improvements (Peter, Travis Bauer, Christopher Cain, William Webber,
+    Gunnar)
+Grand Unified Configuration scheme/GUC.  Many options can now be set in
+    data/postgresql.conf, postmaster/postgres flags, or SET commands (Peter E)
+Improved handling of file descriptor cache (Tom)
+New warning code about auto-created table alias entries (Bruce)
+Overhaul initdb process (Tom, Peter E)
+Overhaul of inherited tables; inherited tables now accessed by default;
+   new ONLY key word prevents it (Chris Bitmead, Tom)
+ODBC cleanups/improvements (Nick Gorham, Stephan Szabo, Zoltan Kovacs,
+    Michael Fork)
+Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
+Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
+pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
+Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
+Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
+Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP key word when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
+New memory leak checker (Karel)
+New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
+Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
+Add WITHOUT TIME ZONE type qualifier (Thomas)
+New ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT (Stephan)
+Use NUMERIC accumulators for INTEGER aggregates (Tom)
+Overhaul aggregate code (Tom)
+New VARIANCE and STDDEV() aggregates
+Improve dependency ordering of pg_dump (Philip)
+New pg_restore command (Philip)
+New pg_dump tar output option (Philip)
+New pg_dump of large objects  (Philip)
+New ESCAPE option to LIKE (Thomas)
+New case-insensitive LIKE - ILIKE (Thomas)
+Allow functional indexes to use binary-compatible type (Tom)
+Allow SQL functions to be used in more contexts (Tom)
+New pg_config utility (Peter E)
+New PL/pgSQL EXECUTE command which allows dynamic SQL and utility statements
+    (Jan)
+New PL/pgSQL GET DIAGNOSTICS statement for SPI value access (Jan)
+New quote_identifiers() and quote_literal() functions (Jan)
+New ALTER TABLE table OWNER TO user command (Mark Hollomon)
+Allow subselects in FROM, i.e. FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias (Tom)
+Update PyGreSQL to version 3.1 (D'Arcy)
+Store tables as files named by OID (Vadim)
+New SQL function setval(seq,val,bool) for use in pg_dump (Philip)
+Require DROP VIEW to remove views, no DROP TABLE (Mark)
+Allow DROP VIEW view1, view2 (Mark)
+Allow multiple objects in DROP INDEX, DROP RULE, and DROP TYPE (Tom)
+Allow automatic conversion to/from Unicode (Tatsuo, Eiji)
+New /contrib/pgcrypto hashing functions (Marko Kreen)
+New pg_dumpall --globals-only option (Peter E)
+New CHECKPOINT command for WAL which creates new WAL log file (Vadim)
+New AT TIME ZONE syntax (Thomas)
+Allow location of Unix domain socket to be configurable (David J. MacKenzie)
+Allow postmaster to listen on a specific IP address (David J. MacKenzie)
+Allow socket path name to be specified in hostname by using leading slash
+    (David J. MacKenzie)
+Allow CREATE DATABASE to specify template database (Tom)
+New utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL (Thomas)
+New /contrib/rserv replication toolkit (Vadim)
+New file format for COPY BINARY (Tom)
+New /contrib/oid2name to map numeric files to table names (B Palmer)
+New "idle in transaction" ps status message (Marc)
+Update to pgaccess 0.98.7 (Constantin Teodorescu)
+pg_ctl now defaults to -w (wait) on shutdown, new -l (log) option
+Add rudimentary dependency checking to pg_dump (Philip)
+
+Types
+-----
+Fix INET/CIDR type ordering and add new functions (Tom)
+Make OID behave as an unsigned type (Tom)
+Allow BIGINT as synonym for INT8 (Peter E)
+New int2 and int8 comparison operators (Tom)
+New BIT and BIT VARYING types (Adriaan Joubert, Tom, Peter E)
+CHAR() no longer faster than VARCHAR() because of TOAST (Tom)
+New GIST seg/cube examples (Gene Selkov)
+Improved round(numeric) handling (Tom)
+Fix CIDR output formatting (Tom)
+New CIDR abbrev() function (Tom)
+
+Performance
+-----------
+Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to provide crash recovery with less performance
+    overhead (Vadim)
+ANALYZE stage of VACUUM no longer exclusively locks table (Bruce)
+Reduced file seeks (Denis Perchine)
+Improve BTREE code for duplicate keys (Tom)
+Store all large objects in a single table (Denis Perchine, Tom)
+Improve memory allocation performance (Karel, Tom)
+
+Source Code
+-----------
+New function manager call conventions (Tom)
+SGI portability fixes (David Kaelbling)
+New configure --enable-syslog option (Peter E)
+New BSDI README (Bruce)
+configure script moved to top level, not /src (Peter E)
+Makefile/configuration/compilation overhaul (Peter E)
+New configure --with-python option (Peter E)
+Solaris cleanups (Peter E)
+Overhaul /contrib Makefiles (Karel)
+New OpenSSL configuration option (Magnus, Peter E)
+AIX fixes (Andreas)
+QNX fixes (Maurizio)
+New heap_open(), heap_openr() API (Tom)
+Remove colon and semi-colon operators (Thomas)
+New pg_class.relkind value for views (Mark Hollomon)
+Rename ichar() to chr() (Karel)
+New documentation for btrim(), ascii(), chr(), repeat() (Karel)
+Fixes for NT/Cygwin (Pete Forman)
+AIX port fixes (Andreas)
+New BeOS port (David Reid, Cyril Velter)
+Add proofreader's changes to docs (Addison-Wesley, Bruce)
+New Alpha spinlock code (Adriaan Joubert, Compaq)
+UnixWare port overhaul (Peter E)
+New Darwin/MacOS X port (Peter Bierman, Bruce Hartzler)
+New FreeBSD Alpha port (Alfred)
+Overhaul shared memory segments (Tom)
+Add IBM S/390 support (Neale Ferguson)
+Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
+Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
+New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
+New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
+Allow NetBSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
+Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
+New contrib/pg_logger
+New --template option to createdb
+New contrib/pg_control utility (Oliver)
+New FreeBSD tools ipc_check, start-scripts/freebsd
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 7.0.3
 
      Release date: 2000-11-11
 
    This has a variety of fixes from 7.0.2.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.0.3
+                         Migration to version 7.0.3
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.0.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+Jdbc fixes (Peter)
+Large object fix (Tom)
+Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)
+Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
+Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
+Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
+Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
+Fix for psql \l+ when multibyte enabled (Tatsuo)
+Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
+Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
+Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
+Fix for memory aloocation problem in user authentication code (Tom)
+Remove bogus use of int4out() (Tom)
+Fixes for multiple subqueries in COALESCE or BETWEEN (Tom)
+Fix for failure of triggers on heap open in certain cases (Jeroen van
+    Vianen)
+Fix for erroneous selectivity of not-equals (Tom)
+Fix for erroneous use of strcmp() (Tom)
+Fix for bug where storage manager accesses items beyond end of file
+    (Tom)
+Fix to include kernel errno message in all smgr elog messages (Tom)
+Fix for '.' not in PATH at build time (SL Baur)
+Fix for out-of-file-descriptors error (Tom)
+Fix to make pg_dump dump 'iscachable' flag for functions (Tom)
+Fix for subselect in targetlist of Append node (Tom)
+Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
+Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
+Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
+Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
+Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update row versions when source
+    and destination of a row version lie on the same page (Tom)
+Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
+Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
+Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
+Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
+Buffer fix (Tom)
+Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
+    types (Tatsuo)
+Fix for crash of backend, on abort (Tom)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Jdbc fixes (Peter)
- Large object fix (Tom)
- Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)
- Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
- Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
- Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
- Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
- Fix for psql \l+ when multi-byte enabled (Tatsuo)
- Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
- Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
- Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
- Fix for memory aloocation problem in user authentication code (Tom)
- Remove bogus use of int4out() (Tom)
- Fixes for multiple subqueries in COALESCE or BETWEEN (Tom)
- Fix for failure of triggers on heap open in certain cases (Jeroen van
-     Vianen)
- Fix for erroneous selectivity of not-equals (Tom)
- Fix for erroneous use of strcmp() (Tom)
- Fix for bug where storage manager accesses items beyond end of file
-     (Tom)
- Fix to include kernel errno message in all smgr elog messages (Tom)
- Fix for '.' not in PATH at build time (SL Baur)
- Fix for out-of-file-descriptors error (Tom)
- Fix to make pg_dump dump 'iscachable' flag for functions (Tom)
- Fix for subselect in targetlist of Append node (Tom)
- Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
- Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
- Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
- Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
- Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and
-     destination of a tuple lie on the same page (Tom)
- Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
- Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
- Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
- Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
- Buffer fix (Tom)
- Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
-     types (Tatsuo)
- Fix for crash of backend, on abort (Tom)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 7.0.2
+                               Release 7.0.2
 
      Release date: 2000-06-05
 
    This is a repackaging of 7.0.1 with added documentation.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.0.2
+                         Migration to version 7.0.2
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
+                                  Changes
 
- Added documentation to tarball.
-     
+Added documentation to tarball.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 7.0.1
+                               Release 7.0.1
 
      Release date: 2000-06-01
 
    This is a cleanup release for 7.0.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.0.1
+                         Migration to version 7.0.1
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.0.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
- Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
- Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
- New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
- Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
- jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
- optimizer tunings (Tom)
- Fix create user for pgaccess
- Fix for UNLISTEN failure
- IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
- QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
- Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
- Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
- Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
- Fix small memory leak (Tom)
- Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb (Tatsuo)
- Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
- Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
- Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
- Add SJIS UDC (NEC selection IBM kanji) support (Eiji Tokuya)
- Fix too long syslog message (Tatsuo)
- Fix problem with quoted indexes that are too long (Tom)
- JDBC ResultSet.getTimestamp() fix (Gregory Krasnow & Floyd Marinescu)
- ecpg changes (Michael)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 7.0
+Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
+Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
+Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
+New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
+Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
+jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
+optimizer tunings (Tom)
+Fix create user for pgaccess
+Fix for UNLISTEN failure
+IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
+QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
+Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
+Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
+Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
+Fix small memory leak (Tom)
+Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb (Tatsuo)
+Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
+Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
+Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
+Add SJIS UDC (NEC selection IBM kanji) support (Eiji Tokuya)
+Fix too long syslog message (Tatsuo)
+Fix problem with quoted indexes that are too long (Tom)
+JDBC ResultSet.getTimestamp() fix (Gregory Krasnow & Floyd Marinescu)
+ecpg changes (Michael)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                Release 7.0
 
      Release date: 2000-05-08
 
    This release contains improvements in many areas, demonstrating the
-   continued growth of PostgreSQL. There are more improvements and fixes in
-   7.0 than in any previous release. The developers have confidence that this
-   is the best release yet; we do our best to put out only solid releases,
-   and this one is no exception.
+   continued growth of PostgreSQL. There are more improvements and fixes
+   in 7.0 than in any previous release. The developers have confidence
+   that this is the best release yet; we do our best to put out only
+   solid releases, and this one is no exception.
 
    Major changes in this release:
 
    Foreign Keys
-
-           Foreign keys are now implemented, with the exception of PARTIAL
-           MATCH foreign keys. Many users have been asking for this feature,
-           and we are pleased to offer it.
+          Foreign keys are now implemented, with the exception of PARTIAL
+          MATCH foreign keys. Many users have been asking for this
+          feature, and we are pleased to offer it.
 
    Optimizer Overhaul
-
-           Continuing on work started a year ago, the optimizer has been
-           improved, allowing better query plan selection and faster
-           performance with less memory usage.
+          Continuing on work started a year ago, the optimizer has been
+          improved, allowing better query plan selection and faster
+          performance with less memory usage.
 
    Updated psql
-
-           psql, our interactive terminal monitor, has been updated with a
-           variety of new features. See the psql manual page for details.
+          psql, our interactive terminal monitor, has been updated with a
+          variety of new features. See the psql manual page for details.
 
    Join Syntax
+          SQL92 join syntax is now supported, though only as INNER JOIN
+          for this release. JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, JOIN/USING, and JOIN/ON
+          are available, as are column correlation names.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           SQL92 join syntax is now supported, though only as INNER JOINs for
-           this release. JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, JOIN/USING, JOIN/ON are
-           available, as are column correlation names.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 7.0
+                          Migration to version 7.0
 
-   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data
-   from any previous release of PostgreSQL. For those upgrading from 6.5.*,
-   you may instead use pg_upgrade to upgrade to this release; however, a full
-   dump/reload installation is always the most robust method for upgrades.
+   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
+   data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. For those upgrading from
+   6.5.*, you may instead use pg_upgrade to upgrade to this release;
+   however, a full dump/reload installation is always the most robust
+   method for upgrades.
 
    Interface and compatibility issues to consider for the new release
    include:
 
-     * The date/time types datetime and timespan have been superseded by the
-       SQL92-defined types timestamp and interval. Although there has been
-       some effort to ease the transition by allowing PostgreSQL to recognize
-       the deprecated type names and translate them to the new type names,
-       this mechanism may not be completely transparent to your existing
-       application.
-
+     * The date/time types datetime and timespan have been superseded by
+       the SQL92-defined types timestamp and interval. Although there has
+       been some effort to ease the transition by allowing PostgreSQL to
+       recognize the deprecated type names and translate them to the new
+       type names, this mechanism may not be completely transparent to
+       your existing application.
      * The optimizer has been substantially improved in the area of query
-       cost estimation. In some cases, this will result in decreased query
-       times as the optimizer makes a better choice for the preferred plan.
-       However, in a small number of cases, usually involving pathological
-       distributions of data, your query times may go up. If you are dealing
-       with large amounts of data, you may want to check your queries to
-       verify performance.
-
+       cost estimation. In some cases, this will result in decreased
+       query times as the optimizer makes a better choice for the
+       preferred plan. However, in a small number of cases, usually
+       involving pathological distributions of data, your query times may
+       go up. If you are dealing with large amounts of data, you may want
+       to check your queries to verify performance.
      * The JDBC and ODBC interfaces have been upgraded and extended.
-
      * The string function CHAR_LENGTH is now a native function. Previous
-       versions translated this into a call to LENGTH, which could result in
-       ambiguity with other types implementing LENGTH such as the geometric
-       types.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Prevent function calls exceeding maximum number of arguments (Tom)
- Improve CASE construct (Tom)
- Fix SELECT coalesce(f1,0) FROM int4_tbl GROUP BY f1 (Tom)
- Fix SELECT sentence.words[0] FROM sentence GROUP BY sentence.words[0] (Tom)
- Fix GROUP BY scan bug (Tom)
- Improvements in SQL grammar processing (Tom)
- Fix for views involved in INSERT ... SELECT ... (Tom)
- Fix for SELECT a/2, a/2 FROM test_missing_target GROUP BY a/2 (Tom)
- Fix for subselects in INSERT ... SELECT (Tom)
- Prevent INSERT ... SELECT ... ORDER BY (Tom)
- Fixes for relations greater than 2GB, including vacuum
- Improve propagating system table changes to other backends (Tom)
- Improve propagating user table changes to other backends (Tom)
- Fix handling of temp tables in complex situations (Bruce, Tom)
- Allow table locking at table open, improving concurrent reliability (Tom)
- Properly quote sequence names in pg_dump (Ross J. Reedstrom)
- Prevent DROP DATABASE while others accessing
- Prevent any rows from being returned by GROUP BY if no rows processed (Tom)
- Fix SELECT COUNT(1) FROM table WHERE ...' if no rows matching WHERE (Tom)
- Fix pg_upgrade so it works for MVCC (Tom)
- Fix for SELECT ... WHERE x IN (SELECT ... HAVING SUM(x) > 1) (Tom)
- Fix for "f1 datetime DEFAULT 'now'"  (Tom)
- Fix problems with CURRENT_DATE used in DEFAULT (Tom)
- Allow comment-only lines, and ;;; lines too. (Tom)
- Improve recovery after failed disk writes, disk full (Hiroshi)
- Fix cases where table is mentioned in FROM but not joined (Tom)
- Allow HAVING clause without aggregate functions (Tom)
- Fix for "--" comment and no trailing newline, as seen in perl interface
- Improve pg_dump failure error reports (Bruce)
- Allow sorts and hashes to exceed 2GB file sizes (Tom)
- Fix for pg_dump dumping of inherited rules (Tom)
- Fix for NULL handling comparisons (Tom)
- Fix inconsistent state caused by failed CREATE/DROP commands (Hiroshi)
- Fix for dbname with dash
- Prevent DROP INDEX from interfering with other backends (Tom)
- Fix file descriptor leak in verify_password()
- Fix for "Unable to identify an operator =$" problem
- Fix ODBC so no segfault if CommLog and Debug enabled (Dirk Niggemann)
- Fix for recursive exit call (Massimo)
- Fix for extra-long timezones (Jeroen van Vianen)
- Make pg_dump preserve primary key information (Peter E)
- Prevent databases with single quotes (Peter E)
- Prevent DROP DATABASE inside  transaction (Peter E)
- ecpg memory leak fixes (Stephen Birch)
- Fix for SELECT null::text, SELECT int4fac(null) and SELECT 2 + (null) (Tom)
- Y2K timestamp fix (Massimo)
- Fix for VACUUM 'HEAP_MOVED_IN was not expected' errors (Tom)
- Fix for views with tables/columns containing spaces  (Tom)
- Prevent permissions on indexes (Peter E)
- Fix for spinlock stuck problem when error is generated (Hiroshi)
- Fix ipcclean on Linux
- Fix handling of NULL constraint conditions (Tom)
- Fix memory leak in odbc driver (Nick Gorham)
- Fix for permission check on UNION tables (Tom)
- Fix to allow SELECT 'a' LIKE 'a' (Tom)
- Fix for SELECT 1 + NULL (Tom)
- Fixes to CHAR
- Fix log() on numeric type (Tom)
- 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)
- 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 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)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- New CLI interface include file sqlcli.h, based on SQL3/SQL98
- Remove all limits on query length, row length limit still exists (Tom)
- Update jdbc protocol to 2.0 (Jens Glaser <jens@jens.de>)
- Add TRUNCATE command to quickly truncate relation (Mike Mascari)
- Fix to give super user and createdb user proper update catalog rights (Peter E)
- Allow ecpg bool variables to have NULL values (Christof)
- Issue ecpg error if NULL value for variable with no NULL indicator (Christof)
- Allow ^C to cancel COPY command (Massimo)
- Add SET FSYNC and SHOW PG_OPTIONS commands(Massimo)
- Function name overloading for dynamically-loaded C functions (Frankpitt)
- Add CmdTuples() to libpq++(Vince)
- New CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and SET CONSTRAINTS commands(Jan)
- Allow CREATE FUNCTION/WITH clause to be used for all language types
- configure --enable-debug adds -g (Peter E)
- configure --disable-debug removes -g (Peter E)
- Allow more complex default expressions (Tom)
- First real FOREIGN KEY constraint trigger functionality (Jan)
- Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH FULL ... ON DELETE CASCADE (Jan)
- Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH <unspecified> referential actions (Don Baccus)
- Allow WHERE restriction on ctid (physical heap location) (Hiroshi)
- Move pginterface from contrib to interface directory, rename to pgeasy (Bruce)
- Change pgeasy connectdb() parameter ordering (Bruce)
- Require SELECT DISTINCT target list to have all ORDER BY columns (Tom)
- Add Oracle's COMMENT ON command (Mike Mascari <mascarim@yahoo.com>)
- libpq's PQsetNoticeProcessor function now returns previous hook(Peter E)
- Prevent PQsetNoticeProcessor from being set to NULL (Peter E)
- Make USING in COPY optional (Bruce)
- Allow subselects in the target list (Tom)
- Allow subselects on the left side of comparison operators (Tom)
- New parallel regression test (Jan)
- Change backend-side COPY to write files with permissions 644 not 666 (Tom)
- Force permissions on PGDATA directory to be secure, even if it exists (Tom)
- Added psql LASTOID variable to return last inserted oid (Peter E)
- Allow concurrent vacuum and remove pg_vlock vacuum lock file (Tom)
- Add permissions check for vacuum (Peter E)
- New libpq functions to allow asynchronous connections: PQconnectStart(),
-    PQconnectPoll(), PQresetStart(), PQresetPoll(), PQsetenvStart(),
-    PQsetenvPoll(), PQsetenvAbort (Ewan Mellor)
- New libpq PQsetenv() function (Ewan Mellor)
- create/alter user extension (Peter E)
- New postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts under $PGDATA (Tatsuo)
- New scripts for create/drop user/db (Peter E)
- Major psql overhaul (Peter E)
- Add const to libpq interface (Peter E)
- New libpq function PQoidValue (Peter E)
- Show specific non-aggregate causing problem with GROUP BY (Tom)
- Make changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd file (Peter E)
- Add aggregate(DISTINCT ...) (Tom)
- Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs (Peter E)
- Make postgres user have a password by default (Peter E)
- Add CREATE/ALTER/DROP GROUP (Peter E)
- All administration scripts now support --long options (Peter E, Karel)
- Vacuumdb script now supports --all option (Peter E)
- ecpg new portable FETCH syntax
- Add ecpg EXEC SQL IFDEF, EXEC SQL IFNDEF, EXEC SQL ELSE, EXEC SQL ELIF
-         and EXEC SQL ENDIF directives
- Add pg_ctl script to control backend start-up (Tatsuo)
- Add postmaster.opts.default file to store start-up flags (Tatsuo)
- Allow --with-mb=SQL_ASCII
- Increase maximum number of index keys to 16 (Bruce)
- Increase maximum number of function arguments to 16 (Bruce)
- Allow configuration of maximum number of index keys and arguments (Bruce)
- Allow unprivileged users to change their passwords (Peter E)
- Password authentication enabled; required for new users (Peter E)
- Disallow dropping a user who owns a database (Peter E)
- Change initdb option --with-mb to --enable-multibyte
- Add option for initdb to prompts for superuser password (Peter E)
- Allow complex type casts like col::numeric(9,2) and col::int2::float8 (Tom)
- Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E)
- New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions (Tatsuo)
- Libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
- Improve conversion of types in casts that don't specify a length
- New plperl internal programming language (Mark Hollomon)
- Allow COPY IN to read file that do not end with a newline (Tom)
- Indicate when long identifiers are truncated (Tom)
- Allow aggregates to use type equivalency (Peter E)
- Add Oracle's to_char(), to_date(), to_datetime(), to_timestamp(), to_number()
-         conversion functions (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
- Add SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ... (Tom)
- Check to be sure ORDER BY is compatible with the DISTINCT operation (Tom)
- Add NUMERIC and int8 types to ODBC
- Improve EXPLAIN results for Append, Group, Agg, Unique (Tom)
- Add ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY (Stephan Szabo)
- Allow SELECT .. FOR UPDATE in PL/pgSQL (Hiroshi)
- Enable backward sequential scan even after reaching EOF (Hiroshi)
- Add btree indexing of boolean values, >= and <= (Don Baccus)
- Print current line number when COPY FROM fails (Massimo)
- Recognize POSIX time zone e.g. "PST+8" and "GMT-8" (Thomas)
- Add DEC as synonym for DECIMAL (Thomas)
- Add SESSION_USER as SQL92 keyword, same as CURRENT_USER (Thomas)
- Implement SQL92 column aliases (aka correlation names) (Thomas)
- Implement SQL92 join syntax (Thomas)
- Make INTERVAL reserved word allowed as a column identifier (Thomas)
- Implement REINDEX command (Hiroshi)
- Accept ALL in aggregate function SUM(ALL col) (Tom)
- Prevent GROUP BY from using column aliases (Tom)
- New psql \encoding option (Tatsuo)
- Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state (Hiroshi)
- Allow negation of a negative number in all cases
- Add ecpg descriptors (Christof, Michael)
- Allow CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT f1::char(8) FROM tbl
- Allow casts with length, like foo::char(8)
- New libpq functions PQsetClientEncoding(), PQclientEncoding() (Tatsuo)
- Add support for SJIS user defined characters (Tatsuo)
- Larger views/rules supported
- Make libpq's PQconndefaults() thread-safe (Tom)
- Disable // as comment to be ANSI conforming, should use -- (Tom)
- Allow column aliases on views CREATE VIEW name (collist)
- Fixes for views with subqueries (Tom)
- Allow UPDATE table SET fld = (SELECT ...) (Tom)
- SET command options no longer require quotes
- Update pgaccess to 0.98.6
- New SET SEED command
- New pg_options.sample file
- 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)
-
- Types
- -----
- Many array fixes (Tom)
- Allow bare column names to be subscripted as arrays (Tom)
- Improve type casting of int and float constants (Tom)
- Cleanups for int8 inputs, range checking, and type conversion (Tom)
- Fix for SELECT timespan('21:11:26'::time) (Tom)
- netmask('x.x.x.x/0') is 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0 (Oleg Sharoiko)
- Add btree index on NUMERIC (Jan)
- Perl fix for large objects containing NUL characters (Douglas Thomson)
- ODBC fix for for large objects (free)
- Fix indexing of cidr data type
- Fix for Ethernet MAC addresses (macaddr type) comparisons
- Fix for date/time types when overflows happened in computations (Tom)
- Allow array on int8 (Peter E)
- Fix for rounding/overflow of NUMERIC type, like NUMERIC(4,4) (Tom)
- Allow NUMERIC arrays
- Fix bugs in NUMERIC ceil() and floor() functions (Tom)
- Make char_length()/octet_length including trailing blanks (Tom)
- Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (Peter E)
- New lztext data type for compressed text fields
- Revise code to handle coercion of int and float constants (Tom)
- Start at new code to implement a BIT and BIT VARYING type (Adriaan Joubert)
- NUMERIC now accepts scientific notation (Tom)
- NUMERIC to int4 rounds (Tom)
- Convert float4/8 to NUMERIC properly (Tom)
- Allow type conversion with NUMERIC (Thomas)
- Make ISO date style (2000-02-16 09:33) the default (Thomas)
- Add NATIONAL CHAR [ VARYING ] (Thomas)
- Allow NUMERIC round and trunc to accept negative scales (Tom)
- New TIME WITH TIME ZONE type (Thomas)
- Add MAX()/MIN() on time type (Thomas)
- Add abs(), mod(), fac() for int8 (Thomas)
- Rename functions to round(), sqrt(), cbrt(), pow() for float8 (Thomas)
- Add transcendental math functions (e.g. sin(), acos()) for float8 (Thomas)
- Add exp() and ln() for NUMERIC type
- Rename NUMERIC power() to pow() (Thomas)
- Improved TRANSLATE() function (Edwin Ramirez, Tom)
- Allow X=-Y operators  (Tom)
- Allow SELECT float8(COUNT(*))/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t) FROM t GROUP BY f1; (Tom)
- Allow LOCALE to use indexes in regular expression searches (Tom)
- Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
-
- Performance
- -----------
- Prevent exponential space consumption with many AND's and OR's (Tom)
- Collect attribute selectivity values for system columns (Tom)
- Reduce memory usage of aggregates (Tom)
- Fix for LIKE optimization to use indexes with multibyte encodings (Tom)
- Fix r-tree index optimizer selectivity (Thomas)
- Improve optimizer selectivity computations and functions (Tom)
- Optimize btree searching for cases where many equal keys exist (Tom)
- Enable fast LIKE index processing only if index present (Tom)
- Re-use free space on index pages with duplicates (Tom)
- Improve hash join processing (Tom)
- Prevent descending sort if result is already sorted(Hiroshi)
- Allow commuting of index scan query qualifications (Tom)
- Prefer index scans in cases where ORDER BY/GROUP BY is required (Tom)
- Allocate large memory requests in fix-sized chunks for performance (Tom)
- Fix vacuum's performance by reducing memory allocation requests (Tom)
- Implement constant-expression simplification (Bernard Frankpitt, Tom)
- Use secondary columns to be used to determine start of index scan (Hiroshi)
- Prevent quadruple use of disk space when doing internal sorting (Tom)
- Faster sorting by calling fewer functions (Tom)
- Create system indexes to match all system caches (Bruce, Hiroshi)
- Make system caches use system indexes (Bruce)
- Make all system indexes unique (Bruce)
- Improve pg_statistics management for VACUUM speed improvement (Tom)
- Flush backend cache less frequently (Tom, Hiroshi)
- COPY now reuses previous memory allocation, improving performance (Tom)
- Improve optimization cost estimation (Tom)
- Improve optimizer estimate of range queries x > lowbound AND x < highbound (Tom)
- Use DNF instead of CNF where appropriate (Tom, Taral)
- Further cleanup for OR-of-AND WHERE-clauses (Tom)
- Make use of index in OR clauses (x = 1 AND y = 2) OR (x = 2 AND y = 4) (Tom)
- Smarter optimizer computations for random index page access (Tom)
- New SET variable to control optimizer costs (Tom)
- Optimizer queries based on LIMIT, OFFSET, and EXISTS qualifications (Tom)
- Reduce optimizer internal housekeeping of join paths for speedup (Tom)
- Major subquery speedup (Tom)
- Fewer fsync writes when fsync is not disabled (Tom)
- Improved LIKE optimizer estimates (Tom)
- Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries (Vadim)
- Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster (Tom)
- Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
-
- Source Tree Changes
- -------------------
- Fix for linux PPC compile
- New generic expression-tree-walker subroutine (Tom)
- Change form() to varargform() to prevent portability problems
- Improved range checking for large integers on Alphas
- Clean up #include in /include directory (Bruce)
- Add scripts for checking includes (Bruce)
- Remove un-needed #include's from *.c files (Bruce)
- Change #include's to use <> and "" as appropriate (Bruce)
- Enable WIN32 compilation of libpq
- Alpha spinlock fix from Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>
- Overhaul of optimizer data structures (Tom)
- Fix to cygipc library (Yutaka Tanida)
- Allow pgsql to work on newer Cygwin snapshots (Dan)
- New catalog version number (Tom)
- Add Linux ARM
- Rename heap_replace to heap_update
- Update for QNX (Dr. Andreas Kardos)
- New platform-specific regression handling (Tom)
- Rename oid8 -> oidvector and int28 -> int2vector (Bruce)
- Included all yacc and lex files into the distribution (Peter E.)
- Remove lextest, no longer needed (Peter E)
- Fix for libpq and psql on Win32 (Magnus)
- Internally change datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval (Thomas)
- Fix for plpgsql on BSDI
- Add SQL_ASCII test case to the regression test (Tatsuo)
- configure --with-mb now deprecated (Tatsuo)
- NT fixes
- NetBSD fixes (Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>)
- Fixes for Alpha compiles
- New multibyte encodings
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.5.3
+       versions translated this into a call to LENGTH, which could result
+       in ambiguity with other types implementing LENGTH such as the
+       geometric types.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Prevent function calls exceeding maximum number of arguments (Tom)
+Improve CASE construct (Tom)
+Fix SELECT coalesce(f1,0) FROM int4_tbl GROUP BY f1 (Tom)
+Fix SELECT sentence.words[0] FROM sentence GROUP BY sentence.words[0] (Tom)
+Fix GROUP BY scan bug (Tom)
+Improvements in SQL grammar processing (Tom)
+Fix for views involved in INSERT ... SELECT ... (Tom)
+Fix for SELECT a/2, a/2 FROM test_missing_target GROUP BY a/2 (Tom)
+Fix for subselects in INSERT ... SELECT (Tom)
+Prevent INSERT ... SELECT ... ORDER BY (Tom)
+Fixes for relations greater than 2GB, including vacuum
+Improve propagating system table changes to other backends (Tom)
+Improve propagating user table changes to other backends (Tom)
+Fix handling of temp tables in complex situations (Bruce, Tom)
+Allow table locking at table open, improving concurrent reliability (Tom)
+Properly quote sequence names in pg_dump (Ross J. Reedstrom)
+Prevent DROP DATABASE while others accessing
+Prevent any rows from being returned by GROUP BY if no rows processed (Tom)
+Fix SELECT COUNT(1) FROM table WHERE ...' if no rows matching WHERE (Tom)
+Fix pg_upgrade so it works for MVCC (Tom)
+Fix for SELECT ... WHERE x IN (SELECT ... HAVING SUM(x) > 1) (Tom)
+Fix for "f1 datetime DEFAULT 'now'"  (Tom)
+Fix problems with CURRENT_DATE used in DEFAULT (Tom)
+Allow comment-only lines, and ;;; lines too. (Tom)
+Improve recovery after failed disk writes, disk full (Hiroshi)
+Fix cases where table is mentioned in FROM but not joined (Tom)
+Allow HAVING clause without aggregate functions (Tom)
+Fix for "--" comment and no trailing newline, as seen in perl interface
+Improve pg_dump failure error reports (Bruce)
+Allow sorts and hashes to exceed 2GB file sizes (Tom)
+Fix for pg_dump dumping of inherited rules (Tom)
+Fix for NULL handling comparisons (Tom)
+Fix inconsistent state caused by failed CREATE/DROP commands (Hiroshi)
+Fix for dbname with dash
+Prevent DROP INDEX from interfering with other backends (Tom)
+Fix file descriptor leak in verify_password()
+Fix for "Unable to identify an operator =$" problem
+Fix ODBC so no segfault if CommLog and Debug enabled (Dirk Niggemann)
+Fix for recursive exit call (Massimo)
+Fix for extra-long timezones (Jeroen van Vianen)
+Make pg_dump preserve primary key information (Peter E)
+Prevent databases with single quotes (Peter E)
+Prevent DROP DATABASE inside  transaction (Peter E)
+ecpg memory leak fixes (Stephen Birch)
+Fix for SELECT null::text, SELECT int4fac(null) and SELECT 2 + (null) (Tom)
+Y2K timestamp fix (Massimo)
+Fix for VACUUM 'HEAP_MOVED_IN was not expected' errors (Tom)
+Fix for views with tables/columns containing spaces  (Tom)
+Prevent privileges on indexes (Peter E)
+Fix for spinlock stuck problem when error is generated (Hiroshi)
+Fix ipcclean on Linux
+Fix handling of NULL constraint conditions (Tom)
+Fix memory leak in odbc driver (Nick Gorham)
+Fix for privilege check on UNION tables (Tom)
+Fix to allow SELECT 'a' LIKE 'a' (Tom)
+Fix for SELECT 1 + NULL (Tom)
+Fixes to CHAR
+Fix log() on numeric type (Tom)
+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)
+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 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)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+New CLI interface include file sqlcli.h, based on SQL3/SQL98
+Remove all limits on query length, row length limit still exists (Tom)
+Update jdbc protocol to 2.0 (Jens Glaser <jens@jens.de>)
+Add TRUNCATE command to quickly truncate relation (Mike Mascari)
+Fix to give super user and createdb user proper update catalog rights (Peter E)
+Allow ecpg bool variables to have NULL values (Christof)
+Issue ecpg error if NULL value for variable with no NULL indicator (Christof)
+Allow ^C to cancel COPY command (Massimo)
+Add SET FSYNC and SHOW PG_OPTIONS commands(Massimo)
+Function name overloading for dynamically-loaded C functions (Frankpitt)
+Add CmdTuples() to libpq++(Vince)
+New CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and SET CONSTRAINTS commands(Jan)
+Allow CREATE FUNCTION/WITH clause to be used for all language types
+configure --enable-debug adds -g (Peter E)
+configure --disable-debug removes -g (Peter E)
+Allow more complex default expressions (Tom)
+First real FOREIGN KEY constraint trigger functionality (Jan)
+Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH FULL ... ON DELETE CASCADE (Jan)
+Add FOREIGN KEY ... MATCH <unspecified> referential actions (Don Baccus)
+Allow WHERE restriction on ctid (physical heap location) (Hiroshi)
+Move pginterface from contrib to interface directory, rename to pgeasy (Bruce)
+Change pgeasy connectdb() parameter ordering (Bruce)
+Require SELECT DISTINCT target list to have all ORDER BY columns (Tom)
+Add Oracle's COMMENT ON command (Mike Mascari <mascarim@yahoo.com>)
+libpq's PQsetNoticeProcessor function now returns previous hook(Peter E)
+Prevent PQsetNoticeProcessor from being set to NULL (Peter E)
+Make USING in COPY optional (Bruce)
+Allow subselects in the target list (Tom)
+Allow subselects on the left side of comparison operators (Tom)
+New parallel regression test (Jan)
+Change backend-side COPY to write files with permissions 644 not 666 (Tom)
+Force permissions on PGDATA directory to be secure, even if it exists (Tom)
+Added psql LASTOID variable to return last inserted oid (Peter E)
+Allow concurrent vacuum and remove pg_vlock vacuum lock file (Tom)
+Add privilege check for vacuum (Peter E)
+New libpq functions to allow asynchronous connections: PQconnectStart(),
+   PQconnectPoll(), PQresetStart(), PQresetPoll(), PQsetenvStart(),
+   PQsetenvPoll(), PQsetenvAbort (Ewan Mellor)
+New libpq PQsetenv() function (Ewan Mellor)
+create/alter user extension (Peter E)
+New postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts under $PGDATA (Tatsuo)
+New scripts for create/drop user/db (Peter E)
+Major psql overhaul (Peter E)
+Add const to libpq interface (Peter E)
+New libpq function PQoidValue (Peter E)
+Show specific non-aggregate causing problem with GROUP BY (Tom)
+Make changes to pg_shadow recreate pg_pwd file (Peter E)
+Add aggregate(DISTINCT ...) (Tom)
+Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs (Peter E)
+Make postgres user have a password by default (Peter E)
+Add CREATE/ALTER/DROP GROUP (Peter E)
+All administration scripts now support --long options (Peter E, Karel)
+Vacuumdb script now supports --all option (Peter E)
+ecpg new portable FETCH syntax
+Add ecpg EXEC SQL IFDEF, EXEC SQL IFNDEF, EXEC SQL ELSE, EXEC SQL ELIF
+        and EXEC SQL ENDIF directives
+Add pg_ctl script to control backend start-up (Tatsuo)
+Add postmaster.opts.default file to store start-up flags (Tatsuo)
+Allow --with-mb=SQL_ASCII
+Increase maximum number of index keys to 16 (Bruce)
+Increase maximum number of function arguments to 16 (Bruce)
+Allow configuration of maximum number of index keys and arguments (Bruce)
+Allow unprivileged users to change their passwords (Peter E)
+Password authentication enabled; required for new users (Peter E)
+Disallow dropping a user who owns a database (Peter E)
+Change initdb option --with-mb to --enable-multibyte
+Add option for initdb to prompts for superuser password (Peter E)
+Allow complex type casts like col::numeric(9,2) and col::int2::float8 (Tom)
+Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E)
+New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions (Tatsuo)
+libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
+Improve conversion of types in casts that don't specify a length
+New plperl internal programming language (Mark Hollomon)
+Allow COPY IN to read file that do not end with a newline (Tom)
+Indicate when long identifiers are truncated (Tom)
+Allow aggregates to use type equivalency (Peter E)
+Add Oracle's to_char(), to_date(), to_datetime(), to_timestamp(), to_number()
+        conversion functions (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
+Add SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ... (Tom)
+Check to be sure ORDER BY is compatible with the DISTINCT operation (Tom)
+Add NUMERIC and int8 types to ODBC
+Improve EXPLAIN results for Append, Group, Agg, Unique (Tom)
+Add ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY (Stephan Szabo)
+Allow SELECT .. FOR UPDATE in PL/pgSQL (Hiroshi)
+Enable backward sequential scan even after reaching EOF (Hiroshi)
+Add btree indexing of boolean values, >= and <= (Don Baccus)
+Print current line number when COPY FROM fails (Massimo)
+Recognize POSIX time zone e.g. "PST+8" and "GMT-8" (Thomas)
+Add DEC as synonym for DECIMAL (Thomas)
+Add SESSION_USER as SQL92 key word, same as CURRENT_USER (Thomas)
+Implement SQL92 column aliases (aka correlation names) (Thomas)
+Implement SQL92 join syntax (Thomas)
+Make INTERVAL reserved word allowed as a column identifier (Thomas)
+Implement REINDEX command (Hiroshi)
+Accept ALL in aggregate function SUM(ALL col) (Tom)
+Prevent GROUP BY from using column aliases (Tom)
+New psql \encoding option (Tatsuo)
+Allow PQrequestCancel() to terminate when in waiting-for-lock state (Hiroshi)
+Allow negation of a negative number in all cases
+Add ecpg descriptors (Christof, Michael)
+Allow CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT f1::char(8) FROM tbl
+Allow casts with length, like foo::char(8)
+New libpq functions PQsetClientEncoding(), PQclientEncoding() (Tatsuo)
+Add support for SJIS user defined characters (Tatsuo)
+Larger views/rules supported
+Make libpq's PQconndefaults() thread-safe (Tom)
+Disable // as comment to be ANSI conforming, should use -- (Tom)
+Allow column aliases on views CREATE VIEW name (collist)
+Fixes for views with subqueries (Tom)
+Allow UPDATE table SET fld = (SELECT ...) (Tom)
+SET command options no longer require quotes
+Update pgaccess to 0.98.6
+New SET SEED command
+New pg_options.sample file
+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)
+
+Types
+-----
+Many array fixes (Tom)
+Allow bare column names to be subscripted as arrays (Tom)
+Improve type casting of int and float constants (Tom)
+Cleanups for int8 inputs, range checking, and type conversion (Tom)
+Fix for SELECT timespan('21:11:26'::time) (Tom)
+netmask('x.x.x.x/0') is 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0 (Oleg Sharoiko)
+Add btree index on NUMERIC (Jan)
+Perl fix for large objects containing NUL characters (Douglas Thomson)
+ODBC fix for for large objects (free)
+Fix indexing of cidr data type
+Fix for Ethernet MAC addresses (macaddr type) comparisons
+Fix for date/time types when overflows happened in computations (Tom)
+Allow array on int8 (Peter E)
+Fix for rounding/overflow of NUMERIC type, like NUMERIC(4,4) (Tom)
+Allow NUMERIC arrays
+Fix bugs in NUMERIC ceil() and floor() functions (Tom)
+Make char_length()/octet_length including trailing blanks (Tom)
+Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (Peter E)
+New lztext data type for compressed text fields
+Revise code to handle coercion of int and float constants (Tom)
+Start at new code to implement a BIT and BIT VARYING type (Adriaan Joubert)
+NUMERIC now accepts scientific notation (Tom)
+NUMERIC to int4 rounds (Tom)
+Convert float4/8 to NUMERIC properly (Tom)
+Allow type conversion with NUMERIC (Thomas)
+Make ISO date style (2000-02-16 09:33) the default (Thomas)
+Add NATIONAL CHAR [ VARYING ] (Thomas)
+Allow NUMERIC round and trunc to accept negative scales (Tom)
+New TIME WITH TIME ZONE type (Thomas)
+Add MAX()/MIN() on time type (Thomas)
+Add abs(), mod(), fac() for int8 (Thomas)
+Rename functions to round(), sqrt(), cbrt(), pow() for float8 (Thomas)
+Add transcendental math functions (e.g. sin(), acos()) for float8 (Thomas)
+Add exp() and ln() for NUMERIC type
+Rename NUMERIC power() to pow() (Thomas)
+Improved TRANSLATE() function (Edwin Ramirez, Tom)
+Allow X=-Y operators  (Tom)
+Allow SELECT float8(COUNT(*))/(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t) FROM t GROUP BY f1; (Tom
+)
+Allow LOCALE to use indexes in regular expression searches (Tom)
+Allow creation of functional indexes to use default types
+
+Performance
+-----------
+Prevent exponential space consumption with many AND's and OR's (Tom)
+Collect attribute selectivity values for system columns (Tom)
+Reduce memory usage of aggregates (Tom)
+Fix for LIKE optimization to use indexes with multibyte encodings (Tom)
+Fix r-tree index optimizer selectivity (Thomas)
+Improve optimizer selectivity computations and functions (Tom)
+Optimize btree searching for cases where many equal keys exist (Tom)
+Enable fast LIKE index processing only if index present (Tom)
+Re-use free space on index pages with duplicates (Tom)
+Improve hash join processing (Tom)
+Prevent descending sort if result is already sorted(Hiroshi)
+Allow commuting of index scan query qualifications (Tom)
+Prefer index scans in cases where ORDER BY/GROUP BY is required (Tom)
+Allocate large memory requests in fix-sized chunks for performance (Tom)
+Fix vacuum's performance by reducing memory allocation requests (Tom)
+Implement constant-expression simplification (Bernard Frankpitt, Tom)
+Use secondary columns to be used to determine start of index scan (Hiroshi)
+Prevent quadruple use of disk space when doing internal sorting (Tom)
+Faster sorting by calling fewer functions (Tom)
+Create system indexes to match all system caches (Bruce, Hiroshi)
+Make system caches use system indexes (Bruce)
+Make all system indexes unique (Bruce)
+Improve pg_statistics management for VACUUM speed improvement (Tom)
+Flush backend cache less frequently (Tom, Hiroshi)
+COPY now reuses previous memory allocation, improving performance (Tom)
+Improve optimization cost estimation (Tom)
+Improve optimizer estimate of range queries x > lowbound AND x < highbound (Tom
+)
+Use DNF instead of CNF where appropriate (Tom, Taral)
+Further cleanup for OR-of-AND WHERE-clauses (Tom)
+Make use of index in OR clauses (x = 1 AND y = 2) OR (x = 2 AND y = 4) (Tom)
+Smarter optimizer computations for random index page access (Tom)
+New SET variable to control optimizer costs (Tom)
+Optimizer queries based on LIMIT, OFFSET, and EXISTS qualifications (Tom)
+Reduce optimizer internal housekeeping of join paths for speedup (Tom)
+Major subquery speedup (Tom)
+Fewer fsync writes when fsync is not disabled (Tom)
+Improved LIKE optimizer estimates (Tom)
+Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries (Vadim)
+Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster (Tom)
+Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
+
+Source Tree Changes
+-------------------
+Fix for linux PPC compile
+New generic expression-tree-walker subroutine (Tom)
+Change form() to varargform() to prevent portability problems
+Improved range checking for large integers on Alphas
+Clean up #include in /include directory (Bruce)
+Add scripts for checking includes (Bruce)
+Remove un-needed #include's from *.c files (Bruce)
+Change #include's to use <> and "" as appropriate (Bruce)
+Enable Windows compilation of libpq
+Alpha spinlock fix from Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>
+Overhaul of optimizer data structures (Tom)
+Fix to cygipc library (Yutaka Tanida)
+Allow pgsql to work on newer Cygwin snapshots (Dan)
+New catalog version number (Tom)
+Add Linux ARM
+Rename heap_replace to heap_update
+Update for QNX (Dr. Andreas Kardos)
+New platform-specific regression handling (Tom)
+Rename oid8 -> oidvector and int28 -> int2vector (Bruce)
+Included all yacc and lex files into the distribution (Peter E.)
+Remove lextest, no longer needed (Peter E)
+Fix for libpq and psql on Windows (Magnus)
+Internally change datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval (Thomas)
+Fix for plpgsql on BSD/OS
+Add SQL_ASCII test case to the regression test (Tatsuo)
+configure --with-mb now deprecated (Tatsuo)
+NT fixes
+NetBSD fixes (Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>)
+Fixes for Alpha compiles
+New multibyte encodings
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 6.5.3
 
      Release date: 1999-10-13
 
    This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5.2. We have added a new
    PgAccess that was missing in 6.5.2, and installed an NT-specific fix.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 6.5.3
+                         Migration to version 6.5.3
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
+                                  Changes
 
- Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
- NT-specific patch
- Fix dumping rules on inherited tables
-     
+Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
+NT-specific patch
+Fix dumping rules on inherited tables
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 6.5.2
+                               Release 6.5.2
 
      Release date: 1999-09-15
 
-   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5.1. We have fixed a variety of
-   problems reported by 6.5.1 users.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5.1. We have fixed a variety
+   of problems reported by 6.5.1 users.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 6.5.2
+                         Migration to version 6.5.2
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
- Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
- Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
- Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
- Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indexes(Thomas)
- Improve it so that it checks for multi-column constraints(Thomas)
- Fix for Win32 making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
- Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
- Fix SET NAMES working
- int8 fixes(Thomas)
- Fix vacuum's memory consumption(Hiroshi,Tatsuo)
- Reduce the total memory consumption of vacuum(Tom)
- Fix for timestamp(datetime)
- Rule deparsing bugfixes(Tom)
- Fix quoting problems in mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in and mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh.in(Tom)
- This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Vadim)
- document -x for pg_dump(Bruce)
- Fix for unary operators in rule deparser(Tom)
- Comment out FileUnlink of excess segments during mdtruncate()(Tom)
- Irix linking fix from Yu Cao >yucao@falcon.kla-tencor.com<
- Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
-    when reach end of pattern before end of text(Tom)
- Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom)
- Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.5.1
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1999-07-15
+subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
+Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
+Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
+Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
+Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indexes(Thomas)
+Improve it so that it checks for multicolumn constraints(Thomas)
+Fix for Windows making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
+Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
+Fix SET NAMES working
+int8 fixes(Thomas)
+Fix vacuum's memory consumption(Hiroshi,Tatsuo)
+Reduce the total memory consumption of vacuum(Tom)
+Fix for timestamp(datetime)
+Rule deparsing bugfixes(Tom)
+Fix quoting problems in mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in and mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh.in(To
+m)
+This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Vadim)
+document -x for pg_dump(Bruce)
+Fix for unary operators in rule deparser(Tom)
+Comment out FileUnlink of excess segments during mdtruncate()(Tom)
+IRIX linking fix from Yu Cao >yucao@falcon.kla-tencor.com<
+Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
+   when reach end of pattern before end of text(Tom)
+Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom
+)
+Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5. We have fixed a variety of
-   problems reported by 6.5 users.
+                               Release 6.5.1
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     Release date: 1999-07-15
+
+   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5. We have fixed a variety
+   of problems reported by 6.5 users.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 6.5.1
+                         Migration to version 6.5.1
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Add NT README file
- Portability fixes for linux_ppc, Irix, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
- Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
- Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)
- Patch to allow vacuum on multi-segment tables(Hiroshi)
- R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)
- ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)
- New expresssion subtree code(Tom)
- Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)
- Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)
- Fix to prevent too large tuple from being created(Bruce)
- plpgsql fixes
- Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)
- Add ^ precidence(Bruce)
- Rename sort files called pg_temp to pg_sorttemp(Bruce)
- Fix for microseconds in time values(Tom)
- Tutorial source cleanup
- New linux_m68k port
- Fix for sorting of NULL's in some cases(Tom)
- Shared library dependencies fixed (Tom)
- Fixed glitches affecting GROUP BY in subselects(Tom)
- Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)
- Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 6.5
+Add NT README file
+Portability fixes for linux_ppc, IRIX, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
+Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
+Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)
+Patch to allow vacuum on multisegment tables(Hiroshi)
+R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)
+ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)
+New expresssion subtree code(Tom)
+Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)
+Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)
+Fix to prevent too large row from being created(Bruce)
+plpgsql fixes
+Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)
+Add ^ precidence(Bruce)
+Rename sort files called pg_temp to pg_sorttemp(Bruce)
+Fix for microseconds in time values(Tom)
+Tutorial source cleanup
+New linux_m68k port
+Fix for sorting of NULL's in some cases(Tom)
+Shared library dependencies fixed (Tom)
+Fixed glitches affecting GROUP BY in subselects(Tom)
+Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)
+Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                Release 6.5
 
      Release date: 1999-06-09
 
-   This release marks a major step in the development team's mastery of the
-   source code we inherited from Berkeley. You will see we are now easily
-   adding major features, thanks to the increasing size and experience of our
-   world-wide development team.
+   This release marks a major step in the development team's mastery of
+   the source code we inherited from Berkeley. You will see we are now
+   easily adding major features, thanks to the increasing size and
+   experience of our world-wide development team.
 
    Here is a brief summary of the more notable changes:
 
-   Multi-version concurrency control(MVCC)
-
-           This removes our old table-level locking, and replaces it with a
-           locking system that is superior to most commercial database
-           systems. In a traditional system, each row that is modified is
-           locked until committed, preventing reads by other users. MVCC uses
-           the natural multi-version nature of PostgreSQL to allow readers to
-           continue reading consistent data during writer activity. Writers
-           continue to use the compact pg_log transaction system. This is all
-           performed without having to allocate a lock for every row like
-           traditional database systems. So, basically, we no longer are
-           restricted by simple table-level locking; we have something better
-           than row-level locking.
+   Multiversion concurrency control(MVCC)
+          This removes our old table-level locking, and replaces it with
+          a locking system that is superior to most commercial database
+          systems. In a traditional system, each row that is modified is
+          locked until committed, preventing reads by other users. MVCC
+          uses the natural multiversion nature of PostgreSQL to allow
+          readers to continue reading consistent data during writer
+          activity. Writers continue to use the compact pg_log
+          transaction system. This is all performed without having to
+          allocate a lock for every row like traditional database
+          systems. So, basically, we no longer are restricted by simple
+          table-level locking; we have something better than row-level
+          locking.
 
    Hot backups from pg_dump
-
-           pg_dump takes advantage of the new MVCC features to give a
-           consistent database dump/backup while the database stays online
-           and available for queries.
+          pg_dump takes advantage of the new MVCC features to give a
+          consistent database dump/backup while the database stays online
+          and available for queries.
 
    Numeric data type
-
-           We now have a true numeric data type, with user-specified
-           precision.
+          We now have a true numeric data type, with user-specified
+          precision.
 
    Temporary tables
-
-           Temporary tables are guaranteed to have unique names within a
-           database session, and are destroyed on session exit.
+          Temporary tables are guaranteed to have unique names within a
+          database session, and are destroyed on session exit.
 
    New SQL features
-
-           We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement support. We have
-           new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL, SELECT ... FOR
-           UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
+          We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement support. We
+          have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL, SELECT
+          ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
 
    Speedups
-
-           We continue to speed up PostgreSQL, thanks to the variety of
-           talents within our team. We have sped up memory allocation,
-           optimization, table joins, and row transfer routines.
+          We continue to speed up PostgreSQL, thanks to the variety of
+          talents within our team. We have sped up memory allocation,
+          optimization, table joins, and row transfer routines.
 
    Ports
-
-           We continue to expand our port list, this time including Windows
-           NT/ix86 and NetBSD/arm32.
+          We continue to expand our port list, this time including
+          Windows NT/ix86 and NetBSD/arm32.
 
    Interfaces
-
-           Most interfaces have new versions, and existing functionality has
-           been improved.
+          Most interfaces have new versions, and existing functionality
+          has been improved.
 
    Documentation
+          New and updated material is present throughout the
+          documentation. New FAQs have been contributed for SGI and AIX
+          platforms. The Tutorial has introductory information on SQL
+          from Stefan Simkovics. For the User's Guide, there are
+          reference pages covering the postmaster and more utility
+          programs, and a new appendix contains details on date/time
+          behavior. The Administrator's Guide has a new chapter on
+          troubleshooting from Tom Lane. And the Programmer's Guide has a
+          description of query processing, also from Stefan, and details
+          on obtaining the PostgreSQL source tree via anonymous CVS and
+          CVSup.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-           New and updated material is present throughout the documentation.
-           New FAQs have been contributed for SGI and AIX platforms. The
-           Tutorial has introductory information on SQL from Stefan
-           Simkovics. For the User's Guide, there are reference pages
-           covering the postmaster and more utility programs, and a new
-           appendix contains details on date/time behavior. The
-           Administrator's Guide has a new chapter on troubleshooting from
-           Tom Lane. And the Programmer's Guide has a description of query
-           processing, also from Stefan, and details on obtaining the
-           PostgreSQL source tree via anonymous CVS and CVSup.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 6.5
-
-   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data
-   from any previous release of PostgreSQL. pg_upgrade can *not* be used to
-   upgrade to this release because the on-disk structure of the tables has
-   changed compared to previous releases.
+                          Migration to version 6.5
 
-   The new Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) features can give
-   somewhat different behaviors in multi-user environments. *Read and
-   understand the following section to ensure that your existing applications
-   will give you the behavior you need.*
+   A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
+   data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. pg_upgrade can *not* be
+   used to upgrade to this release because the on-disk structure of the
+   tables has changed compared to previous releases.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   The new Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) features can give
+   somewhat different behaviors in multiuser environments. *Read and
+   understand the following section to ensure that your existing
+   applications will give you the behavior you need.*
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-  Multi-Version Concurrency Control
+Multiversion Concurrency Control
 
    Because readers in 6.5 don't lock data, regardless of transaction
    isolation level, data read by one transaction can be overwritten by
-   another. In other words, if a row is returned by "SELECT" it doesn't mean
-   that this row really exists at the time it is returned (i.e. sometime
-   after the statement or transaction began) nor that the row is protected
-   from being deleted or updated by concurrent transactions before the
-   current transaction does a commit or rollback.
-
-   To ensure the actual existence of a row and protect it against concurrent
-   updates one must use "SELECT FOR UPDATE" or an appropriate "LOCK TABLE"
-   statement. This should be taken into account when porting applications
-   from previous releases of PostgreSQL and other environments.
-
-   Keep the above in mind if you are using "contrib/refint.*" triggers for
-   referential integrity. Additional techniques are required now. One way is
-   to use "LOCK parent_table IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE" command if a
-   transaction is going to update/delete a primary key and use "LOCK
+   another. In other words, if a row is returned by "SELECT" it doesn't
+   mean that this row really exists at the time it is returned (i.e.
+   sometime after the statement or transaction began) nor that the row is
+   protected from being deleted or updated by concurrent transactions
+   before the current transaction does a commit or rollback.
+
+   To ensure the actual existence of a row and protect it against
+   concurrent updates one must use "SELECT FOR UPDATE" or an appropriate
+   "LOCK TABLE" statement. This should be taken into account when porting
+   applications from previous releases of PostgreSQL and other
+   environments.
+
+   Keep the above in mind if you are using "contrib/refint.*" triggers
+   for referential integrity. Additional techniques are required now. One
+   way is to use "LOCK parent_table IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE" command
+   if a transaction is going to update/delete a primary key and use "LOCK
    parent_table IN SHARE MODE" command if a transaction is going to
    update/insert a foreign key.
 
-     Note: Note that if you run a transaction in SERIALIZABLE mode then you
-     must execute the "LOCK" commands above before execution of any DML
-     statement ("SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/FETCH/COPY_TO") in the
+     Note: Note that if you run a transaction in SERIALIZABLE mode then
+     you must execute the "LOCK" commands above before execution of any
+     DML statement ("SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/FETCH/COPY_TO") in the
      transaction.
 
-   These inconveniences will disappear in the future when the ability to read
-   dirty (uncommitted) data (regardless of isolation level) and true
+   These inconveniences will disappear in the future when the ability to
+   read dirty (uncommitted) data (regardless of isolation level) and true
    referential integrity will be implemented.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Fix text<->float8 and text<->float4 conversion functions(Thomas)
- Fix for creating tables with mixed-case constraints(Billy)
- Change exp()/pow() behavior to generate error on underflow/overflow(Jan)
- Fix bug in pg_dump -z
- Memory overrun cleanups(Tatsuo)
- Fix for lo_import crash(Tatsuo)
- Adjust handling of data type names to suppress double quotes(Thomas)
- Use type coercion for matching columns and DEFAULT(Thomas)
- Fix deadlock so it only checks once after one second of sleep(Bruce)
- Fixes for aggregates and PL/pgsql(Hiroshi)
- Fix for subquery crash(Vadim)
- Fix for libpq function PQfnumber and case-insensitive names(Bahman Rafatjoo)
- Fix for large object write-in-middle, no extra block, memory consumption(Tatsuo)
- Fix for pg_dump -d or -D and  quote special characters in INSERT
- Repair serious problems with dynahash(Tom)
- Fix INET/CIDR portability problems
- Fix problem with selectivity error in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN(Bruce)
- Fix executor so mergejoin of different column types works(Tom)
- Fix for Alpha OR selectivity bug
- Fix OR index selectivity problem(Bruce)
- Fix so \d shows proper length for char()/varchar()(Ryan)
- Fix tutorial code(Clark)
- Improve destroyuser checking(Oliver)
- Fix for Kerberos(Rodney McDuff)
- Fix for dropping database while dirty buffers(Bruce)
- Fix so sequence nextval() can be case-sensitive(Bruce)
- Fix !!= operator
- Drop buffers before destroying database files(Bruce)
- Fix case where executor evaluates functions twice(Tatsuo)
- Allow sequence nextval actions to be case-sensitive(Bruce)
- Fix optimizer indexing not working for negative numbers(Bruce)
- Fix for memory leak in executor with fjIsNull
- Fix for aggregate memory leaks(Erik Riedel)
- Allow username containing a dash GRANT permissions
- Cleanup of NULL in inet types
- Clean up system table bugs(Tom)
- Fix problems of PAGER and \? command(Masaaki Sakaida)
- Reduce default multi-segment file size limit to 1GB(Peter)
- Fix for dumping of CREATE OPERATOR(Tom)
- Fix for backward scanning of cursors(Hiroshi Inoue)
- Fix for COPY FROM STDIN when using \i(Tom)
- Fix for subselect is compared inside an expression(Jan)
- Fix handling of error reporting while returning rows(Tom)
- Fix problems with reference to array types(Tom,Jan)
- Prevent UPDATE SET oid(Jan)
- Fix pg_dump so -t option can handle case-sensitive tablenames
- Fixes for GROUP BY in special cases(Tom, Jan)
- Fix for memory leak in failed queries(Tom)
- DEFAULT now supports mixed-case identifiers(Tom)
- Fix for multi-segment uses of DROP/RENAME table, indexes(Ole Gjerde)
- Disable use of pg_dump with both -o and -d options(Bruce)
- Allow pg_dump to properly dump GROUP permissions(Bruce)
- Fix GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2(Jan)
- Fix for computations in views(Jan)
- Fix for aggregates on array indexes(Tom)
- Fix for DEFAULT handles single quotes in value requiring too many quotes
- Fix security problem with non-super users importing/exporting large objects(Tom)
- Rollback of transaction that creates table cleaned up properly(Tom)
- Fix to allow long table and column names to generate proper serial names(Tom)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Add "vacuumdb" utility
- Speed up libpq by allocating memory better(Tom)
- EXPLAIN all indexes used(Tom)
- Implement CASE, COALESCE, NULLIF  expression(Thomas)
- New pg_dump table output format(Constantin)
- Add string min()/max() functions(Thomas)
- Extend new type coercion techniques to aggregates(Thomas)
- New moddatetime contrib(Terry)
- Update to pgaccess 0.96(Constantin)
- Add routines for single-byte "char" type(Thomas)
- Improved substr() function(Thomas)
- Improved multibyte handling(Tatsuo)
- Multi-version concurrency control/MVCC(Vadim)
- New Serialized mode(Vadim)
- Fix for tables over 2gigs(Peter)
- New SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL(Vadim)
- New LOCK TABLE IN ... MODE(Vadim)
- Update ODBC driver(Byron)
- New NUMERIC data type(Jan)
- New SELECT FOR UPDATE(Vadim)
- Handle "NaN" and "Infinity" for input values(Jan)
- Improved date/year handling(Thomas)
- Improved handling of backend connections(Magnus)
- New options ELOG_TIMESTAMPS and USE_SYSLOG options for log files(Massimo)
- New TCL_ARRAYS option(Massimo)
- New INTERSECT and EXCEPT(Stefan)
- New pg_index.indisprimary for primary key tracking(D'Arcy)
- New pg_dump option to allow dropping of tables before creation(Brook)
- Speedup of row output routines(Tom)
- New READ COMMITTED isolation level(Vadim)
- New TEMP tables/indexes(Bruce)
- Prevent sorting if result is already sorted(Jan)
- New memory allocation optimization(Jan)
- Allow psql to do \p\g(Bruce)
- Allow multiple rule actions(Jan)
- Added LIMIT/OFFSET functionality(Jan)
- Improve optimizer when joining a large number of tables(Bruce)
- New intro to SQL from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan, Thomas)
- New intro to backend processing from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan)
- Improved int8 support(Ryan Bradetich, Thomas, Tom)
- New routines to convert between int8 and text/varchar types(Thomas)
- New bushy plans, where meta-tables are joined(Bruce)
- Enable right-hand queries by default(Bruce)
- Allow reliable maximum number of backends to be set at configure time
-       (--with-maxbackends and postmaster switch (-N backends))(Tom)
- GEQO default now 10 tables because of optimizer speedups(Tom)
- Allow NULL=Var for MS-SQL portability(Michael, Bruce)
- Modify contrib check_primary_key() so either "automatic" or "dependent"(Anand)
- Allow psql \d on a view show query(Ryan)
- Speedup for LIKE(Bruce)
- Ecpg fixes/features, see src/interfaces/ecpg/ChangeLog file(Michael)
- JDBC fixes/features, see src/interfaces/jdbc/CHANGELOG(Peter)
- Make % operator have precedence like /(Bruce)
- Add new postgres -O option to allow system table structure changes(Bruce)
- Update contrib/pginterface/findoidjoins script(Tom)
- Major speedup in vacuum of deleted rows with indexes(Vadim)
- Allow non-SQL functions to run different versions based on arguments(Tom)
- Add -E option that shows actual queries sent by \dt and friends(Masaaki Sakaida)
- Add version number in start-up banners for psql(Masaaki Sakaida)
- New contrib/vacuumlo removes large objects not referenced(Peter)
- New initialization for table sizes so non-vacuumed tables perform better(Tom)
- Improve error messages when a connection is rejected(Tom)
- Support for arrays of char() and varchar() fields(Massimo)
- Overhaul of hash code to increase reliability and performance(Tom)
- Update to PyGreSQL 2.4(D'Arcy)
- Changed debug options so -d4 and -d5 produce different node displays(Jan)
- New pg_options: pretty_plan, pretty_parse, pretty_rewritten(Jan)
- Better optimization statistics for system table access(Tom)
- Better handling of non-default block sizes(Massimo)
- Improve GEQO optimizer memory consumption(Tom)
- UNION now suppports ORDER BY of columns not in target list(Jan)
- Major libpq++ improvements(Vince Vielhaber)
- pg_dump now uses -z(ACL's) as default(Bruce)
- backend cache, memory speedups(Tom)
- have pg_dump do everything in one snapshot transaction(Vadim)
- fix for large object memory leakage, fix for pg_dumping(Tom)
- INET type now respects netmask for comparisons
- Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock(Vadim)
- Allow VIEWs on UNIONS(Jan)
- pg_dump now can generate consistent snapshots on active databases(Vadim)
-
- Source Tree Changes
- -------------------
- Improve port matching(Tom)
- Portability fixes for SunOS
- Add NT/Win32 backend port and enable dynamic loading(Magnus and Daniel Horak)
- New port to Cobalt Qube(Mips) running Linux(Tatsuo)
- Port to NetBSD/m68k(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
- Port to NetBSD/sun3(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
- Port to NetBSD/macppc(Toshimi Aoki)
- Fix for tcl/tk configuration(Vince)
- Removed CURRENT keyword for rule queries(Jan)
- NT dynamic loading now works(Daniel Horak)
- Add ARM32 support(Andrew McMurry)
- Better support for HPUX 11 and Unixware
- Improve file handling to be more uniform, prevent file descriptor leak(Tom)
- New install commands for plpgsql(Jan)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.4.2
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1998-12-20
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Fix text<->float8 and text<->float4 conversion functions(Thomas)
+Fix for creating tables with mixed-case constraints(Billy)
+Change exp()/pow() behavior to generate error on underflow/overflow(Jan)
+Fix bug in pg_dump -z
+Memory overrun cleanups(Tatsuo)
+Fix for lo_import crash(Tatsuo)
+Adjust handling of data type names to suppress double quotes(Thomas)
+Use type coercion for matching columns and DEFAULT(Thomas)
+Fix deadlock so it only checks once after one second of sleep(Bruce)
+Fixes for aggregates and PL/pgsql(Hiroshi)
+Fix for subquery crash(Vadim)
+Fix for libpq function PQfnumber and case-insensitive names(Bahman Rafatjoo)
+Fix for large object write-in-middle, no extra block, memory consumption(Tatsuo
+)
+Fix for pg_dump -d or -D and  quote special characters in INSERT
+Repair serious problems with dynahash(Tom)
+Fix INET/CIDR portability problems
+Fix problem with selectivity error in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN(Bruce)
+Fix executor so mergejoin of different column types works(Tom)
+Fix for Alpha OR selectivity bug
+Fix OR index selectivity problem(Bruce)
+Fix so \d shows proper length for char()/varchar()(Ryan)
+Fix tutorial code(Clark)
+Improve destroyuser checking(Oliver)
+Fix for Kerberos(Rodney McDuff)
+Fix for dropping database while dirty buffers(Bruce)
+Fix so sequence nextval() can be case-sensitive(Bruce)
+Fix !!= operator
+Drop buffers before destroying database files(Bruce)
+Fix case where executor evaluates functions twice(Tatsuo)
+Allow sequence nextval actions to be case-sensitive(Bruce)
+Fix optimizer indexing not working for negative numbers(Bruce)
+Fix for memory leak in executor with fjIsNull
+Fix for aggregate memory leaks(Erik Riedel)
+Allow user name containing a dash to grant privileges
+Cleanup of NULL in inet types
+Clean up system table bugs(Tom)
+Fix problems of PAGER and \? command(Masaaki Sakaida)
+Reduce default multisegment file size limit to 1GB(Peter)
+Fix for dumping of CREATE OPERATOR(Tom)
+Fix for backward scanning of cursors(Hiroshi Inoue)
+Fix for COPY FROM STDIN when using \i(Tom)
+Fix for subselect is compared inside an expression(Jan)
+Fix handling of error reporting while returning rows(Tom)
+Fix problems with reference to array types(Tom,Jan)
+Prevent UPDATE SET oid(Jan)
+Fix pg_dump so -t option can handle case-sensitive tablenames
+Fixes for GROUP BY in special cases(Tom, Jan)
+Fix for memory leak in failed queries(Tom)
+DEFAULT now supports mixed-case identifiers(Tom)
+Fix for multisegment uses of DROP/RENAME table, indexes(Ole Gjerde)
+Disable use of pg_dump with both -o and -d options(Bruce)
+Allow pg_dump to properly dump group privileges(Bruce)
+Fix GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2(Jan)
+Fix for computations in views(Jan)
+Fix for aggregates on array indexes(Tom)
+Fix for DEFAULT handles single quotes in value requiring too many quotes
+Fix security problem with non-super users importing/exporting large objects(Tom
+)
+Rollback of transaction that creates table cleaned up properly(Tom)
+Fix to allow long table and column names to generate proper serial names(Tom)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Add "vacuumdb" utility
+Speed up libpq by allocating memory better(Tom)
+EXPLAIN all indexes used(Tom)
+Implement CASE, COALESCE, NULLIF  expression(Thomas)
+New pg_dump table output format(Constantin)
+Add string min()/max() functions(Thomas)
+Extend new type coercion techniques to aggregates(Thomas)
+New moddatetime contrib(Terry)
+Update to pgaccess 0.96(Constantin)
+Add routines for single-byte "char" type(Thomas)
+Improved substr() function(Thomas)
+Improved multibyte handling(Tatsuo)
+Multiversion concurrency control/MVCC(Vadim)
+New Serialized mode(Vadim)
+Fix for tables over 2gigs(Peter)
+New SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL(Vadim)
+New LOCK TABLE IN ... MODE(Vadim)
+Update ODBC driver(Byron)
+New NUMERIC data type(Jan)
+New SELECT FOR UPDATE(Vadim)
+Handle "NaN" and "Infinity" for input values(Jan)
+Improved date/year handling(Thomas)
+Improved handling of backend connections(Magnus)
+New options ELOG_TIMESTAMPS and USE_SYSLOG options for log files(Massimo)
+New TCL_ARRAYS option(Massimo)
+New INTERSECT and EXCEPT(Stefan)
+New pg_index.indisprimary for primary key tracking(D'Arcy)
+New pg_dump option to allow dropping of tables before creation(Brook)
+Speedup of row output routines(Tom)
+New READ COMMITTED isolation level(Vadim)
+New TEMP tables/indexes(Bruce)
+Prevent sorting if result is already sorted(Jan)
+New memory allocation optimization(Jan)
+Allow psql to do \p\g(Bruce)
+Allow multiple rule actions(Jan)
+Added LIMIT/OFFSET functionality(Jan)
+Improve optimizer when joining a large number of tables(Bruce)
+New intro to SQL from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan, Thomas)
+New intro to backend processing from S. Simkovics' Master's Thesis (Stefan)
+Improved int8 support(Ryan Bradetich, Thomas, Tom)
+New routines to convert between int8 and text/varchar types(Thomas)
+New bushy plans, where meta-tables are joined(Bruce)
+Enable right-hand queries by default(Bruce)
+Allow reliable maximum number of backends to be set at configure time
+      (--with-maxbackends and postmaster switch (-N backends))(Tom)
+GEQO default now 10 tables because of optimizer speedups(Tom)
+Allow NULL=Var for MS-SQL portability(Michael, Bruce)
+Modify contrib check_primary_key() so either "automatic" or "dependent"(Anand)
+Allow psql \d on a view show query(Ryan)
+Speedup for LIKE(Bruce)
+Ecpg fixes/features, see src/interfaces/ecpg/ChangeLog file(Michael)
+JDBC fixes/features, see src/interfaces/jdbc/CHANGELOG(Peter)
+Make % operator have precedence like /(Bruce)
+Add new postgres -O option to allow system table structure changes(Bruce)
+Update contrib/pginterface/findoidjoins script(Tom)
+Major speedup in vacuum of deleted rows with indexes(Vadim)
+Allow non-SQL functions to run different versions based on arguments(Tom)
+Add -E option that shows actual queries sent by \dt and friends(Masaaki Sakaida
+)
+Add version number in start-up banners for psql(Masaaki Sakaida)
+New contrib/vacuumlo removes large objects not referenced(Peter)
+New initialization for table sizes so non-vacuumed tables perform better(Tom)
+Improve error messages when a connection is rejected(Tom)
+Support for arrays of char() and varchar() fields(Massimo)
+Overhaul of hash code to increase reliability and performance(Tom)
+Update to PyGreSQL 2.4(D'Arcy)
+Changed debug options so -d4 and -d5 produce different node displays(Jan)
+New pg_options: pretty_plan, pretty_parse, pretty_rewritten(Jan)
+Better optimization statistics for system table access(Tom)
+Better handling of non-default block sizes(Massimo)
+Improve GEQO optimizer memory consumption(Tom)
+UNION now suppports ORDER BY of columns not in target list(Jan)
+Major libpq++ improvements(Vince Vielhaber)
+pg_dump now uses -z(ACL's) as default(Bruce)
+backend cache, memory speedups(Tom)
+have pg_dump do everything in one snapshot transaction(Vadim)
+fix for large object memory leakage, fix for pg_dumping(Tom)
+INET type now respects netmask for comparisons
+Make VACUUM ANALYZE only use a readlock(Vadim)
+Allow VIEWs on UNIONS(Jan)
+pg_dump now can generate consistent snapshots on active databases(Vadim)
+
+Source Tree Changes
+-------------------
+Improve port matching(Tom)
+Portability fixes for SunOS
+Add Windows NT backend port and enable dynamic loading(Magnus and Daniel Horak)
+New port to Cobalt Qube(Mips) running Linux(Tatsuo)
+Port to NetBSD/m68k(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
+Port to NetBSD/sun3(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
+Port to NetBSD/macppc(Toshimi Aoki)
+Fix for tcl/tk configuration(Vince)
+Removed CURRENT key word for rule queries(Jan)
+NT dynamic loading now works(Daniel Horak)
+Add ARM32 support(Andrew McMurry)
+Better support for HP-UX 11 and UnixWare
+Improve file handling to be more uniform, prevent file descriptor leak(Tom)
+New install commands for plpgsql(Jan)
 
-   The 6.4.1 release was improperly packaged. This also has one additional
-   bug fix.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                               Release 6.4.2
 
-Migration to version 6.4.2
+     Release date: 1998-12-20
 
-   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.4.*.
+   The 6.4.1 release was improperly packaged. This also has one
+   additional bug fix.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+                         Migration to version 6.4.2
 
-Changes
+   A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.4.*.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
- Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
+                                  Changes
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                 Release 6.4.1
+                               Release 6.4.1
 
      Release date: 1998-12-18
 
-   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.4. We have fixed a variety of
-   problems reported by 6.4 users.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   This is basically a cleanup release for 6.4. We have fixed a variety
+   of problems reported by 6.4 users.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 6.4.1
+                         Migration to version 6.4.1
 
    A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.4.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers.  This is
-         the default(Thomas)
- Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce)
- EXPLAIN VERBOSE coredump fix(Vadim)
- Fix shared-library problems on Linux
- Fix test for table existance to allow mixed-case and whitespace in
-         the table name(Thomas)
- Fix a couple of pg_dump bugs
- Configure matches template/.similar entries better(Tom)
- Change builtin function names from SPI_* to spi_*
- OR WHERE clause fix(Vadim)
- Fixes for mixed-case table names(Billy)
- contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh/sh fix(Thomas)
- libpq memory overrun fix
- SunOS fixes(Tom)
- Change exp() behavior to generate error on underflow(Thomas)
- pg_dump fixes for memory leak, inheritance constraints, layout change
- update pgaccess to 0.93
- Fix prototype for 64-bit platforms
- Multibyte fixes(Tatsuo)
- New ecpg man page
- Fix memory overruns(Tatsuo)
- Fix for lo_import() crash(Bruce)
- Better search for install program(Tom)
- Timezone fixes(Tom)
- HPUX fixes(Tom)
- Use implicit type coercion for matching DEFAULT values(Thomas)
- Add routines to help with single-byte (internal) character type(Thomas)
- Compilation of libpq for Win32 fixes(Magnus)
- Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 6.4
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1998-10-30
+Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers.  This is
+        the default(Thomas)
+Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce)
+EXPLAIN VERBOSE coredump fix(Vadim)
+Fix shared-library problems on Linux
+Fix test for table existence to allow mixed-case and whitespace in
+        the table name(Thomas)
+Fix a couple of pg_dump bugs
+Configure matches template/.similar entries better(Tom)
+Change builtin function names from SPI_* to spi_*
+OR WHERE clause fix(Vadim)
+Fixes for mixed-case table names(Billy)
+contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh/sh fix(Thomas)
+libpq memory overrun fix
+SunOS fixes(Tom)
+Change exp() behavior to generate error on underflow(Thomas)
+pg_dump fixes for memory leak, inheritance constraints, layout change
+update pgaccess to 0.93
+Fix prototype for 64-bit platforms
+Multibyte fixes(Tatsuo)
+New ecpg man page
+Fix memory overruns(Tatsuo)
+Fix for lo_import() crash(Bruce)
+Better search for install program(Tom)
+Timezone fixes(Tom)
+HP-UX fixes(Tom)
+Use implicit type coercion for matching DEFAULT values(Thomas)
+Add routines to help with single-byte (internal) character type(Thomas)
+Compilation of libpq for Windows fixes(Magnus)
+Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   There are *many* new features and improvements in this release. Thanks to
-   our developers and maintainers, nearly every aspect of the system has
-   received some attention since the previous release. Here is a brief,
-   incomplete summary:
+                                Release 6.4
 
-     * Views and rules are now functional thanks to extensive new code in the
-       rewrite rules system from Jan Wieck. He also wrote a chapter on it for
-       the Programmer's Guide.
+     Release date: 1998-10-30
+
+   There are *many* new features and improvements in this release. Thanks
+   to our developers and maintainers, nearly every aspect of the system
+   has received some attention since the previous release. Here is a
+   brief, incomplete summary:
 
+     * Views and rules are now functional thanks to extensive new code in
+       the rewrite rules system from Jan Wieck. He also wrote a chapter
+       on it for the Programmer's Guide.
      * Jan also contributed a second procedural language, PL/pgSQL, to go
        with the original PL/pgTCL procedural language he contributed last
        release.
+     * We have optional multiple-byte character set support from Tatsuo
+       Ishii to complement our existing locale support.
+     * Client/server communications has been cleaned up, with better
+       support for asynchronous messages and interrupts thanks to Tom
+       Lane.
+     * The parser will now perform automatic type coercion to match
+       arguments to available operators and functions, and to match
+       columns and expressions with target columns. This uses a generic
+       mechanism which supports the type extensibility features of
+       PostgreSQL. There is a new chapter in the User's Guide which
+       covers this topic.
+     * Three new data types have been added. Two types, inet and cidr,
+       support various forms of IP network, subnet, and machine
+       addressing. There is now an 8-byte integer type available on some
+       platforms. See the chapter on data types in the User's Guide for
+       details. A fourth type, serial, is now supported by the parser as
+       an amalgam of the int4 type, a sequence, and a unique index.
+     * Several more SQL92-compatible syntax features have been added,
+       including "INSERT DEFAULT VALUES"
+     * The automatic configuration and installation system has received
+       some attention, and should be more robust for more platforms than
+       it has ever been.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * We have optional multiple-byte character set support from Tatsuo Iishi
-       to complement our existing locale support.
-
-     * Client/server communications has been cleaned up, with better support
-       for asynchronous messages and interrupts thanks to Tom Lane.
+                          Migration to version 6.4
 
-     * The parser will now perform automatic type coercion to match arguments
-       to available operators and functions, and to match columns and
-       expressions with target columns. This uses a generic mechanism which
-       supports the type extensibility features of PostgreSQL. There is a new
-       chapter in the User's Guide which covers this topic.
+   A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those
+   wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * Three new data types have been added. Two types, inet and cidr,
-       support various forms of IP network, subnet, and machine addressing.
-       There is now an 8-byte integer type available on some platforms. See
-       the chapter on data types in the User's Guide for details. A fourth
-       type, serial, is now supported by the parser as an amalgam of the int4
-       type, a sequence, and a unique index.
+                                  Changes
 
-     * Several more SQL92-compatible syntax features have been added,
-       including "INSERT DEFAULT VALUES"
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Fix for a tiny memory leak in PQsetdb/PQfinish(Bryan)
+Remove char2-16 data types, use char/varchar(Darren)
+Pqfn not handles a NOTICE message(Anders)
+Reduced busywaiting overhead for spinlocks with many backends (dg)
+Stuck spinlock detection (dg)
+Fix up "ISO-style" timespan decoding and encoding(Thomas)
+Fix problem with table drop after rollback of transaction(Vadim)
+Change error message and remove non-functional update message(Vadim)
+Fix for COPY array checking
+Fix for SELECT 1 UNION SELECT NULL
+Fix for buffer leaks in large object calls(Pascal)
+Change owner from oid to int4 type(Bruce)
+Fix a bug in the oracle compatibility functions btrim() ltrim() and rtrim()
+Fix for shared invalidation cache overflow(Massimo)
+Prevent file descriptor leaks in failed COPY's(Bruce)
+Fix memory leak in libpgtcl's pg_select(Constantin)
+Fix problems with username/passwords over 8 characters(Tom)
+Fix problems with handling of asynchronous NOTIFY in backend(Tom)
+Fix of many bad system table entries(Tom)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Upgrade ecpg and ecpglib,see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
+Show the index used in an EXPLAIN(Zeugswetter)
+EXPLAIN  invokes  rule system and shows plan(s) for rewritten queries(Jan)
+Multibyte awareness of many data types and functions, via configure(Tatsuo)
+New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
+New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
+New createdb -E multibyte option(Tatsuo)
+Select version(); now returns PostgreSQL version(Jeroen)
+libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
+Allow cancel from client of backend query(Tom)
+psql now cancels query with Control-C(Tom)
+libpq users need not issue dummy queries to get NOTIFY messages(Tom)
+NOTIFY now sends sender's PID, so you can tell whether it was your own(Tom)
+PGresult struct now includes associated error message, if any(Tom)
+Define "tz_hour" and "tz_minute" arguments to date_part()(Thomas)
+Add routines to convert between varchar and bpchar(Thomas)
+Add routines to allow sizing of varchar and bpchar into target columns(Thomas)
+Add bit flags to support timezonehour and minute in data retrieval(Thomas)
+Allow more variations on valid floating point numbers (e.g. ".1", "1e6")(Thomas
+)
+Fixes for unary minus parsing with leading spaces(Thomas)
+Implement TIMEZONE_HOUR, TIMEZONE_MINUTE per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
+Check for and properly ignore FOREIGN KEY column constraints(Thomas)
+Define USER as synonym for CURRENT_USER per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
+Enable HAVING clause but no fixes elsewhere yet.
+Make "char" type a synonym for "char(1)" (actually implemented as bpchar)(Thoma
+s)
+Save string type if specified for DEFAULT clause handling(Thomas)
+Coerce operations involving different data types(Thomas)
+Allow some index use for columns of different types(Thomas)
+Add capabilities for automatic type conversion(Thomas)
+Cleanups for large objects, so file is truncated on open(Peter)
+Readline cleanups(Tom)
+Allow psql  \f \ to make spaces as delimiter(Bruce)
+Pass pg_attribute.atttypmod to the frontend for column field lengths(Tom,Bruce)
+Msql compatibility library in /contrib(Aldrin)
+Remove the requirement that ORDER/GROUP BY clause identifiers be
+included in the target list(David)
+Convert columns to match columns in UNION clauses(Thomas)
+Remove fork()/exec() and only do fork()(Bruce)
+Jdbc cleanups(Peter)
+Show backend status on ps command line(only works on some platforms)(Bruce)
+Pg_hba.conf now has a sameuser option in the database field
+Make lo_unlink take oid param, not int4
+New DISABLE_COMPLEX_MACRO for compilers that can't handle our macros(Bruce)
+Libpgtcl now handles NOTIFY as a Tcl event, need not send dummy queries(Tom)
+libpgtcl cleanups(Tom)
+Add -error option to libpgtcl's pg_result command(Tom)
+New locale patch, see docs/README/locale(Oleg)
+Fix for pg_dump so CONSTRAINT and CHECK syntax is correct(ccb)
+New contrib/lo code for large object orphan removal(Peter)
+New psql command "SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'encoding'" for multibytes
+feature, see /doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
+contrib/noupdate code to revoke update permission on a column
+libpq can now be compiled on Windows(Magnus)
+Add PQsetdbLogin() in libpq
+New 8-byte integer type, checked by configure for OS support(Thomas)
+Better support for quoted table/column names(Thomas)
+Surround table and column names with double-quotes in pg_dump(Thomas)
+PQreset() now works with passwords(Tom)
+Handle case of GROUP BY target list column number out of range(David)
+Allow UNION in subselects
+Add auto-size to screen to \d? commands(Bruce)
+Use UNION to show all \d? results in one query(Bruce)
+Add \d? field search feature(Bruce)
+Pg_dump issues fewer \connect requests(Tom)
+Make pg_dump -z flag work better, document it in manual page(Tom)
+Add HAVING clause with full support for subselects and unions(Stephan)
+Full text indexing routines in contrib/fulltextindex(Maarten)
+Transaction ids now stored in shared memory(Vadim)
+New PGCLIENTENCODING when issuing COPY command(Tatsuo)
+Support for SQL92 syntax "SET NAMES"(Tatsuo)
+Support for LATIN2-5(Tatsuo)
+Add UNICODE regression test case(Tatsuo)
+Lock manager cleanup, new locking modes for LLL(Vadim)
+Allow index use with OR clauses(Bruce)
+Allows "SELECT NULL ORDER BY 1;"
+Explain VERBOSE prints the plan, and now pretty-prints the plan to
+the postmaster log file(Bruce)
+Add indexes display to \d command(Bruce)
+Allow GROUP BY on functions(David)
+New pg_class.relkind for large objects(Bruce)
+New way to send libpq NOTICE messages to a different location(Tom)
+New \w write command to psql(Bruce)
+New /contrib/findoidjoins scans oid columns to find join relationships(Bruce)
+Allow binary-compatible indexes to be considered when checking for valid
+Indexes for restriction clauses containing a constant(Thomas)
+New ISBN/ISSN code in /contrib/isbn_issn
+Allow NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, BETWEEN, and NOT BETWEEN constraint(Thomas)
+New rewrite system fixes many problems with rules and views(Jan)
+        * Rules on relations work
+        * Event qualifications on insert/update/delete work
+        * New OLD variable to reference CURRENT, CURRENT will be remove in futu
+re
+        * Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in rule qualifications/actions
+        * Insert/update/delete rules on views work
+        * Multiple rule actions are now supported, surrounded by parentheses
+        * Regular users can create views/rules on tables they have RULE permits
+        * Rules and views inherit the privileges of the creator
+        * No rules at the column level
+        * No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
+        * New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
+        * Only a single action on SELECT rules
+        * Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
+        * handle subselects
+        * handle aggregates on views
+        * handle insert into select from view works
+System indexes are now multikey(Bruce)
+Oidint2, oidint4, and oidname types are removed(Bruce)
+Use system cache for more system table lookups(Bruce)
+New backend programming language PL/pgSQL in backend/pl(Jan)
+New SERIAL data type, auto-creates sequence/index(Thomas)
+Enable assert checking without a recompile(Massimo)
+User lock enhancements(Massimo)
+New setval() command to set sequence value(Massimo)
+Auto-remove unix socket file on start-up if no postmaster running(Massimo)
+Conditional trace package(Massimo)
+New UNLISTEN command(Massimo)
+psql and libpq now compile under Windows using win32.mak(Magnus)
+Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
+Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
+Createuser options now availble on the command line
+Code for 64-bit integer supported added, configure tested, int8 type(Thomas)
+Prevent file descriptor leaf from failed COPY(Bruce)
+New pg_upgrade command(Bruce)
+Updated /contrib directories(Massimo)
+New CREATE TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
+New INSERT INTO TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
+New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
+libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
+Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
+Remove ARCHIVE key word, that is no longer used(Thomas)
+pg_dump -n flag to supress quotes around indentifiers
+disable system columns for views(Jan)
+new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
+no more double quotes in psql output
+pg_dump now dumps views(Terry)
+new SET QUERY_LIMIT(Tatsuo,Jan)
+
+Source Tree Changes
+-------------------
+/contrib cleanup(Jun)
+Inline some small functions called for every row(Bruce)
+Alpha/linux fixes
+HP-UX cleanups(Tom)
+Multibyte regression tests(Soonmyung.)
+Remove --disabled options from configure
+Define PGDOC to use POSTGRESDIR by default
+Make regression optional
+Remove extra braces code to pgindent(Bruce)
+Add bsdi shared library support(Bruce)
+New --without-CXX support configure option(Brook)
+New FAQ_CVS
+Update backend flowchart in tools/backend(Bruce)
+Change atttypmod from int16 to int32(Bruce, Tom)
+Getrusage() fix for platforms that do not have it(Tom)
+Add PQconnectdb, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD to libpq man page
+NS32K platform fixes(Phil Nelson, John Buller)
+SCO 7/UnixWare 2.x fixes(Billy,others)
+Sparc/Solaris 2.5 fixes(Ryan)
+Pgbuiltin.3 is obsolete, move to doc files(Thomas)
+Even more documention(Thomas)
+Nextstep support(Jacek)
+Aix support(David)
+pginterface manual page(Bruce)
+shared libraries all have version numbers
+merged all OS-specific shared library defines into one file
+smarter TCL/TK configuration checking(Billy)
+smarter perl configuration(Brook)
+configure uses supplied install-sh if no install script found(Tom)
+new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom)
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * The automatic configuration and installation system has received some
-       attention, and should be more robust for more platforms than it has
-       ever been.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 6.4
-
-   A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing
-   to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Fix for a tiny memory leak in PQsetdb/PQfinish(Bryan)
- Remove char2-16 data types, use char/varchar(Darren)
- Pqfn not handles a NOTICE message(Anders)
- Reduced busywaiting overhead for spinlocks with many backends (dg)
- Stuck spinlock detection (dg)
- Fix up "ISO-style" timespan decoding and encoding(Thomas)
- Fix problem with table drop after rollback of transaction(Vadim)
- Change error message and remove non-functional update message(Vadim)
- Fix for COPY array checking
- Fix for SELECT 1 UNION SELECT NULL
- Fix for buffer leaks in large object calls(Pascal)
- Change owner from oid to int4 type(Bruce)
- Fix a bug in the oracle compatibility functions btrim() ltrim() and rtrim()
- Fix for shared invalidation cache overflow(Massimo)
- Prevent file descriptor leaks in failed COPY's(Bruce)
- Fix memory leak in libpgtcl's pg_select(Constantin)
- Fix problems with username/passwords over 8 characters(Tom)
- Fix problems with handling of asynchronous NOTIFY in backend(Tom)
- Fix of many bad system table entries(Tom)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Upgrade ecpg and ecpglib,see src/interfaces/ecpc/ChangeLog(Michael)
- Show the index used in an EXPLAIN(Zeugswetter)
- EXPLAIN  invokes  rule system and shows plan(s) for rewritten queries(Jan)
- Multibyte awareness of many data types and functions, via configure(Tatsuo)
- New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
- New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
- New createdb -E multibyte option(Tatsuo)
- Select version(); now returns PostgreSQL version(Jeroen)
- Libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
- Allow cancel from client of backend query(Tom)
- Psql now cancels query with Control-C(Tom)
- Libpq users need not issue dummy queries to get NOTIFY messages(Tom)
- NOTIFY now sends sender's PID, so you can tell whether it was your own(Tom)
- PGresult struct now includes associated error message, if any(Tom)
- Define "tz_hour" and "tz_minute" arguments to date_part()(Thomas)
- Add routines to convert between varchar and bpchar(Thomas)
- Add routines to allow sizing of varchar and bpchar into target columns(Thomas)
- Add bit flags to support timezonehour and minute in data retrieval(Thomas)
- Allow more variations on valid floating point numbers (e.g. ".1", "1e6")(Thomas)
- Fixes for unary minus parsing with leading spaces(Thomas)
- Implement TIMEZONE_HOUR, TIMEZONE_MINUTE per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
- Check for and properly ignore FOREIGN KEY column constraints(Thomas)
- Define USER as synonym for CURRENT_USER per SQL92 specs(Thomas)
- Enable HAVING clause but no fixes elsewhere yet.
- Make "char" type a synonym for "char(1)" (actually implemented as bpchar)(Thomas)
- Save string type if specified for DEFAULT clause handling(Thomas)
- Coerce operations involving different data types(Thomas)
- Allow some index use for columns of different types(Thomas)
- Add capabilities for automatic type conversion(Thomas)
- Cleanups for large objects, so file is truncated on open(Peter)
- Readline cleanups(Tom)
- Allow psql  \f \ to make spaces as delimiter(Bruce)
- Pass pg_attribute.atttypmod to the frontend for column field lengths(Tom,Bruce)
- Msql compatibility library in /contrib(Aldrin)
- Remove the requirement that ORDER/GROUP BY clause identifiers be
- included in the target list(David)
- Convert columns to match columns in UNION clauses(Thomas)
- Remove fork()/exec() and only do fork()(Bruce)
- Jdbc cleanups(Peter)
- Show backend status on ps command line(only works on some platforms)(Bruce)
- Pg_hba.conf now has a sameuser option in the database field
- Make lo_unlink take oid param, not int4
- New DISABLE_COMPLEX_MACRO for compilers that can't handle our macros(Bruce)
- Libpgtcl now handles NOTIFY as a Tcl event, need not send dummy queries(Tom)
- libpgtcl cleanups(Tom)
- Add -error option to libpgtcl's pg_result command(Tom)
- New locale patch, see docs/README/locale(Oleg)
- Fix for pg_dump so CONSTRAINT and CHECK syntax is correct(ccb)
- New contrib/lo code for large object orphan removal(Peter)
- New psql command "SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'encoding'" for multibytes
- feature, see /doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
- /contrib/noupdate code to revoke update permission on a column
- Libpq can now be compiled on win32(Magnus)
- Add PQsetdbLogin() in libpq
- New 8-byte integer type, checked by configure for OS support(Thomas)
- Better support for quoted table/column names(Thomas)
- Surround table and column names with double-quotes in pg_dump(Thomas)
- PQreset() now works with passwords(Tom)
- Handle case of GROUP BY target list column number out of range(David)
- Allow UNION in subselects
- Add auto-size to screen to \d? commands(Bruce)
- Use UNION to show all \d? results in one query(Bruce)
- Add \d? field search feature(Bruce)
- Pg_dump issues fewer \connect requests(Tom)
- Make pg_dump -z flag work better, document it in manual page(Tom)
- Add HAVING clause with full support for subselects and unions(Stephan)
- Full text indexing routines in contrib/fulltextindex(Maarten)
- Transaction ids now stored in shared memory(Vadim)
- New PGCLIENTENCODING when issuing COPY command(Tatsuo)
- Support for SQL92 syntax "SET NAMES"(Tatsuo)
- Support for LATIN2-5(Tatsuo)
- Add UNICODE regression test case(Tatsuo)
- Lock manager cleanup, new locking modes for LLL(Vadim)
- Allow index use with OR clauses(Bruce)
- Allows "SELECT NULL ORDER BY 1;"
- Explain VERBOSE prints the plan, and now pretty-prints the plan to
- the postmaster log file(Bruce)
- Add indexes display to \d command(Bruce)
- Allow GROUP BY on functions(David)
- New pg_class.relkind for large objects(Bruce)
- New way to send libpq NOTICE messages to a different location(Tom)
- New \w write command to psql(Bruce)
- New /contrib/findoidjoins scans oid columns to find join relationships(Bruce)
- Allow binary-compatible indexes to be considered when checking for valid
- Indexes for restriction clauses containing a constant(Thomas)
- New ISBN/ISSN code in /contrib/isbn_issn
- Allow NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, BETWEEN, and NOT BETWEEN constraint(Thomas)
- New rewrite system fixes many problems with rules and views(Jan)
-         * Rules on relations work
-         * Event qualifications on insert/update/delete work
-         * New OLD variable to reference CURRENT, CURRENT will be remove in future
-         * Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in rule qualifications/actions
-         * Insert/update/delete rules on views work
-         * Multiple rule actions are now supported, surrounded by parentheses
-         * Regular users can create views/rules on tables they have RULE permits
-         * Rules and views inherit the permissions on the creator
-         * No rules at the column level
-         * No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
-         * New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
-         * Only a single action on SELECT rules
-         * Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
-         * handle subselects
-         * handle aggregates on views
-         * handle insert into select from view works
- System indexes are now multi-key(Bruce)
- Oidint2, oidint4, and oidname types are removed(Bruce)
- Use system cache for more system table lookups(Bruce)
- New backend programming language PL/pgSQL in backend/pl(Jan)
- New SERIAL data type, auto-creates sequence/index(Thomas)
- Enable assert checking without a recompile(Massimo)
- User lock enhancements(Massimo)
- New setval() command to set sequence value(Massimo)
- Auto-remove unix socket file on start-up if no postmaster running(Massimo)
- Conditional trace package(Massimo)
- New UNLISTEN command(Massimo)
- Psql and libpq now compile under win32 using win32.mak(Magnus)
- Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
- Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
- Createuser options now availble on the command line
- Code for 64-bit integer supported added, configure tested, int8 type(Thomas)
- Prevent file descriptor leaf from failed COPY(Bruce)
- New pg_upgrade command(Bruce)
- Updated /contrib directories(Massimo)
- New CREATE TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
- New INSERT INTO TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
- New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
- libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
- Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
- Remove ARCHIVE keyword, that is no longer used(Thomas)
- pg_dump -n flag to supress quotes around indentifiers
- disable system columns for views(Jan)
- new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
- no more double quotes in psql output
- pg_dump now dumps views(Terry)
- new SET QUERY_LIMIT(Tatsuo,Jan)
-
- Source Tree Changes
- -------------------
- /contrib cleanup(Jun)
- Inline some small functions called for every row(Bruce)
- Alpha/linux fixes
- Hp/UX cleanups(Tom)
- Multibyte regression tests(Soonmyung.)
- Remove --disabled options from configure
- Define PGDOC to use POSTGRESDIR by default
- Make regression optional
- Remove extra braces code to pgindent(Bruce)
- Add bsdi shared library support(Bruce)
- New --without-CXX support configure option(Brook)
- New FAQ_CVS
- Update backend flowchart in tools/backend(Bruce)
- Change atttypmod from int16 to int32(Bruce, Tom)
- Getrusage() fix for platforms that do not have it(Tom)
- Add PQconnectdb, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD to libpq man page
- NS32K platform fixes(Phil Nelson, John Buller)
- Sco 7/UnixWare 2.x fixes(Billy,others)
- Sparc/Solaris 2.5 fixes(Ryan)
- Pgbuiltin.3 is obsolete, move to doc files(Thomas)
- Even more documention(Thomas)
- Nextstep support(Jacek)
- Aix support(David)
- pginterface manual page(Bruce)
- shared libraries all have version numbers
- merged all OS-specific shared library defines into one file
- smarter TCL/TK configuration checking(Billy)
- smarter perl configuration(Brook)
- configure uses supplied install-sh if no install script found(Tom)
- new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.3.2
+                               Release 6.3.2
 
      Release date: 1998-04-07
 
@@ -2225,364 +2213,355 @@ Changes
 
    Summary:
 
-     * Repairs automatic configuration support for some platforms, including
-       Linux, from breakage inadvertently introduced in version 6.3.1.
-
-     * Correctly handles function calls on the left side of BETWEEN and LIKE
-       clauses.
+     * Repairs automatic configuration support for some platforms,
+       including Linux, from breakage inadvertently introduced in version
+       6.3.1.
+     * Correctly handles function calls on the left side of BETWEEN and
+       LIKE clauses.
 
    A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3 or 6.3.1. A make
-   distclean, make, and make install is all that is required. This last step
-   should be performed while the postmaster is not running. You should
-   re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
+   distclean, make, and make install is all that is required. This last
+   step should be performed while the postmaster is not running. You
+   should re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
 
    For upgrades from pre-6.3 installations, refer to the installation and
    migration instructions for version 6.3.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Configure detection improvements for tcl/tk(Brook Milligan, Alvin)
- Manual page improvements(Bruce)
- BETWEEN and LIKE fix(Thomas)
- fix for psql \connect used by pg_dump(Oliver Elphick)
- New odbc driver
- pgaccess, version 0.86
- qsort removed, now uses libc version, cleanups(Jeroen)
- fix for buffer over-runs detected(Maurice Gittens)
- fix for buffer overrun in libpgtcl(Randy Kunkee)
- fix for UNION with DISTINCT or ORDER BY(Bruce)
- gettimeofday configure check(Doug Winterburn)
- Fix "indexes not used" bug(Vadim)
- docs additions(Thomas)
- Fix for backend memory leak(Bruce)
- libreadline cleanup(Erwan MAS)
- Remove DISTDIR(Bruce)
- Makefile dependency cleanup(Jeroen van Vianen)
- ASSERT fixes(Bruce)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.3.1
+                                  Changes
+
+Configure detection improvements for tcl/tk(Brook Milligan, Alvin)
+Manual page improvements(Bruce)
+BETWEEN and LIKE fix(Thomas)
+fix for psql \connect used by pg_dump(Oliver Elphick)
+New odbc driver
+pgaccess, version 0.86
+qsort removed, now uses libc version, cleanups(Jeroen)
+fix for buffer over-runs detected(Maurice Gittens)
+fix for buffer overrun in libpgtcl(Randy Kunkee)
+fix for UNION with DISTINCT or ORDER BY(Bruce)
+gettimeofday configure check(Doug Winterburn)
+Fix "indexes not used" bug(Vadim)
+docs additions(Thomas)
+Fix for backend memory leak(Bruce)
+libreadline cleanup(Erwan MAS)
+Remove DISTDIR(Bruce)
+Makefile dependency cleanup(Jeroen van Vianen)
+ASSERT fixes(Bruce)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 6.3.1
 
      Release date: 1998-03-23
 
    Summary:
 
      * Additional support for multibyte character sets.
-
      * Repair byte ordering for mixed-endian clients and servers.
-
      * Minor updates to allowed SQL syntax.
-
      * Improvements to the configuration autodetection for installation.
 
-   A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A make distclean,
-   make, and make install is all that is required. This last step should be
-   performed while the postmaster is not running. You should re-link any
-   custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
+   A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A make
+   distclean, make, and make install is all that is required. This last
+   step should be performed while the postmaster is not running. You
+   should re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
 
    For upgrades from pre-6.3 installations, refer to the installation and
    migration instructions for version 6.3.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
- pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
- large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh (alvin)
- LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
- fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
- ultrix4 cleanup
- upgrade to pg_access 0.83
- updated CLUSTER manual page
- multibyte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
- configure --with-pgport fix
- pg_ident fix
- big-endian fix for backend communications(Kataoka)
- SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Jan)
- several jdbc fixes(Peter)
- libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
- Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
- Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
- Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
- Sunos4 cleanup
- Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
- CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
- Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
- Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
- Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
- Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
- Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
- Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 6.3
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1998-03-01
+ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
+pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
+large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh (alvin)
+LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
+fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
+ultrix4 cleanup
+upgrade to pg_access 0.83
+updated CLUSTER manual page
+multibyte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
+configure --with-pgport fix
+pg_ident fix
+big-endian fix for backend communications(Kataoka)
+SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Jan)
+several jdbc fixes(Peter)
+libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
+Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
+Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
+Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
+Sunos4 cleanup
+Allow optional TABLE key word in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
+CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
+Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
+Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
+Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
+Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
+Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
+Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
 
-   There are *many* new features and improvements in this release. Here is a
-   brief, incomplete summary:
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     * Many new SQL features, including full SQL92 subselect capability
-       (everything is here but target-list subselects).
+                                Release 6.3
 
-     * Support for client-side environment variables to specify time zone and
-       date style.
+     Release date: 1998-03-01
 
-     * Socket interface for client/server connection. This is the default now
-       so you may need to start postmaster with the "-i" flag.
+   There are *many* new features and improvements in this release. Here
+   is a brief, incomplete summary:
 
-     * Better password authorization mechanisms. Default table permissions
+     * Many new SQL features, including full SQL92 subselect capability
+       (everything is here but target-list subselects).
+     * Support for client-side environment variables to specify time zone
+       and date style.
+     * Socket interface for client/server connection. This is the default
+       now so you may need to start postmaster with the "-i" flag.
+     * Better password authorization mechanisms. Default table privileges
        have changed.
-
-     * Old-style time travel has been removed. Performance has been improved.
+     * Old-style time travel has been removed. Performance has been
+       improved.
 
      Note: Bruce Momjian wrote the following notes to introduce the new
      release.
 
-   There are some general 6.3 issues that I want to mention. These are only
-   the big items that can not be described in one sentence. A review of the
-   detailed changes list is still needed.
+   There are some general 6.3 issues that I want to mention. These are
+   only the big items that can not be described in one sentence. A review
+   of the detailed changes list is still needed.
 
    First, we now have subselects. Now that we have them, I would like to
    mention that without subselects, SQL is a very limited language.
-   Subselects are a major feature, and you should review your code for places
-   where subselects provide a better solution for your queries. I think you
-   will find that there are more uses for subselects than you may think.
-   Vadim has put us on the big SQL map with subselects, and fully functional
-   ones too. The only thing you can't do with subselects is to use them in
-   the target list.
+   Subselects are a major feature, and you should review your code for
+   places where subselects provide a better solution for your queries. I
+   think you will find that there are more uses for subselects than you
+   may think. Vadim has put us on the big SQL map with subselects, and
+   fully functional ones too. The only thing you can't do with subselects
+   is to use them in the target list.
 
    Second, 6.3 uses Unix domain sockets rather than TCP/IP by default. To
-   enable connections from other machines, you have to use the new postmaster
-   -i option, and of course edit "pg_hba.conf". Also, for this reason, the
-   format of "pg_hba.conf" has changed.
-
-   Third, char() fields will now allow faster access than varchar() or text.
-   Specifically, the text and varchar() have a penalty for access to any
-   columns after the first column of this type. char() used to also have this
-   access penalty, but it no longer does. This may suggest that you redesign
-   some of your tables, especially if you have short character columns that
-   you have defined as varchar() or text. This and other changes make 6.3
-   even faster than earlier releases.
-
-   We now have passwords definable independent of any Unix file. There are
-   new SQL USER commands. See the Administrator's Guide for more information.
-   There is a new table, pg_shadow, which is used to store user information
-   and user passwords, and it by default only SELECT-able by the postgres
-   super-user. pg_user is now a view of pg_shadow, and is SELECT-able by
-   PUBLIC. You should keep using pg_user in your application without changes.
-
-   User-created tables now no longer have SELECT permission to PUBLIC by
-   default. This was done because the ANSI standard requires it. You can of
-   course GRANT any permissions you want after the table is created. System
-   tables continue to be SELECT-able by PUBLIC.
-
-   We also have real deadlock detection code. No more sixty-second timeouts.
-   And the new locking code implements a FIFO better, so there should be less
-   resource starvation during heavy use.
-
-   Many complaints have been made about inadequate documentation in previous
-   releases. Thomas has put much effort into many new manuals for this
-   release. Check out the doc/ directory.
-
-   For performance reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented using
-   triggers (see "pgsql/contrib/spi/README"). Please check out the new \d
-   command for types, operators, etc. Also, views have their own permissions
-   now, not based on the underlying tables, so permissions on them have to be
-   set separately. Check "/pgsql/interfaces" for some new ways to talk to
-   PostgreSQL.
-
-   This is the first release that really required an explanation for existing
-   users. In many ways, this was necessary because the new release removes
-   many limitations, and the work-arounds people were using are no longer
-   needed.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration to version 6.3
-
-   A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing
-   to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim)
- Fix for tcl library crash(Jan)
- Fix for array handling, from Gerhard Hintermayer
- Fix acl error, and remove duplicate pqtrace(Bruce)
- Fix psql \e for empty file(Bruce)
- Fix for textcat on varchar() fields(Bruce)
- Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres)
- Fix vacuum analyze syntax problem(Bruce)
- Fix for international identifiers(Tatsuo)
- Fix aggregates on inherited tables(Bruce)
- Fix substr() for out-of-bounds data
- Fix for select 1=1 or 2=2, select 1=1 and 2=2, and select sum(2+2)(Bruce)
- Fix notty output to show status result.  -q option still turns it off(Bruce)
- Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce)
- Fix cluster(Bruce)
- Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce)
- Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting
-         lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share
-         locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not
-         getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce)
- Fix crashes in psql when executing queries from external files(James)
- Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having
-         NULL values(Jeroen)
- Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas)
- Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas)
- Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas)
- Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce)
- Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas)
- Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0'
-         and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas)
- Major large objects fix
- Fix for GROUP BY showing duplicates(Vadim)
- Fix for index scans in MergeJion(Vadim)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY keywords (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas)
- New User Manual(Thomas, others)
- Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions
- Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce)
- Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
-         CURRENT_USER(Thomas)
- Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas)
- Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indexes(Thomas)
- Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas)
- Allow NOT NULL UNIQUE constraint clause (each allowed separately before)(Thomas)
- Allow PostgreSQL-style casting ("::") of non-constants(Thomas)
- Add support for SQL3 TRUE and FALSE boolean constants(Thomas)
- Support SQL92 syntax for IS TRUE/IS FALSE/IS NOT TRUE/IS NOT FALSE(Thomas)
- Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas)
- Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas)
- Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas)
- Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings
-         (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
- Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
- Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
- Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
-         this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim)
- New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
- New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
- Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce)
- Add Java support for passwords, European dates(Peter)
- Use indexes for LIKE and ~, !~ operations(Bruce)
- Add hash functions for datetime and timespan(Thomas)
- Time Travel removed(Vadim, Bruce)
- Add paging for \d and \z, and fix \i(Bruce)
- Add Unix domain socket support to backend and to frontend library(Goran)
- Implement CREATE DATABASE/WITH LOCATION and initlocation utility(Thomas)
- Allow more SQL92 and/or PostgreSQL reserved words as column identifiers(Thomas)
- Augment support for SQL92 SET TIME ZONE...(Thomas)
- SET/SHOW/RESET TIME ZONE uses TZ backend environment variable(Thomas)
- Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas)
- Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas)
- Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Thomas)
- Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO
-         frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas)
- Regression tests time zone automatically set with "setenv PGTZ PST8PDT"(Thomas)
- Add pg_description table for info on tables, columns, operators, types, and
-         aggregates(Bruce)
- Increase 16 char limit on system table/index names to 32 characters(Bruce)
- Rename system indexes(Bruce)
- Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas)
- Define an "ISO-style" timespan output format with "hh:mm:ss" fields(Thomas)
- Allow fractional values for delta times (e.g. '2.5 days')(Thomas)
- Validate numeric input more carefully for delta times(Thomas)
- Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas)
- Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas)
- Remove archive stuff(Bruce)
- Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from
-         the system password file(Todd)
- Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE permissions(Matt)
- Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas)
- Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce)
- Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas)
- Allow NOT, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL in constraints(Thomas)
- Implement UNIONs for SELECT(Bruce)
- Add UNION, GROUP, DISTINCT to INSERT(Bruce)
- varchar() stores only necessary bytes on disk(Bruce)
- Fix for BLOBs(Peter)
- Mega-Patch for JDBC...see README_6.3 for list of changes(Peter)
- Remove unused "option" from PQconnectdb()
- New LOCK command and lock manual page describing deadlocks(Bruce)
- Add new psql \da, \dd, \df, \do, \dS, and \dT commands(Bruce)
- Enhance psql \z to show sequences(Bruce)
- Show NOT NULL and DEFAULT in psql \d table(Bruce)
- New psql .psqlrc file start-up(Andrew)
- Modify sample start-up script in contrib/linux to show syslog(Thomas)
- New types for IP and MAC addresses in contrib/ip_and_mac(TomH)
- Unix system time conversions with date/time types in contrib/unixdate(Thomas)
- Update of contrib stuff(Massimo)
- Add Unix socket support to DBD::Pg(Goran)
- New python interface (PyGreSQL 2.0)(D'Arcy)
- New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil)
- Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil)
- CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT
- ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor
- Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin)
- Remove pg_time table(Vadim)
- Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar)
- Add report of offending line when COPY command fails
- Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables.
-         For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan)
- Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC.  You must
-         explicitly grant such permissions.
- Clean up tutorial examples(Darren)
-
- Source Tree Changes
- -------------------
- Add new html development tools, and flow chart in /tools/backend
- Fix for SCO compiles
- Stratus computer port Robert Gillies
- Added support for shlib for BSD44_derived & i386_solaris
- Make configure more automated(Brook)
- Add script to check regression test results
- Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce)
- Rename heap_create to heap_create_and_catalog, rename heap_creatr
-         to heap_create()(Bruce)
- Sparc/Linux patch for locking(TomS)
- Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc)
- Add optimizer README file(Bruce)
- Remove some recursion in optimizer and clean up some code there(Bruce)
- Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry)
- Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo)
- AIX patch(Darren)
- Change IS TRUE, IS FALSE, ... to expressions using "=" rather than
-         function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas)
- Various fixes NetBSD/Sparc related(TomH)
- Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan)
- Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce)
- FAQ for FreeBSD(Marc)
- Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc)
- A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan)
- New pg_attribute.atttypmod for type-specific info like varchar length(Bruce)
- Unixware patches(Billy)
- New i386 'lock' for spin lock asm(Billy)
- Support for multiplexed backends is removed
- Start an OpenBSD port
- Start an AUX port
- Start a Cygnus port
- Add string functions to regression suite(Thomas)
- Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas)
- Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.2.1
+   enable connections from other machines, you have to use the new
+   postmaster -i option, and of course edit "pg_hba.conf". Also, for this
+   reason, the format of "pg_hba.conf" has changed.
+
+   Third, char() fields will now allow faster access than varchar() or
+   text. Specifically, the text and varchar() have a penalty for access
+   to any columns after the first column of this type. char() used to
+   also have this access penalty, but it no longer does. This may suggest
+   that you redesign some of your tables, especially if you have short
+   character columns that you have defined as varchar() or text. This and
+   other changes make 6.3 even faster than earlier releases.
+
+   We now have passwords definable independent of any Unix file. There
+   are new SQL USER commands. See the Administrator's Guide for more
+   information. There is a new table, pg_shadow, which is used to store
+   user information and user passwords, and it by default only
+   SELECT-able by the postgres super-user. pg_user is now a view of
+   pg_shadow, and is SELECT-able by PUBLIC. You should keep using pg_user
+   in your application without changes.
+
+   User-created tables now no longer have SELECT privilege to PUBLIC by
+   default. This was done because the ANSI standard requires it. You can
+   of course GRANT any privileges you want after the table is created.
+   System tables continue to be SELECT-able by PUBLIC.
+
+   We also have real deadlock detection code. No more sixty-second
+   timeouts. And the new locking code implements a FIFO better, so there
+   should be less resource starvation during heavy use.
+
+   Many complaints have been made about inadequate documentation in
+   previous releases. Thomas has put much effort into many new manuals
+   for this release. Check out the doc/ directory.
+
+   For performance reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented
+   using triggers (see "pgsql/contrib/spi/README"). Please check out the
+   new \d command for types, operators, etc. Also, views have their own
+   privileges now, not based on the underlying tables, so privileges on
+   them have to be set separately. Check "/pgsql/interfaces" for some new
+   ways to talk to PostgreSQL.
+
+   This is the first release that really required an explanation for
+   existing users. In many ways, this was necessary because the new
+   release removes many limitations, and the work-arounds people were
+   using are no longer needed.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                          Migration to version 6.3
+
+   A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those
+   wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim)
+Fix for tcl library crash(Jan)
+Fix for array handling, from Gerhard Hintermayer
+Fix acl error, and remove duplicate pqtrace(Bruce)
+Fix psql \e for empty file(Bruce)
+Fix for textcat on varchar() fields(Bruce)
+Fix for DBT Sendproc (Zeugswetter Andres)
+Fix vacuum analyze syntax problem(Bruce)
+Fix for international identifiers(Tatsuo)
+Fix aggregates on inherited tables(Bruce)
+Fix substr() for out-of-bounds data
+Fix for select 1=1 or 2=2, select 1=1 and 2=2, and select sum(2+2)(Bruce)
+Fix notty output to show status result.  -q option still turns it off(Bruce)
+Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce)
+Fix cluster(Bruce)
+Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce)
+Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting
+        lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share
+        locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not
+        getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce)
+Fix crashes in psql when executing queries from external files(James)
+Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having
+        NULL values(Jeroen)
+Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas)
+Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas)
+Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas)
+Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce)
+Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas)
+Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0'
+        and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas)
+Major large objects fix
+Fix for GROUP BY showing duplicates(Vadim)
+Fix for index scans in MergeJion(Vadim)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY key words (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas)
+New User Manual(Thomas, others)
+Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions
+Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce)
+Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+        CURRENT_USER(Thomas)
+Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas)
+Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indexes(Thomas)
+Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas)
+Allow NOT NULL UNIQUE constraint clause (each allowed separately before)(Thomas
+)
+Allow PostgreSQL-style casting ("::") of non-constants(Thomas)
+Add support for SQL3 TRUE and FALSE boolean constants(Thomas)
+Support SQL92 syntax for IS TRUE/IS FALSE/IS NOT TRUE/IS NOT FALSE(Thomas)
+Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas)
+Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas)
+Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas
+)
+Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings
+        (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
+Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
+Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
+Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
+        this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim)
+New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
+New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
+Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce)
+Add Java support for passwords, European dates(Peter)
+Use indexes for LIKE and ~, !~ operations(Bruce)
+Add hash functions for datetime and timespan(Thomas)
+Time Travel removed(Vadim, Bruce)
+Add paging for \d and \z, and fix \i(Bruce)
+Add Unix domain socket support to backend and to frontend library(Goran)
+Implement CREATE DATABASE/WITH LOCATION and initlocation utility(Thomas)
+Allow more SQL92 and/or PostgreSQL reserved words as column identifiers(Thomas)
+Augment support for SQL92 SET TIME ZONE...(Thomas)
+SET/SHOW/RESET TIME ZONE uses TZ backend environment variable(Thomas)
+Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas)
+Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas)
+Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Tho
+mas)
+Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO
+        frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas)
+Regression tests time zone automatically set with "setenv PGTZ PST8PDT"(Thomas)
+Add pg_description table for info on tables, columns, operators, types, and
+        aggregates(Bruce)
+Increase 16 char limit on system table/index names to 32 characters(Bruce)
+Rename system indexes(Bruce)
+Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas)
+Define an "ISO-style" timespan output format with "hh:mm:ss" fields(Thomas)
+Allow fractional values for delta times (e.g. '2.5 days')(Thomas)
+Validate numeric input more carefully for delta times(Thomas)
+Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas)
+Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas)
+Remove archive stuff(Bruce)
+Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from
+        the system password file(Todd)
+Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE privileges(Matt)
+Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas)
+Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce)
+Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas)
+Allow NOT, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL in constraints(Thomas)
+Implement UNIONs for SELECT(Bruce)
+Add UNION, GROUP, DISTINCT to INSERT(Bruce)
+varchar() stores only necessary bytes on disk(Bruce)
+Fix for BLOBs(Peter)
+Mega-Patch for JDBC...see README_6.3 for list of changes(Peter)
+Remove unused "option" from PQconnectdb()
+New LOCK command and lock manual page describing deadlocks(Bruce)
+Add new psql \da, \dd, \df, \do, \dS, and \dT commands(Bruce)
+Enhance psql \z to show sequences(Bruce)
+Show NOT NULL and DEFAULT in psql \d table(Bruce)
+New psql .psqlrc file start-up(Andrew)
+Modify sample start-up script in contrib/linux to show syslog(Thomas)
+New types for IP and MAC addresses in contrib/ip_and_mac(TomH)
+Unix system time conversions with date/time types in contrib/unixdate(Thomas)
+Update of contrib stuff(Massimo)
+Add Unix socket support to DBD::Pg(Goran)
+New python interface (PyGreSQL 2.0)(D'Arcy)
+New frontend/backend protocol has a version number, network byte order(Phil)
+Security features in pg_hba.conf enhanced and documented, many cleanups(Phil)
+CHAR() now faster access than VARCHAR() or TEXT
+ecpg embedded SQL preprocessor
+Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin)
+Remove pg_time table(Vadim)
+Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar)
+Add report of offending line when COPY command fails
+Allow VIEW privileges to be set separately from the underlying tables.
+        For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan)
+Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC.  You must
+        explicitly grant such privileges.
+Clean up tutorial examples(Darren)
+
+Source Tree Changes
+-------------------
+Add new html development tools, and flow chart in /tools/backend
+Fix for SCO compiles
+Stratus computer port Robert Gillies
+Added support for shlib for BSD44_derived & i386_solaris
+Make configure more automated(Brook)
+Add script to check regression test results
+Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce)
+Rename heap_create to heap_create_and_catalog, rename heap_creatr
+        to heap_create()(Bruce)
+Sparc/Linux patch for locking(TomS)
+Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc)
+Add optimizer README file(Bruce)
+Remove some recursion in optimizer and clean up some code there(Bruce)
+Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry)
+Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo)
+AIX patch(Darren)
+Change IS TRUE, IS FALSE, ... to expressions using "=" rather than
+        function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas)
+Various fixes NetBSD/Sparc related(TomH)
+Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan)
+Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce)
+FAQ for FreeBSD(Marc)
+Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc)
+A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan)
+New pg_attribute.atttypmod for type-specific info like varchar length(Bruce)
+UnixWare patches(Billy)
+New i386 'lock' for spinlock asm(Billy)
+Support for multiplexed backends is removed
+Start an OpenBSD port
+Start an AUX port
+Start a Cygnus port
+Add string functions to regression suite(Thomas)
+Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas)
+Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce)
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 6.2.1
 
      Release date: 1997-10-17
 
@@ -2591,958 +2570,927 @@ Changes
    Summary:
 
      * Allow strings to span lines, per SQL92.
-
      * Include example trigger function for inserting user names on table
        updates.
 
-   This is a minor bug-fix release on 6.2. For upgrades from pre-6.2 systems,
-   a full dump/reload is required. Refer to the 6.2 release notes for
-   instructions.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   This is a minor bug-fix release on 6.2. For upgrades from pre-6.2
+   systems, a full dump/reload is required. Refer to the 6.2 release
+   notes for instructions.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1
+                Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1
 
    This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from
    version 6.2, but is required from any release prior to 6.2.
 
-   In upgrading from version 6.2, if you choose to dump/reload you will find
-   that avg(money) is now calculated correctly. All other bug fixes take
-   effect upon updating the executables.
-
-   Another way to avoid dump/reload is to use the following SQL command from
-   "psql" to update the existing system table:
+   In upgrading from version 6.2, if you choose to dump/reload you will
+   find that avg(money) is now calculated correctly. All other bug fixes
+   take effect upon updating the executables.
 
-   update pg_aggregate set aggfinalfn = 'cash_div_flt8'
-    where aggname = 'avg' and aggbasetype = 790;
+   Another way to avoid dump/reload is to use the following SQL command
+   from "psql" to update the existing system table:
+  update pg_aggregate set aggfinalfn = 'cash_div_flt8'
+   where aggname = 'avg' and aggbasetype = 790;
 
-   This will need to be done to every existing database, including template1.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   This will need to be done to every existing database, including
+   template1.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Changes
+                                  Changes
 
- Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
- Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
- Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
- Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim)
- Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim)
- Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas)
- Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim)
- Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas)
- Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim)
- Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
- Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
-     
+Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
+Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
+Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
+Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim)
+Fix for relation reference counts problem in buffer manager(Vadim)
+Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas)
+Fix for backward cursor with ORDER BY(Vadim)
+Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas)
+Fix for specifying a column twice in ORDER/GROUP BY(Vadim)
+Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
+Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                  Release 6.2
+                                Release 6.2
 
      Release date: 1997-10-02
 
-   A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from previous
-   releases of PostgreSQL.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2
+   A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from
+   previous releases of PostgreSQL.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.1 database and a restore
-   of the database in 6.2.
+                 Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2
 
-   Note that the "pg_dump" and "pg_dumpall" utility from 6.2 should be used
-   to dump the 6.1 database.
+   This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.1 database and a
+   restore of the database in 6.2.
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   Note that the "pg_dump" and "pg_dumpall" utility from 6.2 should be
+   used to dump the 6.1 database.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration from version 1.x to version 6.2
+                 Migration from version 1.x to version 6.2
 
    Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
    because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce)
- Fix compile errors on overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes
-          from Solaris(Diab Jerius)
- Fix bugs in geometric line arithmetic (bad intersection calculations)(Thomas)
- Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thomas)
- Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim)
- Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg)
- Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg)
- Fix very old bug which made tuples changed/inserted by a commnd
-         visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of
-         updated tuples, etc)(Vadim)
- Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick)
- SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick)
- Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface
- Fix OR (where x != 1 or x isnull didn't return tuples with x NULL) (Vadim)
- Fix time_cmp function (Vadim)
- Fix handling of functions with non-attribute first argument in
-         WHERE clauses (Vadim)
- Fix GROUP BY when order of entries is different from order
-         in target list (Vadim)
- Fix pg_dump for aggregates without sfunc1 (Vadim)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce)
- Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim)
- Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter)
- pg_password utility
- Return number of tuples inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim)
- Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim)
- SPI (Server Programming Interface) allows execution of queries inside
-         C-functions (Vadim)
- NOT NULL implemented (SQL92)(Robson Paniago de Miranda)
- Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas)
- Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas)
- Add "//" single-line comments(Bruce)
- Remove some restrictions on characters in operator names(Thomas)
- DEFAULT and CONSTRAINT for tables implemented (SQL92)(Vadim & Thomas)
- Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Support INTERVAL unit TO unit syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Define types DOUBLE PRECISION, INTERVAL, CHARACTER,
-         and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Define type FLOAT(p) and rudimentary DECIMAL(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s) (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Add syntax and warnings for UNION, HAVING, INNER and OUTER JOIN (SQL92)(Thomas)
- Add more reserved words, mostly for SQL92 compliance(Thomas)
- Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas)
- Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas)
- Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas)
- Check explicitly for points and polygons contained within polygons
-         using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas)
- Add routine to convert circle-box(Thomas)
- Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas)
- Replace distance operator "<===>" with "<->"(Thomas)
- Replace "above" operator "!^" with ">^" and "below" operator "!|" with "<^"(Thomas)
- Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Thomas)
- Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas)
- Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim)
- Allow functions and operators on internally-identical types to succeed(Bruce)
- Speed up backend start-up after profiling analysis(Bruce)
- Inline frequently called functions for performance(Bruce)
- Reduce open() calls(Bruce)
- psql:  Add PAGER for \h and \?,\C fix
- Fix for psql pager when no tty(Bruce)
- New entab utility(Bruce)
- General trigger functions for referential integrity (Vadim)
- General trigger functions for time travel (Vadim)
- General trigger functions for AUTOINCREMENT/IDENTITY feature (Vadim)
- MOVE implementation (Vadim)
-
- Source Tree Changes
- -------------------
- HPUX 10 patches (Vladimir Turin)
- Added SCO support, (Daniel Harris)
- mkLinux patches (Tatsuo Ishii)
- Change geometric box terminology from "length" to "width"(Thomas)
- Deprecate temporary unstored slope fields in geometric code(Thomas)
- Remove restart instructions from INSTALL(Bruce)
- Look in /usr/ucb first for install(Bruce)
- Fix c++ copy example code(Thomas)
- Add -o to psql manual page(Bruce)
- Prevent relname unallocated string length from being copied into database(Bruce)
- Cleanup for NAMEDATALEN use(Bruce)
- Fix pg_proc names over 15 chars in output(Bruce)
- Add strNcpy() function(Bruce)
- remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary(Bruce)
- new interfaces directory(Marc)
- Replace fopen() calls with calls to fd.c functions(Bruce)
- Make functions static where possible(Bruce)
- enclose unused functions in #ifdef NOT_USED(Bruce)
- Remove call to difftime() in timestamp support to fix SunOS(Bruce & Thomas)
- Changes for Digital Unix
- Portability fix for pg_dumpall(Bruce)
- Rename pg_attribute.attnvals to attdispersion(Bruce)
- "intro/unix" manual page now "pgintro"(Bruce)
- "built-in" manual page now "pgbuiltin"(Bruce)
- "drop" manual page now "drop_table"(Bruce)
- Add "create_trigger", "drop_trigger" manual pages(Thomas)
- Add constraints regression test(Vadim & Thomas)
- Add comments syntax regression test(Thomas)
- Add PGINDENT and support program(Bruce)
- Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files(Bruce)
- Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce)
- SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy)
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                 Release 6.1.1
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1997-07-22
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce)
+Fix compile errors on overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes
+         from Solaris(Diab Jerius)
+Fix bugs in geometric line arithmetic (bad intersection calculations)(Thomas)
+Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thoma
+s)
+Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim)
+Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg)
+Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg)
+Fix very old bug which made rows changed/inserted by a command
+        visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of
+        updated rows, etc.)(Vadim)
+Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick)
+SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick)
+Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface
+Fix OR (where x != 1 or x isnull didn't return rows with x NULL) (Vadim)
+Fix time_cmp function (Vadim)
+Fix handling of functions with non-attribute first argument in
+        WHERE clauses (Vadim)
+Fix GROUP BY when order of entries is different from order
+        in target list (Vadim)
+Fix pg_dump for aggregates without sfunc1 (Vadim)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce)
+Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim)
+Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter)
+pg_password utility
+Return number of rows inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim)
+Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim)
+SPI (Server Programming Interface) allows execution of queries inside
+        C-functions (Vadim)
+NOT NULL implemented (SQL92)(Robson Paniago de Miranda)
+Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas)
+Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas)
+Add "//" single-line comments(Bruce)
+Remove some restrictions on characters in operator names(Thomas)
+DEFAULT and CONSTRAINT for tables implemented (SQL92)(Vadim & Thomas)
+Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Support INTERVAL unit TO unit syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Define types DOUBLE PRECISION, INTERVAL, CHARACTER,
+        and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Define type FLOAT(p) and rudimentary DECIMAL(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s) (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Add syntax and warnings for UNION, HAVING, INNER and OUTER JOIN (SQL92)(Thomas)
+Add more reserved words, mostly for SQL92 compliance(Thomas)
+Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas)
+Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas)
+Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas)
+Check explicitly for points and polygons contained within polygons
+        using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas)
+Add routine to convert circle-box(Thomas)
+Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas)
+Replace distance operator "<===>" with "<->"(Thomas)
+Replace "above" operator "!^" with ">^" and "below" operator "!|" with "<^"(Tho
+mas)
+Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Tho
+mas)
+Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas)
+Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim)
+Allow functions and operators on internally-identical types to succeed(Bruce)
+Speed up backend start-up after profiling analysis(Bruce)
+Inline frequently called functions for performance(Bruce)
+Reduce open() calls(Bruce)
+psql:  Add PAGER for \h and \?,\C fix
+Fix for psql pager when no tty(Bruce)
+New entab utility(Bruce)
+General trigger functions for referential integrity (Vadim)
+General trigger functions for time travel (Vadim)
+General trigger functions for AUTOINCREMENT/IDENTITY feature (Vadim)
+MOVE implementation (Vadim)
+
+Source Tree Changes
+-------------------
+HP-UX 10 patches (Vladimir Turin)
+Added SCO support, (Daniel Harris)
+MkLinux patches (Tatsuo Ishii)
+Change geometric box terminology from "length" to "width"(Thomas)
+Deprecate temporary unstored slope fields in geometric code(Thomas)
+Remove restart instructions from INSTALL(Bruce)
+Look in /usr/ucb first for install(Bruce)
+Fix c++ copy example code(Thomas)
+Add -o to psql manual page(Bruce)
+Prevent relname unallocated string length from being copied into database(Bruce
+)
+Cleanup for NAMEDATALEN use(Bruce)
+Fix pg_proc names over 15 chars in output(Bruce)
+Add strNcpy() function(Bruce)
+remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary(Bruce)
+new interfaces directory(Marc)
+Replace fopen() calls with calls to fd.c functions(Bruce)
+Make functions static where possible(Bruce)
+enclose unused functions in #ifdef NOT_USED(Bruce)
+Remove call to difftime() in timestamp support to fix SunOS(Bruce & Thomas)
+Changes for Digital Unix
+Portability fix for pg_dumpall(Bruce)
+Rename pg_attribute.attnvals to attdispersion(Bruce)
+"intro/unix" manual page now "pgintro"(Bruce)
+"built-in" manual page now "pgbuiltin"(Bruce)
+"drop" manual page now "drop_table"(Bruce)
+Add "create_trigger", "drop_trigger" manual pages(Thomas)
+Add constraints regression test(Vadim & Thomas)
+Add comments syntax regression test(Thomas)
+Add PGINDENT and support program(Bruce)
+Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files(Bruce)
+Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce)
+SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy)
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               Release 6.1.1
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     Release date: 1997-07-22
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1
+                Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1
 
    This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from
-   version 6.1, but is required from any release prior to 6.1. Refer to the
-   release notes for 6.1 for more details.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- fix for SET with options (Thomas)
- allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
- new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases
- fix for initdb --debug option(Yoshihiko Ichikawa))
- lextest cleanup(Bruce)
- hash fixes(Vadim)
- fix date/time month boundary arithmetic(Thomas)
- fix timezone daylight handling for some ports(Thomas, Bruce, Tatsuo)
- timestamp overhauled to use standard functions(Thomas)
- other code cleanup in date/time routines(Thomas)
- psql's \d now case-insensitive(Bruce)
- psql's backslash commands can now have trailing semicolon(Bruce)
- fix memory leak in psql when using \g(Bruce)
- major fix for endian handling of communication to server(Thomas, Tatsuo)
- Fix for Solaris assembler and include files(Yoshihiko Ichikawa)
- allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
- pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)
-     
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 6.1
+   version 6.1, but is required from any release prior to 6.1. Refer to
+   the release notes for 6.1 for more details.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+fix for SET with options (Thomas)
+allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
+new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases
+fix for initdb --debug option(Yoshihiko Ichikawa))
+lextest cleanup(Bruce)
+hash fixes(Vadim)
+fix date/time month boundary arithmetic(Thomas)
+fix timezone daylight handling for some ports(Thomas, Bruce, Tatsuo)
+timestamp overhauled to use standard functions(Thomas)
+other code cleanup in date/time routines(Thomas)
+psql's \d now case-insensitive(Bruce)
+psql's backslash commands can now have trailing semicolon(Bruce)
+fix memory leak in psql when using \g(Bruce)
+major fix for endian handling of communication to server(Thomas, Tatsuo)
+Fix for Solaris assembler and include files(Yoshihiko Ichikawa)
+allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
+pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                Release 6.1
 
      Release date: 1997-06-08
 
-   The regression tests have been adapted and extensively modified for the
-   6.1 release of PostgreSQL.
-
-   Three new data types (datetime, timespan, and circle) have been added to
-   the native set of PostgreSQL types. Points, boxes, paths, and polygons
-   have had their output formats made consistent across the data types. The
-   polygon output in misc.out has only been spot-checked for correctness
-   relative to the original regression output.
-
-   PostgreSQL 6.1 introduces a new, alternate optimizer which uses genetic
-   algorithms. These algorithms introduce a random behavior in the ordering
-   of query results when the query contains multiple qualifiers or multiple
-   tables (giving the optimizer a choice on order of evaluation). Several
-   regression tests have been modified to explicitly order the results, and
-   hence are insensitive to optimizer choices. A few regression tests are for
-   data types which are inherently unordered (e.g. points and time intervals)
-   and tests involving those types are explicitly bracketed with "set geqo to
+   The regression tests have been adapted and extensively modified for
+   the 6.1 release of PostgreSQL.
+
+   Three new data types (datetime, timespan, and circle) have been added
+   to the native set of PostgreSQL types. Points, boxes, paths, and
+   polygons have had their output formats made consistent across the data
+   types. The polygon output in misc.out has only been spot-checked for
+   correctness relative to the original regression output.
+
+   PostgreSQL 6.1 introduces a new, alternate optimizer which uses
+   genetic algorithms. These algorithms introduce a random behavior in
+   the ordering of query results when the query contains multiple
+   qualifiers or multiple tables (giving the optimizer a choice on order
+   of evaluation). Several regression tests have been modified to
+   explicitly order the results, and hence are insensitive to optimizer
+   choices. A few regression tests are for data types which are
+   inherently unordered (e.g. points and time intervals) and tests
+   involving those types are explicitly bracketed with "set geqo to
    'off'" and "reset geqo".
 
    The interpretation of array specifiers (the curly braces around atomic
    values) appears to have changed sometime after the original regression
-   tests were generated. The current "./expected/*.out" files reflect this
-   new interpretation, which may not be correct!
+   tests were generated. The current "./expected/*.out" files reflect
+   this new interpretation, which may not be correct!
 
-   The float8 regression test fails on at least some platforms. This is due
-   to differences in implementations of pow() and exp() and the signaling
-   mechanisms used for overflow and underflow conditions.
+   The float8 regression test fails on at least some platforms. This is
+   due to differences in implementations of pow() and exp() and the
+   signaling mechanisms used for overflow and underflow conditions.
 
-   The "random" results in the random test should cause the "random" test to
-   be "failed", since the regression tests are evaluated using a simple diff.
-   However, "random" does not seem to produce random results on my test
-   machine (Linux/gcc/i686).
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   The "random" results in the random test should cause the "random" test
+   to be "failed", since the regression tests are evaluated using a
+   simple diff. However, "random" does not seem to produce random results
+   on my test machine (Linux/gcc/i686).
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration to version 6.1
+                          Migration to version 6.1
 
-   This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.0 database and a restore
-   of the database in 6.1.
+   This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.0 database and a
+   restore of the database in 6.1.
 
    Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
    because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- packet length checking in library routines
- lock manager priority patch
- check for under/over flow of float8(Bruce)
- multi-table join fix(Vadim)
- SIGPIPE crash fix(Darren)
- large object fixes(Sven)
- allow btree indexes to handle NULLs(Vadim)
- timezone fixes(D'Arcy)
- select SUM(x) can return NULL on no rows(Thomas)
- internal optimizer, executor bug fixes(Vadim)
- fix problem where inner loop in < or <= has no rows(Vadim)
- prevent re-commuting join index clauses(Vadim)
- fix join clauses for multiple tables(Vadim)
- fix hash, hashjoin for arrays(Vadim)
- fix btree for abstime type(Vadim)
- large object fixes(Raymond)
- fix buffer leak in hash indexes (Vadim)
- fix rtree for use in inner scan (Vadim)
- fix gist for use in inner scan, cleanups (Vadim, Andrea)
- avoid unnecessary local buffers allocation (Vadim, Massimo)
- fix local buffers leak in transaction aborts (Vadim)
- fix file manager memmory leaks, cleanups (Vadim, Massimo)
- fix storage manager memmory leaks (Vadim)
- fix btree duplicates handling (Vadim)
- fix deleted tuples re-incarnation caused by vacuum (Vadim)
- fix SELECT varchar()/char() INTO TABLE made zero-length fields(Bruce)
- many psql, pg_dump, and libpq memory leaks fixed using Purify (Igor)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- attribute optimization statistics(Bruce)
- much faster new btree bulk load code(Paul)
- BTREE UNIQUE added to bulk load code(Vadim)
- new lock debug code(Massimo)
- massive changes to libpg++(Leo)
- new GEQO optimizer speeds table multi-table optimization(Martin)
- new WARN message for non-unique insert into unique key(Marc)
- update x=-3, no spaces, now valid(Bruce)
- remove case-sensitive identifier handling(Bruce,Thomas,Dan)
- debug backend now pretty-prints tree(Darren)
- new Oracle character functions(Edmund)
- new plaintext password functions(Dan)
- no such class or insufficient privilege changed to distinct messages(Dan)
- new ANSI timestamp function(Dan)
- new ANSI Time and Date types (Thomas)
- move large chunks of data in backend(Martin)
- multi-column btree indexes(Vadim)
- new SET var TO value command(Martin)
- update transaction status on reads(Dan)
- new locale settings for character types(Oleg)
- new SEQUENCE serial number generator(Vadim)
- GROUP BY function now possible(Vadim)
- re-organize regression test(Thomas,Marc)
- new optimizer operation weights(Vadim)
- new psql \z grant/permit option(Marc)
- new MONEY data type(D'Arcy,Thomas)
- tcp socket communication speed improved(Vadim)
- new VACUUM option for attribute statistics, and for certain columns (Vadim)
- many geometric type improvements(Thomas,Keith)
- additional regression tests(Thomas)
- new datestyle variable(Thomas,Vadim,Martin)
- more comparison operators for sorting types(Thomas)
- new conversion functions(Thomas)
- new more compact btree format(Vadim)
- allow pg_dumpall to preserve database ownership(Bruce)
- new SET GEQO=# and R_PLANS variable(Vadim)
- old (!GEQO) optimizer can use right-sided plans (Vadim)
- typechecking improvement in SQL parser(Bruce)
- new SET, SHOW, RESET commands(Thomas,Vadim)
- new \connect database USER option
- new destroydb -i option (Igor)
- new \dt and \di psql commands (Darren)
- SELECT "\n" now escapes newline (A. Duursma)
- new geometry conversion functions from old format (Thomas)
-
- Source tree changes
- -------------------
- new configuration script(Marc)
- readline configuration option added(Marc)
- OS-specific configuration options removed(Marc)
- new OS-specific template files(Marc)
- no more need to edit Makefile.global(Marc)
- re-arrange include files(Marc)
- nextstep patches (Gregor Hoffleit)
- removed WIN32-specific code(Bruce)
- removed postmaster -e option, now only postgres -e option (Bruce)
- merge duplicate library code in front/backends(Martin)
- now works with eBones, international Kerberos(Jun)
- more shared library support
- c++ include file cleanup(Bruce)
- warn about buggy flex(Bruce)
- DG-UX, Ultrix, Irix, AIX portability fixes
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 6.0
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1997-01-29
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+packet length checking in library routines
+lock manager priority patch
+check for under/over flow of float8(Bruce)
+multitable join fix(Vadim)
+SIGPIPE crash fix(Darren)
+large object fixes(Sven)
+allow btree indexes to handle NULLs(Vadim)
+timezone fixes(D'Arcy)
+select SUM(x) can return NULL on no rows(Thomas)
+internal optimizer, executor bug fixes(Vadim)
+fix problem where inner loop in < or <= has no rows(Vadim)
+prevent re-commuting join index clauses(Vadim)
+fix join clauses for multiple tables(Vadim)
+fix hash, hashjoin for arrays(Vadim)
+fix btree for abstime type(Vadim)
+large object fixes(Raymond)
+fix buffer leak in hash indexes (Vadim)
+fix rtree for use in inner scan (Vadim)
+fix gist for use in inner scan, cleanups (Vadim, Andrea)
+avoid unnecessary local buffers allocation (Vadim, Massimo)
+fix local buffers leak in transaction aborts (Vadim)
+fix file manager memmory leaks, cleanups (Vadim, Massimo)
+fix storage manager memmory leaks (Vadim)
+fix btree duplicates handling (Vadim)
+fix deleted rows reincarnation caused by vacuum (Vadim)
+fix SELECT varchar()/char() INTO TABLE made zero-length fields(Bruce)
+many psql, pg_dump, and libpq memory leaks fixed using Purify (Igor)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+attribute optimization statistics(Bruce)
+much faster new btree bulk load code(Paul)
+BTREE UNIQUE added to bulk load code(Vadim)
+new lock debug code(Massimo)
+massive changes to libpg++(Leo)
+new GEQO optimizer speeds table multitable optimization(Martin)
+new WARN message for non-unique insert into unique key(Marc)
+update x=-3, no spaces, now valid(Bruce)
+remove case-sensitive identifier handling(Bruce,Thomas,Dan)
+debug backend now pretty-prints tree(Darren)
+new Oracle character functions(Edmund)
+new plaintext password functions(Dan)
+no such class or insufficient privilege changed to distinct messages(Dan)
+new ANSI timestamp function(Dan)
+new ANSI Time and Date types (Thomas)
+move large chunks of data in backend(Martin)
+multicolumn btree indexes(Vadim)
+new SET var TO value command(Martin)
+update transaction status on reads(Dan)
+new locale settings for character types(Oleg)
+new SEQUENCE serial number generator(Vadim)
+GROUP BY function now possible(Vadim)
+re-organize regression test(Thomas,Marc)
+new optimizer operation weights(Vadim)
+new psql \z grant/permit option(Marc)
+new MONEY data type(D'Arcy,Thomas)
+tcp socket communication speed improved(Vadim)
+new VACUUM option for attribute statistics, and for certain columns (Vadim)
+many geometric type improvements(Thomas,Keith)
+additional regression tests(Thomas)
+new datestyle variable(Thomas,Vadim,Martin)
+more comparison operators for sorting types(Thomas)
+new conversion functions(Thomas)
+new more compact btree format(Vadim)
+allow pg_dumpall to preserve database ownership(Bruce)
+new SET GEQO=# and R_PLANS variable(Vadim)
+old (!GEQO) optimizer can use right-sided plans (Vadim)
+typechecking improvement in SQL parser(Bruce)
+new SET, SHOW, RESET commands(Thomas,Vadim)
+new \connect database USER option
+new destroydb -i option (Igor)
+new \dt and \di psql commands (Darren)
+SELECT "\n" now escapes newline (A. Duursma)
+new geometry conversion functions from old format (Thomas)
+
+Source tree changes
+-------------------
+new configuration script(Marc)
+readline configuration option added(Marc)
+OS-specific configuration options removed(Marc)
+new OS-specific template files(Marc)
+no more need to edit Makefile.global(Marc)
+re-arrange include files(Marc)
+nextstep patches (Gregor Hoffleit)
+removed Windows-specific code(Bruce)
+removed postmaster -e option, now only postgres -e option (Bruce)
+merge duplicate library code in front/backends(Martin)
+now works with eBones, international Kerberos(Jun)
+more shared library support
+c++ include file cleanup(Bruce)
+warn about buggy flex(Bruce)
+DG/UX, Ultrix, IRIX, AIX portability fixes
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from previous
-   releases of PostgreSQL.
+                                Release 6.0
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+     Release date: 1997-01-29
 
-Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0
+   A dump/restore is required for those wishing to migrate data from
+   previous releases of PostgreSQL.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   This migration requires a complete dump of the 1.09 database and a restore
-   of the database in 6.0.
+                 Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   This migration requires a complete dump of the 1.09 database and a
+   restore of the database in 6.0.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0
+                   Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0
 
    Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
    because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+                                  Changes
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ALTER TABLE bug - running postgress process needs to re-read table definition
+Allow vacuum to be run on one table or entire database(Bruce)
+Array fixes
+Fix array over-runs of memory writes(Kurt)
+Fix elusive btree range/non-range bug(Dan)
+Fix for hash indexes on some types like time and date
+Fix for pg_log size explosion
+Fix permissions on lo_export()(Bruce)
+Fix unitialized reads of memory(Kurt)
+Fixed ALTER TABLE ... char(3) bug(Bruce)
+Fixed a few small memory leaks
+Fixed EXPLAIN handling of options and changed full_path option name
+Fixed output of group acl privileges
+Memory leaks (hunt and destroy with tools like Purify(Kurt)
+Minor improvements to rules system
+NOTIFY fixes
+New asserts for run-checking
+Overhauled parser/analyze code to properly report errors and increase speed
+Pg_dump -d now handles NULL's properly(Bruce)
+Prevent SELECT NULL from crashing server (Bruce)
+Properly report errors when INSERT ... SELECT columns did not match
+Properly report errors when insert column names were not correct
+psql \g filename now works(Bruce)
+psql fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs
+Removed duplicate system OIDs
+SELECT * INTO TABLE . GROUP/ORDER BY gives unlink error if table exists(Bruce)
+Several fixes for queries that crashed the backend
+Starting quote in insert string errors(Bruce)
+Submitting an empty query now returns empty status, not just " " query(Bruce)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+Add EXPLAIN manual page(Bruce)
+Add UNIQUE index capability(Dan)
+Add hostname/user level access control rather than just hostname and user
+Add synonym of != for <>(Bruce)
+Allow "select oid,* from table"
+Allow BY,ORDER BY to specify columns by number, or by non-alias table.column(Br
+uce)
+Allow COPY from the frontend(Bryan)
+Allow GROUP BY to use alias column name(Bruce)
+Allow actual compression, not just reuse on the same page(Vadim)
+Allow installation-configuration option to auto-add all local users(Bryan)
+Allow libpq to distinguish between text value '' and null(Bruce)
+Allow non-postgres users with createdb privs to destroydb's
+Allow restriction on who can create C functions(Bryan)
+Allow restriction on who can do backend COPY(Bryan)
+Can shrink tables, pg_time and pg_log(Vadim & Erich)
+Change debug level 2 to print queries only, changed debug heading layout(Bruce)
+Change default decimal constant representation from float4 to float8(Bruce)
+European date format now set when postmaster is started
+Execute lowercase function names if not found with exact case
+Fixes for aggregate/GROUP processing, allow 'select sum(func(x),sum(x+y) from z
+'
+Gist now included in the distrubution(Marc)
+Idend authentication of local users(Bryan)
+Implement BETWEEN qualifier(Bruce)
+Implement IN qualifier(Bruce)
+libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce)
+libpq++ improvements
+New options to initdb(Bryan)
+Pg_dump allow dump of OIDs(Bruce)
+Pg_dump create indexes after tables are loaded for speed(Bruce)
+Pg_dumpall dumps all databases, and the user table
+Pginterface additions for NULL values(Bruce)
+Prevent postmaster from being run as root
+psql \h and \? is now readable(Bruce)
+psql allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line(Bruce)
+psql changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes(Bruce)
+psql char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output(Bruce)
+psql return code now more accurate(Bryan?)
+psql updated help syntax(Bruce)
+Re-visit and fix vacuum(Vadim)
+Reduce size of regression diffs, remove timezone name difference(Bruce)
+Remove compile-time parameters to enable binary distributions(Bryan)
+Reverse meaning of HBA masks(Bryan)
+Secure Authentication of local users(Bryan)
+Speed up vacuum(Vadim)
+Vacuum now had VERBOSE option(Bruce)
+
+Source tree changes
+-------------------
+All functions now have prototypes that are compared against the calls
+Allow asserts to be disabled easly from Makefile.global(Bruce)
+Change oid constants used in code to #define names
+Decoupled sparc and solaris defines(Kurt)
+Gcc -Wall compiles cleanly with warnings only from unfixable constructs
+Major include file reorganization/reduction(Marc)
+Make now stops on compile failure(Bryan)
+Makefile restructuring(Bryan, Marc)
+Merge bsdi_2_1 to bsdi(Bruce)
+Monitor program removed
+Name change from Postgres95 to PostgreSQL
+New config.h file(Marc, Bryan)
+PG_VERSION now set to 6.0 and used by postmaster
+Portability additions, including Ultrix, DG/UX, AIX, and Solaris
+Reduced the number of #define's, centeralized #define's
+Remove duplicate OIDS in system tables(Dan)
+Remove duplicate system catalog info or report mismatches(Dan)
+Removed many os-specific #define's
+Restructured object file generation/location(Bryan, Marc)
+Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc)
+Unused/uninialized variables corrected
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- ALTER TABLE bug - running postgress process needs to re-read table definition
- Allow vacuum to be run on one table or entire database(Bruce)
- Array fixes
- Fix array over-runs of memory writes(Kurt)
- Fix elusive btree range/non-range bug(Dan)
- Fix for hash indexes on some types like time and date
- Fix for pg_log size explosion
- Fix permissions on lo_export()(Bruce)
- Fix unitialized reads of memory(Kurt)
- Fixed ALTER TABLE ... char(3) bug(Bruce)
- Fixed a few small memory leaks
- Fixed EXPLAIN handling of options and changed full_path option name
- Fixed output of group acl permissions
- Memory leaks (hunt and destroy with tools like Purify(Kurt)
- Minor improvements to rules system
- NOTIFY fixes
- New asserts for run-checking
- Overhauled parser/analyze code to properly report errors and increase speed
- Pg_dump -d now handles NULL's properly(Bruce)
- Prevent SELECT NULL from crashing server (Bruce)
- Properly report errors when INSERT ... SELECT columns did not match
- Properly report errors when insert column names were not correct
- Psql \g filename now works(Bruce)
- Psql fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs
- Removed duplicate system oid's
- SELECT * INTO TABLE . GROUP/ORDER BY gives unlink error if table exists(Bruce)
- Several fixes for queries that crashed the backend
- Starting quote in insert string errors(Bruce)
- Submitting an empty query now returns empty status, not just " " query(Bruce)
-
- Enhancements
- ------------
- Add EXPLAIN manual page(Bruce)
- Add UNIQUE index capability(Dan)
- Add hostname/user level access control rather than just hostname and user
- Add synonym of != for <>(Bruce)
- Allow "select oid,* from table"
- Allow BY,ORDER BY to specify columns by number, or by non-alias table.column(Bruce)
- Allow COPY from the frontend(Bryan)
- Allow GROUP BY to use alias column name(Bruce)
- Allow actual compression, not just reuse on the same page(Vadim)
- Allow installation-configuration option to auto-add all local users(Bryan)
- Allow libpq to distinguish between text value '' and null(Bruce)
- Allow non-postgres users with createdb privs to destroydb's
- Allow restriction on who can create C functions(Bryan)
- Allow restriction on who can do backend COPY(Bryan)
- Can shrink tables, pg_time and pg_log(Vadim & Erich)
- Change debug level 2 to print queries only, changed debug heading layout(Bruce)
- Change default decimal constant representation from float4 to float8(Bruce)
- European date format now set when postmaster is started
- Execute lowercase function names if not found with exact case
- Fixes for aggregate/GROUP processing, allow 'select sum(func(x),sum(x+y) from z'
- Gist now included in the distrubution(Marc)
- Idend authentication of local users(Bryan)
- Implement BETWEEN qualifier(Bruce)
- Implement IN qualifier(Bruce)
- Libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce)
- Libpq++ improvements
- New options to initdb(Bryan)
- Pg_dump allow dump of oid's(Bruce)
- Pg_dump create indexes after tables are loaded for speed(Bruce)
- Pg_dumpall dumps all databases, and the user table
- Pginterface additions for NULL values(Bruce)
- Prevent postmaster from being run as root
- Psql \h and \? is now readable(Bruce)
- Psql allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line(Bruce)
- Psql changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes(Bruce)
- Psql char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output(Bruce)
- Psql return code now more accurate(Bryan?)
- Psql updated help syntax(Bruce)
- Re-visit and fix vacuum(Vadim)
- Reduce size of regression diffs, remove timezone name difference(Bruce)
- Remove compile-time parameters to enable binary distributions(Bryan)
- Reverse meaning of HBA masks(Bryan)
- Secure Authentication of local users(Bryan)
- Speed up vacuum(Vadim)
- Vacuum now had VERBOSE option(Bruce)
-
- Source tree changes
- -------------------
- All functions now have prototypes that are compared against the calls
- Allow asserts to be disabled easly from Makefile.global(Bruce)
- Change oid constants used in code to #define names
- Decoupled sparc and solaris defines(Kurt)
- Gcc -Wall compiles cleanly with warnings only from unfixable constructs
- Major include file reorganization/reduction(Marc)
- Make now stops on compile failure(Bryan)
- Makefile restructuring(Bryan, Marc)
- Merge bsdi_2_1 to bsdi(Bruce)
- Monitor program removed
- Name change from Postgres95 to PostgreSQL
- New config.h file(Marc, Bryan)
- PG_VERSION now set to 6.0 and used by postmaster
- Portability additions, including Ultrix, DG/UX, AIX, and Solaris
- Reduced the number of #define's, centeralized #define's
- Remove duplicate OIDS in system tables(Dan)
- Remove duplicate system catalog info or report mismatches(Dan)
- Removed many os-specific #define's
- Restructured object file generation/location(Bryan, Marc)
- Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc)
- Unused/uninialized variables corrected
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 1.09
+                                Release 1.09
 
      Release date: 1996-11-04
 
    Sorry, we didn't keep track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09. Some of the
    changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09
    releases.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 1.02
+                                Release 1.02
 
      Release date: 1996-08-01
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1
+               Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1
 
-   Here is a new migration file for 1.02.1. It includes the 'copy' change and
-   a script to convert old ASCII files.
+   Here is a new migration file for 1.02.1. It includes the 'copy' change
+   and a script to convert old ASCII files.
 
      Note: The following notes are for the benefit of users who want to
-     migrate databases from Postgres95 1.01 and 1.02 to Postgres95 1.02.1.
+     migrate databases from Postgres95 1.01 and 1.02 to Postgres95
+     1.02.1.
 
-     If you are starting afresh with Postgres95 1.02.1 and do not need to
-     migrate old databases, you do not need to read any further.
+     If you are starting afresh with Postgres95 1.02.1 and do not need
+     to migrate old databases, you do not need to read any further.
 
    In order to upgrade older Postgres95 version 1.01 or 1.02 databases to
    version 1.02.1, the following steps are required:
+    1. Start up a new 1.02.1 postmaster
+    2. Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.02.1 to 1.01 or
+       1.02 databases. This is done by running the new 1.02.1 server
+       against your own 1.01 or 1.02 database and applying the queries
+       attached at the end of the file. This can be done easily through
+       "psql". If your 1.01 or 1.02 database is named testdb and you have
+       cut the commands from the end of this file and saved them in
+       "addfunc.sql":
+        % psql testdb -f addfunc.sql
+       Those upgrading 1.02 databases will get a warning when executing
+       the last two statements in the file because they are already
+       present in 1.02. This is not a cause for concern.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   
-
-   
-       databases. This is done by running the new 1.02.1 server against your
-       own 1.01 or 1.02 database and applying the queries attached at the end
-       of the file. This can be done easily through "psql". If your 1.01 or
-       1.02 database is named testdb and you have cut the commands from the
-       end of this file and saved them in "addfunc.sql":
-
-         % psql testdb -f addfunc.sql
-
-       Those upgrading 1.02 databases will get a warning when executing the
-       last two statements in the file because they are already present in
-       1.02. This is not a cause for concern.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Dump/Reload Procedure
+                           Dump/Reload Procedure
 
    If you are trying to reload a pg_dump or text-mode, copy tablename to
    stdout generated with a previous version, you will need to run the
    attached "sed" script on the ASCII file before loading it into the
-   database. The old format used '.' as end-of-data, while '\.' is now the
-   end-of-data marker. Also, empty strings are now loaded in as '' rather
-   than NULL. See the copy manual page for full details.
-
-         sed 's/^\.$/\\./g' <in_file >out_file
-
-   If you are loading an older binary copy or non-stdout copy, there is no
-   end-of-data character, and hence no conversion necessary.
-
- -- following lines added by agc to reflect the case-insensitive
- -- regexp searching for varchar (in 1.02), and bpchar (in 1.02.1)
- create operator ~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Source code maintenance and development
-  * worldwide team of volunteers
-  * the source tree now in CVS at ftp.ki.net
-
- Enhancements
-  * psql (and underlying libpq library) now has many more options for
-    formatting output, including HTML
-  * pg_dump now output the schema and/or the data, with many fixes to
-    enhance completeness.
-  * psql used in place of monitor in administration shell scripts.
-    monitor to be depreciated in next release.
-  * date/time functions enhanced
-  * NULL insert/update/comparison fixed/enhanced
-  * TCL/TK lib and shell fixed to work with both tck7.4/tk4.0 and tcl7.5/tk4.1
-
- Bug Fixes (almost too numerous to mention)
-  * indexes
-  * storage management
-  * check for NULL pointer before dereferencing
-  * Makefile fixes
+   database. The old format used '.' as end-of-data, while '\.' is now
+   the end-of-data marker. Also, empty strings are now loaded in as ''
+   rather than NULL. See the copy manual page for full details.
+        sed 's/^\.$/\\./g' <in_file >out_file
+
+   If you are loading an older binary copy or non-stdout copy, there is
+   no end-of-data character, and hence no conversion necessary.
+-- following lines added by agc to reflect the case-insensitive
+-- regexp searching for varchar (in 1.02), and bpchar (in 1.02.1)
+create operator ~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexe
+q);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = bpchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregex
+ne);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregex
+eq);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticrege
+xne);
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
- New Ports
-  * added SolarisX86 port
-  * added BSDI 2.1 port
-  * added DGUX port
+                                  Changes
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Source code maintenance and development
+ * worldwide team of volunteers
+ * the source tree now in CVS at ftp.ki.net
+
+Enhancements
+ * psql (and underlying libpq library) now has many more options for
+   formatting output, including HTML
+ * pg_dump now output the schema and/or the data, with many fixes to
+   enhance completeness.
+ * psql used in place of monitor in administration shell scripts.
+   monitor to be deprecated in next release.
+ * date/time functions enhanced
+ * NULL insert/update/comparison fixed/enhanced
+ * TCL/TK lib and shell fixed to work with both tck7.4/tk4.0 and tcl7.5/tk4.1
+
+Bug Fixes (almost too numerous to mention)
+ * indexes
+ * storage management
+ * check for NULL pointer before dereferencing
+ * Makefile fixes
+
+New Ports
+ * added SolarisX86 port
+ * added BSD/OS 2.1 port
+ * added DG/UX port
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-                                  Release 1.01
+                                Release 1.01
 
      Release date: 1996-02-23
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01
+                 Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01
 
    The following notes are for the benefit of users who want to migrate
    databases from Postgres95 1.0 to Postgres95 1.01.
 
-   If you are starting afresh with Postgres95 1.01 and do not need to migrate
-   old databases, you do not need to read any further.
-
-   In order to Postgres95 version 1.01 with databases created with Postgres95
-   version 1.0, the following steps are required:
-
-   
-       OIDNAMELEN to 20.
-
-   
-
-        
-            data directory (typically the value of your $PGDATA).
-            "src/libpq/pg_hba" shows an example syntax.
-
-        
-            the line
-
-         HBA = 1
-
+   If you are starting afresh with Postgres95 1.01 and do not need to
+   migrate old databases, you do not need to read any further.
+
+   In order to Postgres95 version 1.01 with databases created with
+   Postgres95 version 1.0, the following steps are required:
+    1. Set the definition of NAMEDATALEN in "src/Makefile.global" to 16
+       and OIDNAMELEN to 20.
+    2. Decide whether you want to use Host based authentication.
+         a. If you do, you must create a file name pg_hba in your
+            top-level data directory (typically the value of your
+            $PGDATA). "src/libpq/pg_hba" shows an example syntax.
+         b. If you do not want host-based authentication, you can comment
+            out the line
+        HBA = 1
             in "src/Makefile.global"
+            Note that host-based authentication is turned on by default,
+            and if you do not take steps A or B above, the out-of-the-box
+            1.01 will not allow you to connect to 1.0 databases.
+    3. Compile and install 1.01, but DO NOT do the "initdb" step.
+    4. Before doing anything else, terminate your 1.0 postmaster, and
+       backup your existing $PGDATA directory.
+    5. Set your PGDATA environment variable to your 1.0 databases, but
+       set up path up so that 1.01 binaries are being used.
+    6. Modify the file "$PGDATA/PG_VERSION" from 5.0 to 5.1
+    7. Start up a new 1.01 postmaster
+    8. Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.01 to 1.0
+       databases. This is done by running the new 1.01 server against
+       your own 1.0 database and applying the queries attached and saving
+       in the file 1.0_to_1.01.sql. This can be done easily through
+       "psql". If your 1.0 database is name testdb:
+        % psql testdb -f 1.0_to_1.01.sql
+       and then execute the following commands (cut and paste from here):
+-- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01
+
+create function int4eqoid (int4, oid) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function oideqint4 (oid, int4) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char2icregexeq (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char2icregexne (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char4icregexeq (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char4icregexne (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char8icregexeq (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char8icregexne (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char16icregexeq (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function char16icregexne (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function texticregexeq (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+create function texticregexne (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
+language 'internal';
+
+-- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01
+
+create operator = (leftarg = int4, rightarg = oid, procedure = int4eqoid);
+create operator = (leftarg = oid, rightarg = int4, procedure = oideqint4);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregexe
+q);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregex
+ne);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregexe
+q);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregex
+ne);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregexe
+q);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregex
+ne);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icrege
+xeq);
+create operator !~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icreg
+exne);
+create operator ~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq)
+;
+create operator !~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne
+);
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-            Note that host-based authentication is turned on by default, and
-            if you do not take steps A or B above, the out-of-the-box 1.01
-            will not allow you to connect to 1.0 databases.
-
-   
+                                  Changes
 
-   
-       your existing $PGDATA directory.
+Incompatibilities:
+ * 1.01 is backwards compatible with 1.0 database provided the user
+   follow the steps outlined in the MIGRATION_from_1.0_to_1.01 file.
+   If those steps are not taken, 1.01 is not compatible with 1.0 database.
+
+Enhancements:
+ * added PQdisplayTuples() to libpq and changed monitor and psql to use it
+ * added NeXT port (requires SysVIPC implementation)
+ * added CAST .. AS ... syntax
+ * added ASC and DESC key words
+ * added 'internal' as a possible language for CREATE FUNCTION
+   internal functions are C functions which have been statically linked
+   into the postgres backend.
+ * a new type "name" has been added for system identifiers (table names,
+   attribute names, etc.)  This replaces the old char16 type.   The
+   of name is set by the NAMEDATALEN #define in src/Makefile.global
+ * a readable reference manual that describes the query language.
+ * added host-based access control.  A configuration file ($PGDATA/pg_hba)
+   is used to hold the configuration data.  If host-based access control
+   is not desired, comment out HBA=1 in src/Makefile.global.
+ * changed regex handling to be uniform use of Henry Spencer's regex code
+   regardless of platform.  The regex code is included in the distribution
+ * added functions and operators for case-insensitive regular expressions.
+   The operators are ~* and !~*.
+ * pg_dump uses COPY instead of SELECT loop for better performance
+
+Bug fixes:
+ * fixed an optimizer bug that was causing core dumps when
+   functions calls were used in comparisons in the WHERE clause
+ * changed all uses of getuid to geteuid so that effective uids are used
+ * psql now returns non-zero status on errors when using -c
+ * applied public patches 1-14
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   
-       path up so that 1.01 binaries are being used.
+                                Release 1.0
 
-   
+     Release date: 1995-09-05
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-   
+                                  Changes
 
-   
-       This is done by running the new 1.01 server against your own 1.0
-       database and applying the queries attached and saving in the file
-       1.0_to_1.01.sql. This can be done easily through "psql". If your 1.0
-       database is name testdb:
+Copyright change:
+ * The copyright of Postgres 1.0 has been loosened to be freely modifiable
+   and modifiable for any purpose.  Please read the COPYRIGHT file.
+   Thanks to Professor Michael Stonebraker for making this possible.
+
+Incompatibilities:
+ *  date formats have to be MM-DD-YYYY (or DD-MM-YYYY if you're using
+   EUROPEAN STYLE).  This follows SQL-92 specs.
+ *  "delimiters" is now a key word
+
+Enhancements:
+ *  sql LIKE syntax has been added
+ *  copy command now takes an optional USING DELIMITER specification.
+   delimiters can be any single-character string.
+ *  IRIX 5.3 port has been added.
+   Thanks to Paul Walmsley and others.
+ *  updated pg_dump to work with new libpq
+ *  \d has been added psql
+   Thanks to Keith Parks
+ *  regexp performance for architectures that use POSIX regex has been
+   improved due to caching of precompiled patterns.
+   Thanks to Alistair Crooks
+ *  a new version of libpq++
+   Thanks to William Wanders
+
+Bug fixes:
+ *  arbitrary userids can be specified in the createuser script
+ *  \c to connect to other databases in psql now works.
+ *  bad pg_proc entry for float4inc() is fixed
+ *  users with usecreatedb field set can now create databases without
+   having to be usesuper
+ *  remove access control entries when the entry no longer has any
+   privileges
+ *  fixed non-portable datetimes implementation
+ *  added kerberos flags to the src/backend/Makefile
+ *  libpq now works with kerberos
+ *  typographic errors in the user manual have been corrected.
+ *  btrees with multiple index never worked, now we tell you they don't
+   work when you try to use them
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-         % psql testdb -f 1.0_to_1.01.sql
+                          Postgres95 Release 0.03
 
-       and then execute the following commands (cut and paste from here):
+     Release date: 1995-07-21
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
- -- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01
-
- create function int4eqoid (int4, oid) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function oideqint4 (oid, int4) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char2icregexeq (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char2icregexne (char2, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char4icregexeq (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char4icregexne (char4, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char8icregexeq (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char8icregexne (char8, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char16icregexeq (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function char16icregexne (char16, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function texticregexeq (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
- create function texticregexne (text, text) returns bool as 'foo'
- language 'internal';
-
- -- add builtin functions that are new to 1.01
-
- create operator = (leftarg = int4, rightarg = oid, procedure = int4eqoid);
- create operator = (leftarg = oid, rightarg = int4, procedure = oideqint4);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = char2, rightarg = text, procedure = char2icregexne);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = char4, rightarg = text, procedure = char4icregexne);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = char8, rightarg = text, procedure = char8icregexne);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = char16, rightarg = text, procedure = char16icregexne);
- create operator ~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexeq);
- create operator !~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne);
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Incompatibilities:
-  * 1.01 is backwards compatible with 1.0 database provided the user
-    follow the steps outlined in the MIGRATION_from_1.0_to_1.01 file.
-    If those steps are not taken, 1.01 is not compatible with 1.0 database.
-
- Enhancements:
-  * added PQdisplayTuples() to libpq and changed monitor and psql to use it
-  * added NeXT port (requires SysVIPC implementation)
-  * added CAST .. AS ... syntax
-  * added ASC and DESC keywords
-  * added 'internal' as a possible language for CREATE FUNCTION
-    internal functions are C functions which have been statically linked
-    into the postgres backend.
-  * a new type "name" has been added for system identifiers (table names,
-    attribute names, etc.)  This replaces the old char16 type.   The
-    of name is set by the NAMEDATALEN #define in src/Makefile.global
-  * a readable reference manual that describes the query language.
-  * added host-based access control.  A configuration file ($PGDATA/pg_hba)
-    is used to hold the configuration data.  If host-based access control
-    is not desired, comment out HBA=1 in src/Makefile.global.
-  * changed regex handling to be uniform use of Henry Spencer's regex code
-    regardless of platform.  The regex code is included in the distribution
-  * added functions and operators for case-insensitive regular expressions.
-    The operators are ~* and !~*.
-  * pg_dump uses COPY instead of SELECT loop for better performance
-
- Bug fixes:
-  * fixed an optimizer bug that was causing core dumps when
-    functions calls were used in comparisons in the WHERE clause
-  * changed all uses of getuid to geteuid so that effective uids are used
-  * psql now returns non-zero status on errors when using -c
-  * applied public patches 1-14
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                                  Release 1.0
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1995-09-05
+Incompatible changes:
+ * BETA-0.3 IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DATABASES CREATED WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS
+   (due to system catalog changes and indexing structure changes).
+ * double-quote (") is deprecated as a quoting character for string literals;
+   you need to convert them to single quotes (').
+ * name of aggregates (eg. int4sum) are renamed in accordance with the
+   SQL standard (eg. sum).
+ * CHANGE ACL syntax is replaced by GRANT/REVOKE syntax.
+ * float literals (eg. 3.14) are now of type float4 (instead of float8 in
+   previous releases); you might have to do typecasting if you depend on it
+   being of type float8.  If you neglect to do the typecasting and you assign
+   a float literal to a field of type float8, you may get incorrect values
+   stored!
+ * LIBPQ has been totally revamped so that frontend applications
+   can connect to multiple backends
+ * the usesysid field in pg_user has been changed from int2 to int4 to
+   allow wider range of Unix user ids.
+ * the netbsd/freebsd/bsd o/s ports have been consolidated into a
+   single BSD44_derived port.  (thanks to Alistair Crooks)
+
+SQL standard-compliance (the following details changes that makes postgres95
+more compliant to the SQL-92 standard):
+ * the following SQL types are now built-in: smallint, int(eger), float, real,
+   char(N), varchar(N), date and time.
+
+   The following are aliases to existing postgres types:
+                smallint -> int2
+                integer, int -> int4
+                float, real  -> float4
+   char(N) and varchar(N) are implemented as truncated text types. In
+   addition, char(N) does blank-padding.
+ * single-quote (') is used for quoting string literals; '' (in addition to
+   \') is supported as means of inserting a single quote in a string
+ * SQL standard aggregate names (MAX, MIN, AVG, SUM, COUNT) are used
+   (Also, aggregates can now be overloaded, i.e. you can define your
+   own MAX aggregate to take in a user-defined type.)
+ * CHANGE ACL removed. GRANT/REVOKE syntax added.
+   - Privileges can be given to a group using the "GROUP" key word.
+        For example:
+                GRANT SELECT ON foobar TO GROUP my_group;
+        The key word 'PUBLIC' is also supported to mean all users.
+
+        Privileges can only be granted or revoked to one user or group
+        at a time.
+
+        "WITH GRANT OPTION" is not supported.  Only class owners can change
+        access control
+   - The default access control is to to grant users readonly access.
+     You must explicitly grant insert/update access to users.  To change
+     this, modify the line in
+                src/backend/utils/acl.h
+     that defines ACL_WORLD_DEFAULT
+
+Bug fixes:
+ * the bug where aggregates of empty tables were not run has been fixed. Now,
+   aggregates run on empty tables will return the initial conditions of the
+   aggregates. Thus, COUNT of an empty  table will now properly return 0.
+   MAX/MIN of an empty table will return a row of value NULL.
+ * allow the use of \; inside the monitor
+ * the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work
+ * NOTIFY in rule action bodies now work
+ * hash indexes work, and access methods in general should perform better.
+   creation of large btree indexes should be much faster.  (thanks to Paul
+   Aoki)
+
+Other changes and enhancements:
+ * addition of an EXPLAIN statement used for explaining the query execution
+   plan (eg. "EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM EMP" prints out the execution plan for
+   the query).
+ * WARN and NOTICE messages no longer have timestamps on them. To turn on
+   timestamps of error messages, uncomment the line in
+   src/backend/utils/elog.h:
+        /* define ELOG_TIMESTAMPS */
+ * On an access control violation, the message
+        "Either no such class or insufficient privilege"
+   will be given.  This is the same message that is returned when
+   a class is not found.  This dissuades non-privileged users from
+   guessing the existence of privileged classes.
+ * some additional system catalog changes have been made that are not
+   visible to the user.
+
+libpgtcl changes:
+ * The -oid option has been added to the "pg_result" tcl command.
+   pg_result -oid returns oid of the last row inserted.   If the
+   last command was not an INSERT, then pg_result -oid returns "".
+ * the large object interface is available as pg_lo* tcl commands:
+   pg_lo_open, pg_lo_close, pg_lo_creat, etc.
+
+Portability enhancements and New Ports:
+ * flex/lex problems have been cleared up.  Now, you should be able to use
+   flex instead of lex on any platforms.  We no longer make assumptions of
+   what lexer you use based on the platform you use.
+ * The Linux-ELF port is now supported.  Various configuration have been
+   tested:  The following configuration is known to work:
+        kernel 1.2.10, gcc 2.6.3, libc 4.7.2, flex 2.5.2, bison 1.24
+   with everything in ELF format,
+
+New utilities:
+ * ipcclean added to the distribution
+   ipcclean usually does not need to be run, but if your backend crashes
+   and leaves shared memory segments hanging around, ipcclean will
+   clean them up for you.
+
+New documentation:
+ * the user manual has been revised and libpq documentation added.
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Copyright change:
-  * The copyright of Postgres 1.0 has been loosened to be freely modifiable
-    and modifiable for any purpose.  Please read the COPYRIGHT file.
-    Thanks to Professor Michael Stonebraker for making this possible.
-
- Incompatibilities:
-  *  date formats have to be MM-DD-YYYY (or DD-MM-YYYY if you're using
-    EUROPEAN STYLE).  This follows SQL-92 specs.
-  *  "delimiters" is now a keyword
-
- Enhancements:
-  *  sql LIKE syntax has been added
-  *  copy command now takes an optional USING DELIMITER specification.
-    delimiters can be any single-character string.
-  *  IRIX 5.3 port has been added.
-    Thanks to Paul Walmsley and others.
-  *  updated pg_dump to work with new libpq
-  *  \d has been added psql
-    Thanks to Keith Parks
-  *  regexp performance for architectures that use POSIX regex has been
-    improved due to caching of precompiled patterns.
-    Thanks to Alistair Crooks
-  *  a new version of libpq++
-    Thanks to William Wanders
-
- Bug fixes:
-  *  arbitrary userids can be specified in the createuser script
-  *  \c to connect to other databases in psql now works.
-  *  bad pg_proc entry for float4inc() is fixed
-  *  users with usecreatedb field set can now create databases without
-    having to be usesuper
-  *  remove access control entries when the entry no longer has any
-    permissions
-  *  fixed non-portable datetimes implementation
-  *  added kerberos flags to the src/backend/Makefile
-  *  libpq now works with kerberos
-  *  typographic errors in the user manual have been corrected.
-  *  btrees with multiple index never worked, now we tell you they don't
-    work when you try to use them
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                            Postgres95 Release 0.03
+                          Postgres95 Release 0.02
 
-     Release date: 1995-07-21
+     Release date: 1995-05-25
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Incompatible changes:
-  * BETA-0.3 IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DATABASES CREATED WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS
-    (due to system catalog changes and indexing structure changes).
-  * double-quote (") is deprecated as a quoting character for string literals;
-    you need to convert them to single quotes (').
-  * name of aggregates (eg. int4sum) are renamed in accordance with the
-    SQL standard (eg. sum).
-  * CHANGE ACL syntax is replaced by GRANT/REVOKE syntax.
-  * float literals (eg. 3.14) are now of type float4 (instead of float8 in
-    previous releases); you might have to do typecasting if you depend on it
-    being of type float8.  If you neglect to do the typecasting and you assign
-    a float literal to a field of type float8, you may get incorrect values
-    stored!
-  * LIBPQ has been totally revamped so that frontend applications
-    can connect to multiple backends
-  * the usesysid field in pg_user has been changed from int2 to int4 to
-    allow wider range of Unix user ids.
-  * the netbsd/freebsd/bsd o/s ports have been consolidated into a
-    single BSD44_derived port.  (thanks to Alistair Crooks)
-
- SQL standard-compliance (the following details changes that makes postgres95
- more compliant to the SQL-92 standard):
-  * the following SQL types are now built-in: smallint, int(eger), float, real,
-    char(N), varchar(N), date and time.
-
-    The following are aliases to existing postgres types:
-                 smallint -> int2
-                 integer, int -> int4
-                 float, real  -> float4
-    char(N) and varchar(N) are implemented as truncated text types. In
-    addition, char(N) does blank-padding.
-  * single-quote (') is used for quoting string literals; '' (in addition to
-    \') is supported as means of inserting a single quote in a string
-  * SQL standard aggregate names (MAX, MIN, AVG, SUM, COUNT) are used
-    (Also, aggregates can now be overloaded, i.e. you can define your
-    own MAX aggregate to take in a user-defined type.)
-  * CHANGE ACL removed. GRANT/REVOKE syntax added. 
-    - Privileges can be given to a group using the "GROUP" keyword.
-         For example:
-                 GRANT SELECT ON foobar TO GROUP my_group;
-         The keyword 'PUBLIC' is also supported to mean all users.      
-
-         Privileges can only be granted or revoked to one user or group
-         at a time. 
-
-         "WITH GRANT OPTION" is not supported.  Only class owners can change
-         access control
-    - The default access control is to to grant users readonly access.
-      You must explicitly grant insert/update access to users.  To change
-      this, modify the line in
-                 src/backend/utils/acl.h
-      that defines ACL_WORLD_DEFAULT
-
- Bug fixes:
-  * the bug where aggregates of empty tables were not run has been fixed. Now,
-    aggregates run on empty tables will return the initial conditions of the
-    aggregates. Thus, COUNT of an empty  table will now properly return 0.
-    MAX/MIN of an empty table will return a tuple of value NULL.
-  * allow the use of \; inside the monitor
-  * the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work
-  * NOTIFY in rule action bodies now work
-  * hash indexes work, and access methods in general should perform better.
-    creation of large btree indexes should be much faster.  (thanks to Paul
-    Aoki)
-
- Other changes and enhancements:
-  * addition of an EXPLAIN statement used for explaining the query execution
-    plan (eg. "EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM EMP" prints out the execution plan for
-    the query).
-  * WARN and NOTICE messages no longer have timestamps on them. To turn on
-    timestamps of error messages, uncomment the line in
-    src/backend/utils/elog.h:
-         /* define ELOG_TIMESTAMPS */
-  * On an access control violation, the message
-         "Either no such class or insufficient privilege"
-    will be given.  This is the same message that is returned when
-    a class is not found.  This dissuades non-privileged users from
-    guessing the existence of privileged classes.
-  * some additional system catalog changes have been made that are not
-    visible to the user.
-
- libpgtcl changes:
-  * The -oid option has been added to the "pg_result" tcl command.
-    pg_result -oid returns oid of the last tuple inserted.   If the
-    last command was not an INSERT, then pg_result -oid returns "".
-  * the large object interface is available as pg_lo* tcl commands:
-    pg_lo_open, pg_lo_close, pg_lo_creat, etc.
-
- Portability enhancements and New Ports:
-  * flex/lex problems have been cleared up.  Now, you should be able to use
-    flex instead of lex on any platforms.  We no longer make assumptions of
-    what lexer you use based on the platform you use.
-  * The Linux-ELF port is now supported.  Various configuration have been
-    tested:  The following configuration is known to work:
-         kernel 1.2.10, gcc 2.6.3, libc 4.7.2, flex 2.5.2, bison 1.24
-    with everything in ELF format,
-
- New utilities:
-  * ipcclean added to the distribution
-    ipcclean usually does not need to be run, but if your backend crashes
-    and leaves shared memory segments hanging around, ipcclean will
-    clean them up for you.
-
- New documentation:
-  * the user manual has been revised and libpq documentation added.
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                            Postgres95 Release 0.02
+                                  Changes
 
-     Release date: 1995-05-25
+Incompatible changes:
+ * The SQL statement for creating a database is 'CREATE DATABASE' instead
+   of 'CREATEDB'. Similarly, dropping a database is 'DROP DATABASE' instead
+   of 'DESTROYDB'. However, the names of the executables 'createdb' and
+   'destroydb' remain the same.
+
+New tools:
+ * pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
+ * pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
+        script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
+        format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
+        machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
+        a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
+
+The following ports have been incorporated into postgres95-beta-0.02:
+ * the NetBSD port by Alistair Crooks
+ * the AIX port by Mike Tung
+ * the Windows NT port by Jon Forrest (more stuff but not done yet)
+ * the Linux ELF port by Brian Gallew
+
+The following bugs have been fixed in postgres95-beta-0.02:
+ * new lines not escaped in COPY OUT and problem with COPY OUT when first
+   attribute is a '.'
+ * cannot type return to use the default user id in createuser
+ * SELECT DISTINCT on big tables crashes
+ * Linux installation problems
+ * monitor doesn't allow use of 'localhost' as PGHOST
+ * psql core dumps when doing \c or \l
+ * the "pgtclsh" target missing from src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile
+ * libpgtcl has a hard-wired default port number
+ * SELECT DISTINCT INTO TABLE hangs
+ * CREATE TYPE doesn't accept 'variable' as the internallength
+ * wrong result using more than 1 aggregate in a SELECT
+     _________________________________________________________________
 
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Changes
-
- Incompatible changes:
-  * The SQL statement for creating a database is 'CREATE DATABASE' instead
-    of 'CREATEDB'. Similarly, dropping a database is 'DROP DATABASE' instead
-    of 'DESTROYDB'. However, the names of the executables 'createdb' and
-    'destroydb' remain the same.
- 
- New tools:
-  * pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
-  * pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
-         script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
-         format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
-         machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
-         a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
-
- The following ports have been incorporated into postgres95-beta-0.02:
-  * the NetBSD port by Alistair Crooks
-  * the AIX port by Mike Tung
-  * the Windows NT port by Jon Forrest (more stuff but not done yet)
-  * the Linux ELF port by Brian Gallew
-
- The following bugs have been fixed in postgres95-beta-0.02:
-  * new lines not escaped in COPY OUT and problem with COPY OUT when first
-    attribute is a '.'
-  * cannot type return to use the default user id in createuser
-  * SELECT DISTINCT on big tables crashes
-  * Linux installation problems
-  * monitor doesn't allow use of 'localhost' as PGHOST
-  * psql core dumps when doing \c or \l
-  * the "pgtclsh" target missing from src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile
-  * libpgtcl has a hard-wired default port number
-  * SELECT DISTINCT INTO TABLE hangs
-  * CREATE TYPE doesn't accept 'variable' as the internallength
-  * wrong result using more than 1 aggregate in a SELECT
-
-     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-                            Postgres95 Release 0.01
+                          Postgres95 Release 0.01
 
      Release date: 1995-05-01
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 26ce7485ab..da4062a7fb 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ ac_config_sub=$ac_aux_dir/config.sub
 ac_configure=$ac_aux_dir/configure # This should be Cygnus configure.
 
 
-VERSION='7.2.6'
+VERSION='7.2.7'
 
 cat >> confdefs.h <<EOF
 #define PG_VERSION "$VERSION"
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0499d1df3f..ec270c7ba9 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/include/pg_config.h)
 AC_PREREQ(2.13)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 
-VERSION='7.2.6'
+VERSION='7.2.7'
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PG_VERSION, "$VERSION")
 
diff --git a/doc/bug.template b/doc/bug.template
index eaf100eed4..5a972f6c14 100644
--- a/doc/bug.template
+++ b/doc/bug.template
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ System Configuration
 
   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) 	:
 
-  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.2.6):   PostgreSQL-7.2.6
+  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.2.7):   PostgreSQL-7.2.7
 
   Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.95.2)		:
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
index ddf750c81e..503f0a5dcc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.49 2002/01/30 21:54:17 petere Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.49.2.1 2005/01/30 20:32:41 tgl Exp $
 #
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ ifndef SGMLSPL
 SGMLSPL = sgmlspl
 endif
 
+ifndef LYNX
+LYNX = lynx
+endif
+
 CONVERT = convert
 EPSTOPDF = epstopdf
 
@@ -190,10 +194,7 @@ $(addsuffix .fot, $(ALLBOOKS)): %.fot: %.sgml $(ALLSGML) stylesheet.dsl
 JADE.text = $(JADE) $(JADEFLAGS) $(SGMLINCLUDE) -c $(CATALOG) -d stylesheet.dsl -i output-text -t sgml
 
 INSTALL HISTORY regress_README: % : %.html
-	@echo "|";\
-	 echo "| You should now take '$<', save it as a text file in Netscape,";\
-	 echo "| and put it in place of the existing '$@' file.";\
-	 echo "|"
+	$(PERL) -p -e 's/<H(1|2)$$/<H\1 align=center/g' $< | $(LYNX) -force_html -dump -nolist -stdin >$@
 
 INSTALL.html: standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml
 	$(JADE.text) -V nochunks $+ >$@
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 75dbcdb518..c9a6be0df0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,10 +1,58 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.115.2.10 2004/10/22 00:27:33 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.115.2.11 2005/01/30 20:32:41 tgl Exp $
 -->
 
 <appendix id="release">
  <title>Release Notes</title>
 
+  <sect1 id="release-7-2-7">
+   <title>Release 7.2.7</title>
+
+   <note>
+   <title>Release date</title>
+   <simpara>2005-01-31</simpara>
+   </note>
+
+   <para>
+    This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.6, including several
+    security-related issues.
+   </para>
+
+   <sect2>
+    <title>Migration to version 7.2.7</title>
+
+    <para>
+     A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
+    </para>
+   </sect2>
+
+   <sect2>
+    <title>Changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Disallow <command>LOAD</> to non-superusers</para>
+<para>
+On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
+shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
+<command>LOAD</> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code.
+Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
+Jurka)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
+many parameters (Neil)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</para>
+<para>
+The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
+left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
+in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN
+datestyles</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+  </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
   <sect1 id="release-7-2-6">
    <title>Release 7.2.6</title>
 
@@ -99,184 +147,169 @@ since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
 
-  <sect1 id="release-7-2-4">
-   <title>Release 7.2.4</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-2-4">
+  <title>Release 7.2.4</title>
 
-   <note>
+  <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
    <simpara>2003-01-30</simpara>
-   </note>
-
-   <para>
-    This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.3, including fixes to prevent
-    possible data loss.
-   </para>
+  </note>
 
+  <para>
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.3,
+   including fixes to prevent possible data loss.
+  </para>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Migration to version 7.2.4</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Migration to version 7.2.4</title>
 
-    <para>
-     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
-     7.2.X.
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
+   <para>
+    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
+    running version 7.2.*.
+   </para>
+  </sect2>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Changes</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Changes</title>
 
-    <para>
-<literallayout>
-Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found" error
-Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function  (Bruce)
-Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint complete
-Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins
-Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough to be toasted
-Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being recognized
-Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()  (Neil)
-Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()
-</literallayout>
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
-  </sect1>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found" error</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function  (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint complete</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough to be toasted</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being recognized</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()  (Neil)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+  </sect2>
+ </sect1>
 
 
-  <sect1 id="release-7-2-3">
-   <title>Release 7.2.3</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-2-3">
+  <title>Release 7.2.3</title>
 
-   <note>
+  <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
    <simpara>2002-10-01</simpara>
-   </note>
-
-   <para>
-    This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.2, including fixes to prevent
-    possible data loss.
-   </para>
+  </note>
 
+  <para>
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.2,
+   including fixes to prevent possible data loss.
+  </para>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Migration to version 7.2.3</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Migration to version 7.2.3</title>
 
-    <para>
-     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
-     7.2.X.
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
+   <para>
+    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
+    running version 7.2.*.
+   </para>
+  </sect2>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Changes</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Changes</title>
 
-    <para>
-<literallayout>
-Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
-Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)
-Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
-Fix possible hang during server shutdown
-Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
-Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
-</literallayout>
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
-  </sect1>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix possible hang during server shutdown</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix <application>pg_dump</> to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+  </sect2>
+ </sect1>
   
   
-  <sect1 id="release-7-2-2">
-   <title>Release 7.2.2</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-2-2">
+  <title>Release 7.2.2</title>
 
-   <note>
+  <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
    <simpara>2002-08-23</simpara>
-   </note>
-
-   <para>
-    This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.1, including the security
-    problems reported on BUGTRAQ.
-   </para>
+  </note>
 
+  <para>
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.1.
+  </para>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Migration to version 7.2.2</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Migration to version 7.2.2</title>
 
-    <para>
-     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
-     7.2.X.
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
+   <para>
+    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
+    running version 7.2.*.
+   </para>
+  </sect2>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Changes</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Changes</title>
 
-    <para>
-<literallayout>
-Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
-Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)
-Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f (Tatsuo)
-Fix for psql and pg_dump crashing when invoked with non-existand long 
-  options (Tatsuo)
-Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)
-Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)
-Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)
-Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)
-Contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)
-Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)
-Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)
-Fix for crash with long DATA strings (Thomes, Neil)
-Fix for repeat(), lpad(), rpad() and long strings (Neil)
-</literallayout>
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
-  </sect1>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes &gt; 0x7f (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for psql and <application>pg_dump</> crashing when invoked with non-existent long options (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for crash with long DATA strings (Thomas, Neil)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for repeat(), lpad(), rpad() and long strings (Neil)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+  </sect2>
+ </sect1>
   
   
-  <sect1 id="release-7-2-1">
-   <title>Release 7.2.1</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-2-1">
+  <title>Release 7.2.1</title>
 
-   <note>
+  <note>
    <title>Release date</title>
    <simpara>2002-03-21</simpara>
-   </note>
-
-   <para>
-    This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.
-   </para>
+  </note>
 
+  <para>
+   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.
+  </para>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Migration to version 7.2.1</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Migration to version 7.2.1</title>
 
-    <para>
-     A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
-     7.2.
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
+   <para>
+    A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
+    running version 7.2.
+   </para>
+  </sect2>
 
-   <sect2>
-    <title>Changes</title>
+  <sect2>
+   <title>Changes</title>
 
-    <para>
-     <programlisting>
-Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash (Tom)
-Fix pgaccess kanji-coversion key binding (Tatsuo)
-Optimizer improvements (Tom)
-cash I/O improvements (Tom)
-New Russian FAQ
-Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)
-Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)
-Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names (Tom)
-Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules (Tom)
-Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)
-Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds (Tatsuo)
-Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)
-contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)
-contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for
-  an additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)
-Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)
-Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
-     </programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </sect2>
-  </sect1>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix pgaccess kanji-conversion key binding (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Optimizer improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Cash I/O improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New Russian FAQ</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for an additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+  </sect2>
+ </sect1>
 
 
  <sect1 id="release-7-2">
@@ -322,11 +355,11 @@ Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
      </varlistentry>
  
      <varlistentry>
-      <term>OID's</term>
+      <term>OIDs</term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        OID's are now optional.  Users can now create tables without
-        OID's for cases where OID usage is excessive.
+        OIDs are now optional.  Users can now create tables without
+        OIDs for cases where OID usage is excessive.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -428,14 +461,12 @@ Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
 
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       The <literal>timestamp()</literal> function is no longer
-       available.  Use <literal>timestamp 'string'</literal> instead, 
-       or <literal>CAST</literal>.
+       The <literal>timestamp()</literal>, <literal>time()</literal>,
+       and <literal>interval()</literal> functions are no longer
+       available.  Instead of <literal>timestamp()</literal>, use 
+       <literal>timestamp 'string'</literal> or <literal>CAST</literal>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
-
-
-
     </itemizedlist>
    </para>
 
@@ -452,384 +483,384 @@ Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Server Operation</title>
-<literallayout>
-Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce)
-Delete orphaned temporary files on postmaster startup (Bruce)
-Added unique indexes to some system tables (Tom)
-System table operator reorganization (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)
-Renamed pg_log to pg_clog (Tom)
-Enable SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to kill backends (Jan)
-Removed compile-time limit on number of backends (Tom)
-Better cleanup for semaphore resource failure (Tatsuo, Tom)
-Allow safe transaction ID wraparound (Tom)
-Removed OID's from some system tables (Tom)
-Removed "triggered data change violation" error check (Tom)
-SPI portal creation of prepared/saved plans (Jan)
-Allow SPI column functions to work for system columns (Tom)
-Long value compression improvement (Tom)
-Statistics collector for table, index access (Jan)
-Truncate extra-long sequence names to a reasonable value (Tom)
-Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)
-Fix TID sequential scans (Hiroshi)
-Superuser ID now fixed at 1 (Peter E)
-New pg_ctl "reload" option (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Delete orphaned temporary files on postmaster startup (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Added unique indexes to some system tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>System table operator reorganization (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Renamed pg_log to pg_clog (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Enable SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to kill backends (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Removed compile-time limit on number of backends (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Better cleanup for semaphore resource failure (Tatsuo, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow safe transaction ID wraparound (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Removed OIDs from some system tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Removed "triggered data change violation" error check (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>SPI portal creation of prepared/saved plans (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow SPI column functions to work for system columns (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Long value compression improvement (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Statistics collector for table, index access (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Truncate extra-long sequence names to a reasonable value (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Measure transaction times in milliseconds (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix TID sequential scans (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Superuser ID now fixed at 1 (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New pg_ctl "reload" option (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Performance</title>
-<literallayout>
-Optimizer improvements (Tom)
-New histogram column statistics for optimizer (Tom)
-Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)
-Cache improvements (Tom)
-IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)
-Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)
-Keep relcache entries for index access support functions (Tom)
-Allow better selectivity with NaN and infinities in NUMERIC (Tom)
-R-tree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)
-B-tree splits more efficient (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Optimizer improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New histogram column statistics for optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Reuse write-ahead log files rather than discarding them (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Cache improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>IS NULL, IS NOT NULL optimizer improvement (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improve lock manager to reduce lock contention (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Keep relcache entries for index access support functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow better selectivity with NaN and infinities in NUMERIC (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>R-tree performance improvements (Kenneth Been)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>B-tree splits more efficient (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Privileges</title>
-<literallayout>
-Change UPDATE, DELETE permissions to be distinct (Peter E)
-New REFERENCES, TRIGGER privileges (Peter E)
-Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user at a time (Peter E)
-New has_table_privilege() function (Joe Conway)
-Allow non-superuser to vacuum database (Tom)
-New SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command (Peter E)
-Fix bug in privilege modifications on newly created tables (Tom)
-Disallow access to pg_statistic for non-superuser, add user-accessible views (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Change UPDATE, DELETE privileges to be distinct (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New REFERENCES, TRIGGER privileges (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user at a time (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New has_table_privilege() function (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow non-superuser to vacuum database (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix bug in privilege modifications on newly created tables (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Disallow access to pg_statistic for non-superuser, add user-accessible views (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Client Authentication</title>
-<literallayout>
-Fork postmaster before doing authentication to prevent hangs (Peter E)
-Add ident authentication over Unix domain sockets on Linux, *BSD (Helge Bahmann, Oliver Elphick, Teodor Sigaev, Bruce)
-Add a password authentication method that uses MD5 encryption (Bruce)
-Allow encryption of stored passwords using MD5 (Bruce)
-PAM authentication (Dominic J. Eidson)
-Load pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf only on startup and SIGHUP (Bruce)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Fork postmaster before doing authentication to prevent hangs (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ident authentication over Unix domain sockets on Linux, *BSD (Helge Bahmann, Oliver Elphick, Teodor Sigaev, Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add a password authentication method that uses MD5 encryption (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow encryption of stored passwords using MD5 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>PAM authentication (Dominic J. Eidson)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Load pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf only on startup and SIGHUP (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Server Configuration</title>
-<literallayout>
-Interpretation of some time zone abbreviations as Australian rather than North American now settable at run time (Bruce)
-New parameter to set default transaction isolation level (Peter E)
-New parameter to enable conversion of "expr = NULL" into "expr IS NULL", off by default (Peter E)
-New parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)
-New parameter to set client authentication timeout (Tom)
-New parameter to set maximum number of open files (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Interpretation of some time zone abbreviations as Australian rather than North American now settable at run time (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New parameter to set default transaction isolation level (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New parameter to enable conversion of "expr = NULL" into "expr IS NULL", off by default (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New parameter to control memory usage by VACUUM (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New parameter to set client authentication timeout (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New parameter to set maximum number of open files (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Queries</title>
-<literallayout>
-Statements added by INSERT rules now execute after the INSERT (Jan)
-Prevent unadorned relation names in target list (Bruce)
-NULLs now sort after all normal values in ORDER BY (Tom)
-New IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN Boolean tests (Tom)
-New SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode (Tom)
-New EXPLAIN ANALYZE command that shows run times and row counts (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-Fix problem with LIMIT and subqueries (Tom)
-Fix for LIMIT, DISTINCT ON pushed into subqueries (Tom)
-Fix nested EXCEPT/INTERSECT (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Statements added by INSERT rules now execute after the INSERT (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent unadorned relation names in target list (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>NULLs now sort after all normal values in ORDER BY (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN Boolean tests (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New EXPLAIN ANALYZE command that shows run times and row counts (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix problem with LIMIT and subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for LIMIT, DISTINCT ON pushed into subqueries (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix nested EXCEPT/INTERSECT (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Schema Manipulation</title>
-<literallayout>
-Fix SERIAL in temporary tables (Bruce)
-Allow temporary sequences (Bruce)
-Sequences now use int8 internally (Tom)
-New SERIAL8 creates int8 columns with sequences, default still SERIAL4 (Tom)
-Make OIDs optional using WITHOUT OIDS (Tom)
-Add %TYPE syntax to CREATE TYPE (Ian Lance Taylor)
-Add ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT for CHECK constraints (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-New CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to alter existing function (preserving the function OID) (Gavin Sherry)
-Add ALTER TABLE / ADD [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ] (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-Allow column renaming in views
-Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)
-Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)
-ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)
-DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype (Tom)
-Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)
-Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)
-Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Fix SERIAL in temporary tables (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow temporary sequences (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Sequences now use int8 internally (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New SERIAL8 creates int8 columns with sequences, default still SERIAL4 (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make OIDs optional using WITHOUT OIDS (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add %TYPE syntax to CREATE TYPE (Ian Lance Taylor)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT for CHECK constraints (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to alter existing function (preserving the function OID) (Gavin Sherry)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ALTER TABLE / ADD [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ] (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow column renaming in views</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Utility Commands</title>
-<literallayout>
-Add RESET ALL, SHOW ALL (Marko Kreen)
-CREATE/ALTER USER/GROUP now allow options in any order (Vince)
-Add LOCK A, B, C functionality (Neil Padgett)
-New ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER USER (Bruce)
-New light-weight VACUUM does not lock table; old semantics are available as VACUUM FULL (Tom)
-Disable COPY TO/FROM on views (Bruce)
-COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one character (Tom)
-VACUUM warning about index tuples fewer than heap now only appears when appropriate (Martijn van Oosterhout)
-Fix permission checks for CREATE INDEX (Tom)
-Disallow inappropriate use of CREATE/DROP INDEX/TRIGGER/VIEW (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Add RESET ALL, SHOW ALL (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>CREATE/ALTER USER/GROUP now allow options in any order (Vince)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add LOCK A, B, C functionality (Neil Padgett)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER USER (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New light-weight VACUUM does not lock table; old semantics are available as VACUUM FULL (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Disable COPY TO/FROM on views (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one character (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>VACUUM warning about index tuples fewer than heap now only appears when appropriate (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix privilege checks for CREATE INDEX (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Disallow inappropriate use of CREATE/DROP INDEX/TRIGGER/VIEW (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Data Types and Functions</title>
-<literallayout>
-SUM(), AVG(), COUNT() now uses int8 internally for speed (Tom)
-Add convert(), convert2() (Tatsuo)
-New function bit_length() (Peter E)
-Make the "n" in CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) represents letters, not bytes (Tatsuo)
-CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)
-BIT VARYING now rejects bit strings that are too long (Peter E)
-BIT now rejects bit strings that do not match declared size (Peter E)
-INET, CIDR text conversion functions (Alex Pilosov)
-INET, CIDR operators << and <<= indexable (Alex Pilosov)
-Bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number
-Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, &lt;&gt;, >, >=, <, and <=
-Bytea now supports B-tree indexes
-Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE
-Bytea now supports concatenation
-New bytea functions: position, substring, trim, btrim, and length
-New encode() function mode, "escaped", converts minimally escaped bytea to/from text
-Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)
-Add pg_client_encoding() function (Tatsuo)
-now() returns time with millisecond precision (Thomas)
-New TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE data type (Thomas)
-Add ISO date/time specification with "T", yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (Thomas)
-New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)
-Add precision to TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INVERVAL data types (Thomas)
-Modify type coercion logic to attempt binary-compatible functions first (Tom)
-New encode() function installed by default (Marko Kreen)
-Improved to_*() conversion functions (Karel Zak)
-Optimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
-New functions in contrib/pgcrypto: crypt(), hmac(), encrypt(), gen_salt() (Marko Kreen)
-Correct description of translate() function (Bruce)
-Add INTERVAL argument for SET TIME ZONE (Thomas)
-Add INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH (etc.) syntax (Thomas)
-Optimize length functions when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
-Fix path_inter, path_distance, path_length, dist_ppath to handle closed paths (Curtis Barrett, Tom)
-octet_length(text) now returns non-compressed length (Tatsuo, Bruce)
-Handle "July" full name in date/time literals (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-Some datatype() function calls now evaluated differently
-Add support for Julian and ISO time specifications (Thomas)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>SUM(), AVG(), COUNT() now uses int8 internally for speed (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add convert(), convert2() (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New function bit_length() (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make the "n" in CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) represents letters, not bytes (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>BIT VARYING now rejects bit strings that are too long (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>BIT now rejects bit strings that do not match declared size (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>INET, CIDR text conversion functions (Alex Pilosov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>INET, CIDR operators &lt;&lt; and &lt;&lt;= indexable (Alex Pilosov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, &lt;&gt;, &gt;, &gt;=, &lt;, and &lt;=</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bytea now supports B-tree indexes</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bytea now supports concatenation</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New bytea functions: position, substring, trim, btrim, and length</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New encode() function mode, "escaped", converts minimally escaped bytea to/from text</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add pg_database_encoding_max_length() (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add pg_client_encoding() function (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>now() returns time with millisecond precision (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE data type (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ISO date/time specification with "T", yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New xid/int comparison functions (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add precision to TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL data types (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Modify type coercion logic to attempt binary-compatible functions first (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New encode() function installed by default (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improved to_*() conversion functions (Karel Zak)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Optimize LIKE/ILIKE when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New functions in contrib/pgcrypto: crypt(), hmac(), encrypt(), gen_salt() (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Correct description of translate() function (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add INTERVAL argument for SET TIME ZONE (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH (etc.) syntax (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Optimize length functions when using single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix path_inter, path_distance, path_length, dist_ppath to handle closed paths (Curtis Barrett, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>octet_length(text) now returns non-compressed length (Tatsuo, Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Handle "July" full name in date/time literals (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Some datatype() function calls now evaluated differently</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add support for Julian and ISO time specifications (Thomas)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Internationalization</title>
-<literallayout>
-National language support in psql, pg_dump, libpq, and server (Peter E)
-Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A. Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)
-Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte aware (Tatsuo)
-Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)
-Add ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)
-Correct LATIN5 to mean ISO-8859-9, not ISO-8859-5 (Tatsuo)
-Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)
-Reject invalid multibyte character sequences (Tatsuo)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>National language support in psql, <application>pg_dump</>, libpq, and server (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Message translations in Chinese (simplified, traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish (Peter E, Serguei A. Mokhov, Karel Zak, Weiping He, Zhenbang Wei, Kovacs Zoltan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make trim, ltrim, rtrim, btrim, lpad, rpad, translate multibyte aware (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add LATIN5,6,7,8,9,10 support (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ISO 8859-5,6,7,8 support (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Correct LATIN5 to mean ISO-8859-9, not ISO-8859-5 (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make mic2ascii() non-ASCII aware (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Reject invalid multibyte character sequences (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
-    <title>PL/pgSQL</title>
-<literallayout>
-Now uses portals for SELECT loops, allowing huge result sets (Jan)
-CURSOR and REFCURSOR support (Jan)
-Can now return open cursors (Jan)
-Add ELSEIF (Klaus Reger)
-Improve PL/pgSQL error reporting, including location of error (Tom)
-Allow IS or FOR key words in cursor declaration, for compatibility (Bruce)
-Fix for SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (Tom)
-Fix for PERFORM returning multiple rows (Tom)
-Make PL/pgSQL use the server's type coercion code (Tom)
-Memory leak fix (Jan, Tom)
-Make trailing semicolon optional (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+    <title><application>PL/pgSQL</></title>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Now uses portals for SELECT loops, allowing huge result sets (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>CURSOR and REFCURSOR support (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Can now return open cursors (Jan)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add ELSEIF (Klaus Reger)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improve PL/pgSQL error reporting, including location of error (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow IS or FOR key words in cursor declaration, for compatibility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for PERFORM returning multiple rows (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make PL/pgSQL use the server's type coercion code (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Memory leak fix (Jan, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Make trailing semicolon optional (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>PL/Perl</title>
-<literallayout>
-New untrusted PL/Perl (Alex Pilosov)
-PL/Perl is now built on some platforms even if libperl is not shared (Peter E)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>New untrusted PL/Perl (Alex Pilosov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>PL/Perl is now built on some platforms even if libperl is not shared (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
     </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>PL/Tcl</title>
-<literallayout>
-Now reports errorInfo (Vsevolod Lobko)
-Add spi_lastoid function (bob@redivi.com)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Now reports errorInfo (Vsevolod Lobko)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add spi_lastoid function (bob@redivi.com)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>PL/Python</title>
-<literallayout>
-...is new (Andrew Bosma)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>...is new (Andrew Bosma)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
-    <title>Psql</title>
-<literallayout>
-\d displays indexes in unique, primary groupings (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-Allow trailing semicolons in backslash commands (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-Read password from /dev/tty if possible
-Force new password prompt when changing user and database (Tatsuo, Tom)
-Format the correct number of columns for Unicode (Patrice)
-</literallayout>
+    <title><application>psql</></title>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>\d displays indexes in unique, primary groupings (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow trailing semicolons in backslash commands (Greg Sabino Mullane)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Read password from /dev/tty if possible</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Force new password prompt when changing user and database (Tatsuo, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Format the correct number of columns for Unicode (Patrice)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
-    <title>Libpq</title>
-<literallayout>
-New function PQescapeString() to escape quotes in command strings (Florian Weimer)
-New function PQescapeBytea() escapes binary strings for use as SQL string literals
-</literallayout>
+    <title><application>libpq</></title>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>New function PQescapeString() to escape quotes in command strings (Florian Weimer)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New function PQescapeBytea() escapes binary strings for use as SQL string literals</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>JDBC</title>
-<literallayout>
-Return OID of INSERT (Ken K)
-Handle more data types (Ken K)
-Handle single quotes and newlines in strings (Ken K)
-Handle NULL variables (Ken K)
-Fix for time zone handling (Barry Lind)
-Improved Druid support
-Allow eight-bit characters with non-multibyte server (Barry Lind)
-Support BIT, BINARY types (Ned Wolpert)
-Reduce memory usage (Michael Stephens, Dave Cramer)
-Update DatabaseMetaData (Peter E)
-Add DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() (Peter E)
-Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)
-Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)
-DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason Davies)
-DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() performance improvement (Jeroen van Vianen)
-Some JDBC1 and JDBC2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)
-Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)
-Array fixes (Greg Zoller)
-Serialize addition 
-Fix batch processing (Rene Pijlman)
-ExecSQL method reorganization (Anders Bengtsson)
-GetColumn() fixes (Jeroen van Vianen)
-Fix isWriteable() function (Rene Pijlman)
-Improved passage of JDBC2 conformance tests (Rene Pijlman)
-Add bytea type capability (Barry Lind)
-Add isNullable() (Rene Pijlman)
-JDBC date/time test suite fixes (Liam Stewart)
-Fix for SELECT 'id' AS xxx FROM table (Dave Cramer)
-Fix DatabaseMetaData to show precision properly (Mark Lillywhite)
-New getImported/getExported keys (Jason Davies)
-MD5 password encryption support (Jeremy Wohl)
-Fix to actually use type cache (Ned Wolpert)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Return OID of INSERT (Ken K)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Handle more data types (Ken K)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Handle single quotes and newlines in strings (Ken K)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Handle NULL variables (Ken K)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for time zone handling (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improved Druid support</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow eight-bit characters with non-multibyte server (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Support BIT, BINARY types (Ned Wolpert)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage (Michael Stephens, Dave Cramer)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Update DatabaseMetaData (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Encoding fixes (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Get/setCatalog methods (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() now returns column defaults (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() performance improvement (Jeroen van Vianen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Some JDBC1 and JDBC2 merging (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Transaction performance improvements (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Array fixes (Greg Zoller)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Serialize addition </para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix batch processing (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>ExecSQL method reorganization (Anders Bengtsson)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>GetColumn() fixes (Jeroen van Vianen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix isWriteable() function (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improved passage of JDBC2 conformance tests (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add bytea type capability (Barry Lind)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add isNullable() (Rene Pijlman)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>JDBC date/time test suite fixes (Liam Stewart)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for SELECT 'id' AS xxx FROM table (Dave Cramer)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix DatabaseMetaData to show precision properly (Mark Lillywhite)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New getImported/getExported keys (Jason Davies)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>MD5 password encryption support (Jeremy Wohl)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix to actually use type cache (Ned Wolpert)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>ODBC</title>
-<literallayout>
-Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)
-Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)
-Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)
-Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)
-Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)
-Most configuration options on setable via DSN (Hiroshi)
-Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)
-Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)
-MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)
-Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Most configuration options now settable via DSN (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
-    <title>ECPG</title>
-<literallayout>
-EXECUTE ... INTO implemented (Christof Petig)
-Multiple row descriptor support (e.g. CARDINALITY) (Christof Petig)
-Fix for GRANT parameters (Lee Kindness)
-Fix INITIALLY DEFERRED bug
-Various bug fixes (Michael, Christof Petig)
-Auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)
-Auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)
-ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed
-All function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG
-Fixes for arrays of structures (Michael)
-</literallayout>
+    <title><application>ECPG</></title>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>EXECUTE ... INTO implemented (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Multiple row descriptor support (e.g. CARDINALITY) (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for GRANT parameters (Lee Kindness)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix INITIALLY DEFERRED bug</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Various bug fixes (Michael, Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>All function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fixes for arrays of structures (Michael)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Misc. Interfaces</title>
-<literallayout>
-Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)
-Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko, Reinhard Max)
-Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)
-Prevent output of default index op class in pg_dump (Tom)
-Fix libpgeasy memory leak (Bruce)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Python fix fetchone() (Gerhard Haring)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Use UTF, Unicode in Tcl where appropriate (Vsevolod Lobko, Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add Tcl COPY TO/FROM (ljb)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent output of default index op class in <application>pg_dump</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix libpgeasy memory leak (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Build and Install</title>
-<literallayout>
-Configure, dynamic loader, and shared library fixes (Peter E)
-Fixes in QNX 4 port (Bernd Tegge)
-Fixes in Cygwin and Win32 ports (Jason Tishler, Gerhard Haring, Dmitry Yurtaev, Darko Prenosil, Mikhail Terekhov)
-Fix for Win32 socket communication failures (Magnus, Mikhail Terekhov)
-Hurd compile fix (Oliver Elphick)
-BeOS fixes (Cyril Velter)
-Remove configure --enable-unicode-conversion, now enabled by multibyte (Tatsuo)
-AIX fixes (Tatsuo, Andreas)
-Fix parallel make (Peter E)
-Install SQL language manual pages into OS-specific directories (Peter E)
-Rename config.h to pg_config.h (Peter E)
-Reorganize installation layout of header files (Peter E)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Configure, dynamic loader, and shared library fixes (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fixes in QNX 4 port (Bernd Tegge)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fixes in Cygwin and Windows ports (Jason Tishler, Gerhard Haring, Dmitry Yurtaev, Darko Prenosil, Mikhail Terekhov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix for Windows socket communication failures (Magnus, Mikhail Terekhov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Hurd compile fix (Oliver Elphick)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>BeOS fixes (Cyril Velter)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Remove configure --enable-unicode-conversion, now enabled by multibyte (Tatsuo)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>AIX fixes (Tatsuo, Andreas)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix parallel make (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Install SQL language manual pages into OS-specific directories (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Rename config.h to pg_config.h (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Reorganize installation layout of header files (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Source Code</title>
-<literallayout>
-Remove SEP_CHAR (Bruce)
-New GUC hooks (Tom)
-Merge GUC and command line handling (Marko Kreen)
-Remove EXTEND INDEX (Martijn van Oosterhout, Tom)
-New pgjindent utility to indent java code (Bruce)
-Remove define of true/false when compiling under C++ (Leandro Fanzone, Tom)
-pgindent fixes (Bruce, Tom)
-Replace strcasecmp() with strcmp() where appropriate (Peter E)
-Dynahash portability improvements (Tom)
-Add 'volatile' usage in spinlock structures
-Improve signal handling logic (Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Remove SEP_CHAR (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New GUC hooks (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Merge GUC and command line handling (Marko Kreen)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Remove EXTEND INDEX (Martijn van Oosterhout, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New pgjindent utility to indent java code (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Remove define of true/false when compiling under C++ (Leandro Fanzone, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>pgindent fixes (Bruce, Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Replace strcasecmp() with strcmp() where appropriate (Peter E)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Dynahash portability improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add 'volatile' usage in spinlock structures</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Improve signal handling logic (Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
 
    <sect3>
     <title>Contrib</title>
-<literallayout>
-New contrib/rtree_gist (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev)
-New contrib/tsearch full-text indexing (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)
-Add contrib/dblink for remote database access (Joe Conway)
-contrib/ora2pg Oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)
-contrib/xml XML conversion utility (John Gray)
-contrib/fulltextindex fixes (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
-New contrib/fuzzystrmatch with levenshtein and metaphone, soundex merged (Joe Conway)
-Add contrib/intarray boolean queries, binary search, fixes (Oleg Bartunov)
-New pg_upgrade utility (Bruce)
-Add new pg_resetxlog options (Bruce, Tom)
-</literallayout>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>New contrib/rtree_gist (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New contrib/tsearch full-text indexing (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add contrib/dblink for remote database access (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/ora2pg Oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/xml XML conversion utility (John Gray)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>contrib/fulltextindex fixes (Christopher Kings-Lynne)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New contrib/fuzzystrmatch with levenshtein and metaphone, soundex merged (Joe Conway)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add contrib/intarray boolean queries, binary search, fixes (Oleg Bartunov)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New pg_upgrade utility (Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add new pg_resetxlog options (Bruce, Tom)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
    </sect3>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
@@ -902,7 +933,7 @@ Cygwin build (Jason Tishler)
      <programlisting>
 Fix PL/pgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows
 Fix for psql backslash core dump
-Referential integrity permission fix
+Referential integrity privilege fix
 Optimizer fixes
 pg_dump cleanups 
      </programlisting>
@@ -947,7 +978,7 @@ AIX, MSWIN, VAX, N32K fixes (Tom)
 Multibytes fixes (Tom)
 Unicode fixes (Tatsuo)
 Optimizer improvements (Tom)
-Fix for whole tuples in functions (Tom)
+Fix for whole rows in functions (Tom)
 Fix for pg_ctl and option strings with spaces (Peter E)
 ODBC fixes (Hiroshi)
 EXTRACT can now take string argument (Thomas)
@@ -967,8 +998,8 @@ Python fixes (Darcy)
    </note>
 
    <para>
-	This release focuses on removing limitations that have existed in the
-	PostgreSQL code for many years.
+        This release focuses on removing limitations that have existed in the
+        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> code for many years.
    </para>
 
    <para>
@@ -977,27 +1008,27 @@ Python fixes (Darcy)
     <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-	Write-ahead Log (WAL)
+        Write-ahead Log (WAL)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-To maintain database consistency in case
-of an operating system crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL have
-forced all data modifications to disk before each transaction commit. 
-With WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
-performance.  If you have been using -F in previous releases to disable
-disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its use.
+To maintain database consistency in case of an operating system crash,
+previous releases of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> have forced
+all data modifications to disk before each transaction commit.  With
+WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
+performance.  If you have been using -F in previous releases to
+disable disk flushes, you may want to consider discontinuing its use.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-	TOAST
+        TOAST
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
+        TOAST - Previous releases had a compiled-in row length limit,
 typically 8k - 32k. This limit made storage of long text fields
 difficult.  With TOAST, long rows of any length can be stored with good
 performance.
@@ -1007,7 +1038,7 @@ performance.
 
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-	Outer Joins
+        Outer Joins
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
@@ -1020,12 +1051,12 @@ outer join syntax.
 
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-	Function Manager
+        Function Manager
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
 The previous C function manager did not
-handle NULLs properly, nor did it support 64-bit <acronym>CPU</acronym>'s (Alpha).  The new
+handle null values properly, nor did it support 64-bit <acronym>CPU</acronym>'s (Alpha).  The new
 function manager does.  You can continue using your old custom
 functions, but you may want to rewrite them in the future to use the new
 function manager call interface.
@@ -1035,7 +1066,7 @@ function manager call interface.
 
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-	Complex Queries
+        Complex Queries
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
@@ -1055,8 +1086,8 @@ Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
     <title>Migration to version 7.1</title>
 
     <para>
-	A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
-	data from any previous release.
+        A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
+        data from any previous release.
     </para>
    </sect2>
 
@@ -1067,7 +1098,7 @@ Subqueries in FROM are now supported.
      <programlisting>
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
-Many multi-byte/Unicode/locale fixes (Tatsuo and others)
+Many multibyte/Unicode/locale fixes (Tatsuo and others)
 More reliable ALTER TABLE RENAME (Tom)
 Kerberos V fixes (David Wragg)
 Fix for INSERT INTO...SELECT where targetlist has subqueries (Tom)
@@ -1098,7 +1129,7 @@ Modify pg_dump to better handle user-defined items in template1 (Philip)
 Allow LIMIT in VIEW (Tom)
 Require cursor FETCH to honor LIMIT (Tom)
 Allow PRIMARY/FOREIGN Key definitions on inherited columns (Stephan)
-Allow ORDER BY, LIMIT in sub-selects (Tom)
+Allow ORDER BY, LIMIT in subqueries (Tom)
 Allow UNION in CREATE RULE (Tom)
 Make ALTER/DROP TABLE rollback-able (Vadim, Tom)
 Store initdb collation in pg_control so collation cannot be changed (Tom)
@@ -1131,7 +1162,7 @@ Improved handling of file descriptor cache (Tom)
 New warning code about auto-created table alias entries (Bruce)
 Overhaul initdb process (Tom, Peter E)
 Overhaul of inherited tables; inherited tables now accessed by default;
-   new ONLY keyword prevents it (Chris Bitmead, Tom)
+   new ONLY key word prevents it (Chris Bitmead, Tom)
 ODBC cleanups/improvements (Nick Gorham, Stephan Szabo, Zoltan Kovacs, 
     Michael Fork)
 Allow renaming of temp tables (Tom)
@@ -1139,7 +1170,7 @@ Overhaul memory manager contexts (Tom)
 pg_dumpall uses CREATE USER or CREATE GROUP rather using COPY (Peter E)
 Overhaul pg_dump (Philip Warner)
 Allow pg_hba.conf secondary password file to specify only username (Peter E)
-Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP keyword when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
+Allow TEMPORARY or TEMP key word when creating temporary tables (Bruce)
 New memory leak checker (Karel)
 New SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS (Thomas)
 Allow nested block comments (Thomas)
@@ -1290,7 +1321,7 @@ Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
 Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
 Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
 Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
-Fix for psql \l+ when multi-byte enabled (Tatsuo)
+Fix for psql \l+ when multibyte enabled (Tatsuo)
 Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
 Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
 Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
@@ -1312,8 +1343,8 @@ Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
 Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
 Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
 Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
-Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and
-    destination of a tuple lie on the same page (Tom)
+Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update row versions when source
+    and destination of a row version lie on the same page (Tom)
 Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
 Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
 Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
@@ -1390,7 +1421,7 @@ Added documentation to tarball.
      <programlisting>
 Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
 Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
-Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
+Fix plpgsql to handle datetime-&gt;timestamp and timespan-&gt;interval (Bruce)
 New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
 Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
 jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
@@ -1444,9 +1475,9 @@ ecpg changes (Michael)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	Foreign keys are now implemented, with the exception of PARTIAL MATCH
-	foreign keys. Many users have been asking for this feature, and we are
-	pleased to offer it.
+        Foreign keys are now implemented, with the exception of PARTIAL MATCH
+        foreign keys. Many users have been asking for this feature, and we are
+        pleased to offer it.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -1457,9 +1488,9 @@ ecpg changes (Michael)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	Continuing on work started a year ago, the optimizer has been
-	improved, allowing better query plan selection and faster performance
-	with less memory usage.
+        Continuing on work started a year ago, the optimizer has been
+        improved, allowing better query plan selection and faster performance
+        with less memory usage.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -1470,8 +1501,8 @@ ecpg changes (Michael)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	<application>psql</application>, our interactive terminal monitor, has been
-	updated with a variety of new features. See the <application>psql</application> manual page for details.
+        <application>psql</application>, our interactive terminal monitor, has been
+        updated with a variety of new features. See the <application>psql</application> manual page for details.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -1482,26 +1513,14 @@ ecpg changes (Michael)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	SQL92 join syntax is now supported, though only as INNER JOINs 
-	for this release. JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, JOIN/USING, JOIN/ON are
-	available, as are column correlation names.
+        SQL92 join syntax is now supported, though only as
+        <literal>INNER JOIN</> for this release. <literal>JOIN</>,
+        <literal>NATURAL JOIN</>, <literal>JOIN</>/<literal>USING</>,
+        and <literal>JOIN</>/<literal>ON</> are available, as are
+        column correlation names.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-
-<!--
-     <varlistentry>
-      <term>
-       Upcoming Features
-      </term>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-	In 7.1 or 7.2, we plan to have outer joins, storage for very long rows, and a
-	write-ahead logging system.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </varlistentry>
--->
     </variablelist>
    </para>
 
@@ -1525,45 +1544,45 @@ ecpg changes (Michael)
      <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	The date/time types <type>datetime</type> and
-	<type>timespan</type> have been superseded by the
-	SQL92-defined types <type>timestamp</type> and
-	<type>interval</type>. Although there has been some effort to
-	ease the transition by allowing
-	<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to recognize
-	the deprecated type names and translate them to the new type
-	names, this mechanism may not be completely transparent to
-	your existing application.
+        The date/time types <type>datetime</type> and
+        <type>timespan</type> have been superseded by the
+        SQL92-defined types <type>timestamp</type> and
+        <type>interval</type>. Although there has been some effort to
+        ease the transition by allowing
+        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to recognize
+        the deprecated type names and translate them to the new type
+        names, this mechanism may not be completely transparent to
+        your existing application.
        </para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	The optimizer has been substantially improved in the area of
-	query cost estimation. In some cases, this will result in
-	decreased query times as the optimizer makes a better choice
-	for the preferred plan. However, in a small number of cases,
-	usually involving pathological distributions of data, your
-	query times may go up. If you are dealing with large amounts
-	of data, you may want to check your queries to verify
-	performance.
+        The optimizer has been substantially improved in the area of
+        query cost estimation. In some cases, this will result in
+        decreased query times as the optimizer makes a better choice
+        for the preferred plan. However, in a small number of cases,
+        usually involving pathological distributions of data, your
+        query times may go up. If you are dealing with large amounts
+        of data, you may want to check your queries to verify
+        performance.
        </para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	The <acronym>JDBC</acronym> and <acronym>ODBC</acronym>
-	interfaces have been upgraded and extended.
+        The <acronym>JDBC</acronym> and <acronym>ODBC</acronym>
+        interfaces have been upgraded and extended.
        </para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	The string function <function>CHAR_LENGTH</function> is now a
-	native function. Previous versions translated this into a call
-	to <function>LENGTH</function>, which could result in
-	ambiguity with other types implementing
-	<function>LENGTH</function> such as the geometric types.
+        The string function <function>CHAR_LENGTH</function> is now a
+        native function. Previous versions translated this into a call
+        to <function>LENGTH</function>, which could result in
+        ambiguity with other types implementing
+        <function>LENGTH</function> such as the geometric types.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
@@ -1626,12 +1645,12 @@ Fix for SELECT null::text, SELECT int4fac(null) and SELECT 2 + (null) (Tom)
 Y2K timestamp fix (Massimo)
 Fix for VACUUM 'HEAP_MOVED_IN was not expected' errors (Tom)
 Fix for views with tables/columns containing spaces  (Tom)
-Prevent permissions on indexes (Peter E)
+Prevent privileges on indexes (Peter E)
 Fix for spinlock stuck problem when error is generated (Hiroshi)
 Fix ipcclean on Linux
 Fix handling of NULL constraint conditions (Tom)
 Fix memory leak in odbc driver (Nick Gorham)
-Fix for permission check on UNION tables (Tom)
+Fix for privilege check on UNION tables (Tom)
 Fix to allow SELECT 'a' LIKE 'a' (Tom)
 Fix for SELECT 1 + NULL (Tom)
 Fixes to CHAR
@@ -1650,7 +1669,7 @@ 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 btree to give a useful elog when key &gt; 1/2 (page - overhead) (Tom)
 Fix INSERT of 0.0 into DECIMAL(4,4) field (Tom)
 
 Enhancements
@@ -1689,7 +1708,7 @@ Change backend-side COPY to write files with permissions 644 not 666 (Tom)
 Force permissions on PGDATA directory to be secure, even if it exists (Tom)
 Added psql LASTOID variable to return last inserted oid (Peter E)
 Allow concurrent vacuum and remove pg_vlock vacuum lock file (Tom)
-Add permissions check for vacuum (Peter E)
+Add privilege check for vacuum (Peter E)
 New libpq functions to allow asynchronous connections: PQconnectStart(), 
    PQconnectPoll(), PQresetStart(), PQresetPoll(), PQsetenvStart(), 
    PQsetenvPoll(), PQsetenvAbort (Ewan Mellor)
@@ -1710,7 +1729,7 @@ All administration scripts now support --long options (Peter E, Karel)
 Vacuumdb script now supports --all option (Peter E)
 ecpg new portable FETCH syntax
 Add ecpg EXEC SQL IFDEF, EXEC SQL IFNDEF, EXEC SQL ELSE, EXEC SQL ELIF 
-	and EXEC SQL ENDIF directives
+        and EXEC SQL ENDIF directives
 Add pg_ctl script to control backend start-up (Tatsuo)
 Add postmaster.opts.default file to store start-up flags (Tatsuo)
 Allow --with-mb=SQL_ASCII
@@ -1725,14 +1744,14 @@ Add option for initdb to prompts for superuser password (Peter E)
 Allow complex type casts like col::numeric(9,2) and col::int2::float8 (Tom)
 Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E)
 New pg_char_to_encoding() and pg_encoding_to_char() functions (Tatsuo)
-Libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
+libpq non-blocking mode (Alfred Perlstein)
 Improve conversion of types in casts that don't specify a length
 New plperl internal programming language (Mark Hollomon)
 Allow COPY IN to read file that do not end with a newline (Tom)
 Indicate when long identifiers are truncated (Tom)
 Allow aggregates to use type equivalency (Peter E)
 Add Oracle's to_char(), to_date(), to_datetime(), to_timestamp(), to_number()
-	conversion functions (Karel Zak &lt;zakkr@zf.jcu.cz&gt;)
+        conversion functions (Karel Zak &lt;zakkr@zf.jcu.cz&gt;)
 Add SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ... (Tom)
 Check to be sure ORDER BY is compatible with the DISTINCT operation (Tom)
 Add NUMERIC and int8 types to ODBC
@@ -1744,7 +1763,7 @@ Add btree indexing of boolean values, &gt;= and &lt;= (Don Baccus)
 Print current line number when COPY FROM fails (Massimo)
 Recognize POSIX time zone e.g. "PST+8" and "GMT-8" (Thomas)
 Add DEC as synonym for DECIMAL (Thomas)
-Add SESSION_USER as SQL92 keyword, same as CURRENT_USER (Thomas)
+Add SESSION_USER as SQL92 key word, same as CURRENT_USER (Thomas)
 Implement SQL92 column aliases (aka correlation names) (Thomas)
 Implement SQL92 join syntax (Thomas)
 Make INTERVAL reserved word allowed as a column identifier (Thomas)
@@ -1859,7 +1878,7 @@ Fewer fsync writes when fsync is not disabled (Tom)
 Improved LIKE optimizer estimates (Tom)
 Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries (Vadim)
 Make index creation use psort code, because it is now faster (Tom)
-Allow creation of sort temp tables > 1 Gig
+Allow creation of sort temp tables &gt; 1 Gig
 
 Source Tree Changes
 -------------------
@@ -1871,7 +1890,7 @@ Clean up #include in /include directory (Bruce)
 Add scripts for checking includes (Bruce)
 Remove un-needed #include's from *.c files (Bruce)
 Change #include's to use &lt;&gt; and "" as appropriate (Bruce)
-Enable WIN32 compilation of libpq
+Enable Windows compilation of libpq
 Alpha spinlock fix from Uncle George <email>gatgul@voicenet.com</email>
 Overhaul of optimizer data structures (Tom)
 Fix to cygipc library (Yutaka Tanida)
@@ -1884,7 +1903,7 @@ New platform-specific regression handling (Tom)
 Rename oid8 -&gt; oidvector and int28 -&gt; int2vector (Bruce)
 Included all yacc and lex files into the distribution (Peter E.)
 Remove lextest, no longer needed (Peter E)
-Fix for libpq and psql on Win32 (Magnus)
+Fix for libpq and psql on Windows (Magnus)
 Internally change datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval (Thomas)
 Fix for plpgsql on BSD/OS
 Add SQL_ASCII test case to the regression test (Tatsuo)
@@ -1967,8 +1986,8 @@ Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
 Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
 Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
 Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indexes(Thomas)
-Improve it so that it checks for multi-column constraints(Thomas)
-Fix for Win32 making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
+Improve it so that it checks for multicolumn constraints(Thomas)
+Fix for Windows making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
 Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
 Fix SET NAMES working
 int8 fixes(Thomas)
@@ -2022,13 +2041,13 @@ Add NT README file
 Portability fixes for linux_ppc, IRIX, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
 Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
 Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)
-Patch to allow vacuum on multi-segment tables(Hiroshi)
+Patch to allow vacuum on multisegment tables(Hiroshi)
 R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)
 ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)
 New expresssion subtree code(Tom)
 Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)
 Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)
-Fix to prevent too large tuple from being created(Bruce)
+Fix to prevent too large row from being created(Bruce)
 plpgsql fixes
 Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)
 Add ^ precidence(Bruce)
@@ -2067,21 +2086,22 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
     <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
       <term>
-       Multi-version concurrency control(MVCC)
+       Multiversion concurrency control(MVCC)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	This removes our old
-	table-level locking, and replaces it with a locking system that is
-	superior to most commercial database systems.  In a traditional system,
-	each row that is modified is locked until committed, preventing reads by
-	other users.  MVCC uses the natural multi-version nature of PostgreSQL
-	to allow readers to continue reading consistent data during writer
-	activity.  Writers continue to use the compact pg_log transaction
-	system.  This is all performed without having to allocate a lock for
-	every row like traditional database systems.  So, basically, we no
-	longer are restricted by simple table-level locking;
-	we have something better than row-level locking.
+        This removes our old table-level locking, and replaces it with
+        a locking system that is superior to most commercial database
+        systems.  In a traditional system, each row that is modified
+        is locked until committed, preventing reads by other users.
+        MVCC uses the natural multiversion nature of
+        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to allow readers to
+        continue reading consistent data during writer activity.
+        Writers continue to use the compact pg_log transaction system.
+        This is all performed without having to allocate a lock for
+        every row like traditional database systems.  So, basically,
+        we no longer are restricted by simple table-level locking; we
+        have something better than row-level locking.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2092,9 +2112,9 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	<application>pg_dump</application> takes advantage of the new
-	MVCC features to give a consistent database dump/backup while
-	the database stays online and available for queries.
+        <application>pg_dump</application> takes advantage of the new
+        MVCC features to give a consistent database dump/backup while
+        the database stays online and available for queries.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2105,8 +2125,8 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	We now have a true numeric data type, with
-	user-specified precision.
+        We now have a true numeric data type, with
+        user-specified precision.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2117,8 +2137,8 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	Temporary tables are guaranteed to have unique names
-	within a database session, and are destroyed on session exit.
+        Temporary tables are guaranteed to have unique names
+        within a database session, and are destroyed on session exit.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2129,9 +2149,9 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement
-	support.  We have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL,
-	SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
+        We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement
+        support.  We have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL,
+        SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2142,9 +2162,10 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	We continue to speed up PostgreSQL, thanks to the variety of
-	talents within our team.  We have sped up memory allocation,
-	optimization, table joins, and row transfer routines.
+        We continue to speed up <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>,
+        thanks to the variety of talents within our team.  We have
+        sped up memory allocation, optimization, table joins, and row
+        transfer routines.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2155,8 +2176,8 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	We continue to expand our port list, this time including
-	<systemitem class="osname">Windows NT</>/<systemitem>ix86</> and <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>/<systemitem>arm32</>.
+        We continue to expand our port list, this time including
+        <systemitem class="osname">Windows NT</>/<systemitem>ix86</> and <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>/<systemitem>arm32</>.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2167,8 +2188,8 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	Most interfaces have new versions, and existing functionality
-	has been improved.
+        Most interfaces have new versions, and existing functionality
+        has been improved.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2179,22 +2200,22 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-	New and updated material is present throughout the
-	documentation. New <acronym>FAQ</acronym>s have been
-	contributed for <systemitem class="osname">SGI</> and <systemitem class="osname">AIX</> platforms.
-	The <citetitle>Tutorial</citetitle> has introductory information
-	on <acronym>SQL</acronym> from Stefan Simkovics.
-	For the <citetitle>User's Guide</citetitle>, there are
-	reference pages covering the postmaster and more utility
-	programs, and a new appendix
-	contains details on date/time behavior.
-	The <citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle> has a new
-	chapter on troubleshooting from Tom Lane.
-	And the <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle> has a
-	description of query processing, also from Stefan, and details 
-	on obtaining the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source
-	tree via anonymous <productname>CVS</productname> and
-	<productname>CVSup</productname>. 
+        New and updated material is present throughout the
+        documentation. New <acronym>FAQ</acronym>s have been
+        contributed for <systemitem class="osname">SGI</> and <systemitem class="osname">AIX</> platforms.
+        The <citetitle>Tutorial</citetitle> has introductory information
+        on <acronym>SQL</acronym> from Stefan Simkovics.
+        For the <citetitle>User's Guide</citetitle>, there are
+        reference pages covering the postmaster and more utility
+        programs, and a new appendix
+        contains details on date/time behavior.
+        The <citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle> has a new
+        chapter on troubleshooting from Tom Lane.
+        And the <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle> has a
+        description of query processing, also from Stefan, and details 
+        on obtaining the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source
+        tree via anonymous <productname>CVS</productname> and
+        <productname>CVSup</productname>. 
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -2214,15 +2235,15 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
     </para>
 
     <para>
-     The new Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) features can
-     give somewhat different behaviors in multi-user
+     The new Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) features can
+     give somewhat different behaviors in multiuser
      environments. <emphasis>Read and understand the following section 
       to ensure that your existing applications will give you the
       behavior you need.</emphasis>
     </para>
 
     <sect3>
-     <title>Multi-Version Concurrency Control</title>
+     <title>Multiversion Concurrency Control</title>
 
      <para>
       Because readers in 6.5 don't lock data, regardless of transaction
@@ -2254,11 +2275,11 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
 
       <note>
        <para>
-	Note that if you run a transaction in SERIALIZABLE mode then you must
-	execute the <command>LOCK</command> commands above before execution of any
-	<acronym>DML</acronym> statement
-	(<command>SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/FETCH/COPY_TO</command>) in the
-	transaction.
+        Note that if you run a transaction in SERIALIZABLE mode then you must
+        execute the <command>LOCK</command> commands above before execution of any
+        <acronym>DML</acronym> statement
+        (<command>SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/FETCH/COPY_TO</command>) in the
+        transaction.
        </para>
       </note>
      </para>
@@ -2279,7 +2300,7 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
      <programlisting>
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
-Fix text<->float8 and text<->float4 conversion functions(Thomas)
+Fix text&lt;-&gt;float8 and text&lt;-&gt;float4 conversion functions(Thomas)
 Fix for creating tables with mixed-case constraints(Billy)
 Change exp()/pow() behavior to generate error on underflow/overflow(Jan)
 Fix bug in pg_dump -z
@@ -2312,11 +2333,11 @@ Allow sequence nextval actions to be case-sensitive(Bruce)
 Fix optimizer indexing not working for negative numbers(Bruce)
 Fix for memory leak in executor with fjIsNull
 Fix for aggregate memory leaks(Erik Riedel)
-Allow username containing a dash GRANT permissions
+Allow user name containing a dash to grant privileges
 Cleanup of NULL in inet types
 Clean up system table bugs(Tom)
 Fix problems of PAGER and \? command(Masaaki Sakaida)
-Reduce default multi-segment file size limit to 1GB(Peter)
+Reduce default multisegment file size limit to 1GB(Peter)
 Fix for dumping of CREATE OPERATOR(Tom)
 Fix for backward scanning of cursors(Hiroshi Inoue)
 Fix for COPY FROM STDIN when using \i(Tom)
@@ -2328,9 +2349,9 @@ Fix pg_dump so -t option can handle case-sensitive tablenames
 Fixes for GROUP BY in special cases(Tom, Jan)
 Fix for memory leak in failed queries(Tom)
 DEFAULT now supports mixed-case identifiers(Tom)
-Fix for multi-segment uses of DROP/RENAME table, indexes(Ole Gjerde)
+Fix for multisegment uses of DROP/RENAME table, indexes(Ole Gjerde)
 Disable use of pg_dump with both -o and -d options(Bruce)
-Allow pg_dump to properly dump GROUP permissions(Bruce)
+Allow pg_dump to properly dump group privileges(Bruce)
 Fix GROUP BY in INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM table2(Jan)
 Fix for computations in views(Jan)
 Fix for aggregates on array indexes(Tom)
@@ -2353,7 +2374,7 @@ Update to pgaccess 0.96(Constantin)
 Add routines for single-byte "char" type(Thomas)
 Improved substr() function(Thomas)
 Improved multibyte handling(Tatsuo)
-Multi-version concurrency control/MVCC(Vadim)
+Multiversion concurrency control/MVCC(Vadim)
 New Serialized mode(Vadim)
 Fix for tables over 2gigs(Peter)
 New SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL(Vadim)
@@ -2426,13 +2447,13 @@ Source Tree Changes
 -------------------
 Improve port matching(Tom)
 Portability fixes for SunOS
-Add NT/Win32 backend port and enable dynamic loading(Magnus and Daniel Horak)
+Add Windows NT backend port and enable dynamic loading(Magnus and Daniel Horak)
 New port to Cobalt Qube(Mips) running Linux(Tatsuo)
 Port to NetBSD/m68k(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
 Port to NetBSD/sun3(Mr. Mutsuki Nakajima)
 Port to NetBSD/macppc(Toshimi Aoki)
 Fix for tcl/tk configuration(Vince)
-Removed CURRENT keyword for rule queries(Jan)
+Removed CURRENT key word for rule queries(Jan)
 NT dynamic loading now works(Daniel Horak)
 Add ARM32 support(Andrew McMurry)
 Better support for HP-UX 11 and UnixWare
@@ -2507,12 +2528,12 @@ A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those running
 <para>
 <programlisting>
 Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers.  This is
-	the default(Thomas)
+        the default(Thomas)
 Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce)
 EXPLAIN VERBOSE coredump fix(Vadim)
 Fix shared-library problems on Linux
-Fix test for table existance to allow mixed-case and whitespace in
-	the table name(Thomas)
+Fix test for table existence to allow mixed-case and whitespace in
+        the table name(Thomas)
 Fix a couple of pg_dump bugs
 Configure matches template/.similar entries better(Tom)
 Change builtin function names from SPI_* to spi_*
@@ -2534,7 +2555,7 @@ Timezone fixes(Tom)
 HP-UX fixes(Tom)
 Use implicit type coercion for matching DEFAULT values(Thomas)
 Add routines to help with single-byte (internal) character type(Thomas)
-Compilation of libpq for Win32 fixes(Magnus)
+Compilation of libpq for Windows fixes(Magnus)
 Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy)
 </programlisting>
 </para>
@@ -2574,7 +2595,7 @@ original <application>PL/pgTCL</application> procedural language he contributed
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-We have optional multiple-byte character set support from Tatsuo Iishi
+We have optional multiple-byte character set support from Tatsuo Ishii
 to complement our existing locale support.
 </para>
 </listitem>
@@ -2675,10 +2696,10 @@ New configure --with-mb option(Tatsuo)
 New initdb --pgencoding option(Tatsuo)
 New createdb -E multibyte option(Tatsuo)
 Select version(); now returns PostgreSQL version(Jeroen)
-Libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
+libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
 Allow cancel from client of backend query(Tom)
-Psql now cancels query with Control-C(Tom)
-Libpq users need not issue dummy queries to get NOTIFY messages(Tom)
+psql now cancels query with Control-C(Tom)
+libpq users need not issue dummy queries to get NOTIFY messages(Tom)
 NOTIFY now sends sender's PID, so you can tell whether it was your own(Tom)
 PGresult struct now includes associated error message, if any(Tom)
 Define "tz_hour" and "tz_minute" arguments to date_part()(Thomas)
@@ -2718,8 +2739,8 @@ Fix for pg_dump so CONSTRAINT and CHECK syntax is correct(ccb)
 New contrib/lo code for large object orphan removal(Peter)
 New psql command "SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'encoding'" for multibytes
 feature, see /doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
-/contrib/noupdate code to revoke update permission on a column
-Libpq can now be compiled on win32(Magnus)
+contrib/noupdate code to revoke update permission on a column
+libpq can now be compiled on Windows(Magnus)
 Add PQsetdbLogin() in libpq
 New 8-byte integer type, checked by configure for OS support(Thomas)
 Better support for quoted table/column names(Thomas)
@@ -2755,23 +2776,23 @@ Indexes for restriction clauses containing a constant(Thomas)
 New ISBN/ISSN code in /contrib/isbn_issn
 Allow NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, BETWEEN, and NOT BETWEEN constraint(Thomas)
 New rewrite system fixes many problems with rules and views(Jan)
-	* Rules on relations work
-	* Event qualifications on insert/update/delete work
-	* New OLD variable to reference CURRENT, CURRENT will be remove in future
-	* Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in rule qualifications/actions
-	* Insert/update/delete rules on views work
-	* Multiple rule actions are now supported, surrounded by parentheses
-	* Regular users can create views/rules on tables they have RULE permits
-	* Rules and views inherit the permissions on the creator
-	* No rules at the column level
-	* No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
-	* New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
-	* Only a single action on SELECT rules
-	* Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
-	* handle subselects
-	* handle aggregates on views
-	* handle insert into select from view works
-System indexes are now multi-key(Bruce)
+        * Rules on relations work
+        * Event qualifications on insert/update/delete work
+        * New OLD variable to reference CURRENT, CURRENT will be remove in future
+        * Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in rule qualifications/actions
+        * Insert/update/delete rules on views work
+        * Multiple rule actions are now supported, surrounded by parentheses
+        * Regular users can create views/rules on tables they have RULE permits
+        * Rules and views inherit the privileges of the creator
+        * No rules at the column level
+        * No UPDATE NEW/OLD rules
+        * New pg_tables, pg_indexes, pg_rules and pg_views system views
+        * Only a single action on SELECT rules
+        * Total rewrite overhaul, perhaps for 6.5
+        * handle subselects
+        * handle aggregates on views
+        * handle insert into select from view works
+System indexes are now multikey(Bruce)
 Oidint2, oidint4, and oidname types are removed(Bruce)
 Use system cache for more system table lookups(Bruce)
 New backend programming language PL/pgSQL in backend/pl(Jan)
@@ -2782,7 +2803,7 @@ New setval() command to set sequence value(Massimo)
 Auto-remove unix socket file on start-up if no postmaster running(Massimo)
 Conditional trace package(Massimo)
 New UNLISTEN command(Massimo)
-Psql and libpq now compile under win32 using win32.mak(Magnus)
+psql and libpq now compile under Windows using win32.mak(Magnus)
 Lo_read no longer stores trailing NULL(Bruce)
 Identifiers are now truncated to 31 characters internally(Bruce)
 Createuser options now availble on the command line
@@ -2795,7 +2816,7 @@ New INSERT INTO TABLE DEFAULT VALUES statement available(Thomas)
 New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
 libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
 Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
-Remove ARCHIVE keyword, that is no longer used(Thomas)
+Remove ARCHIVE key word, that is no longer used(Thomas)
 pg_dump -n flag to supress quotes around indentifiers
 disable system columns for views(Jan)
 new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
@@ -2983,7 +3004,7 @@ Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
 Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
 Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
 Sunos4 cleanup
-Allow optional TABLE keyword in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
+Allow optional TABLE key word in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
 CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
 Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
 Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
@@ -3033,7 +3054,7 @@ Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
 
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       Better password authorization mechanisms. Default table permissions have changed.
+       Better password authorization mechanisms. Default table privileges have changed.
       </para>
      </listitem>
 
@@ -3093,9 +3114,9 @@ Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
     application without changes.
    </para>
    <para>
-    User-created tables now no longer have SELECT permission to PUBLIC by
+    User-created tables now no longer have SELECT privilege to PUBLIC by
     default.  This was done because the ANSI standard requires it.  You can
-    of course GRANT any permissions you want after the table is created. 
+    of course GRANT any privileges you want after the table is created. 
     System tables continue to be SELECT-able by PUBLIC.
    </para>
    <para>
@@ -3112,7 +3133,7 @@ Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
     For performance reasons, time travel is gone, but can be implemented
     using triggers (see <filename>pgsql/contrib/spi/README</filename>).  Please check out the new
     \d command for types, operators, etc.  Also, views have their own
-    permissions now, not based on the underlying tables, so permissions on
+    privileges now, not based on the underlying tables, so privileges on
     them have to be set separately.  Check <filename>/pgsql/interfaces</filename> for some new
     ways to talk to <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
    </para>
@@ -3158,31 +3179,31 @@ Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3)(Bruce)
 Fix cluster(Bruce)
 Fix for PQtrace start/stop several times(Bruce)
 Fix a variety of locking problems like newer lock waiters getting
-	lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share
-	locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not
-	getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce)
+        lock before older waiters, and having readlock people not share
+        locks if a writer is waiting for a lock, and waiting writers not
+        getting priority over waiting readers(Bruce)
 Fix crashes in psql when executing queries from external files(James)
 Fix problem with multiple order by columns, with the first one having
-	NULL values(Jeroen)
+        NULL values(Jeroen)
 Use correct hash table support functions for float8 and int4(Thomas)
 Re-enable JOIN= option in CREATE OPERATOR statement (Thomas)
 Change precedence for boolean operators to match expected behavior(Thomas)
 Generate elog(ERROR) on over-large integer(Bruce)
 Allow multiple-argument functions in constraint clauses(Thomas)
 Check boolean input literals for 'true','false','yes','no','1','0'
-	and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas)
+        and throw elog(ERROR) if unrecognized(Thomas)
 Major large objects fix
 Fix for GROUP BY showing duplicates(Vadim)
 Fix for index scans in MergeJion(Vadim)
 
 Enhancements
 ------------
-Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY keywords (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas)
+Subselects with EXISTS, IN, ALL, ANY key words (Vadim, Bruce, Thomas)
 New User Manual(Thomas, others)
 Speedup by inlining some frequently-called functions
 Real deadlock detection, no more timeouts(Bruce)
 Add SQL92 "constants" CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 
-	CURRENT_USER(Thomas)
+        CURRENT_USER(Thomas)
 Modify constraint syntax to be SQL92-compliant(Thomas)
 Implement SQL92 PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE clauses using indexes(Thomas)
 Recognize SQL92 syntax for FOREIGN KEY. Throw elog notice(Thomas)
@@ -3194,11 +3215,11 @@ Allow shorter strings for boolean literals (e.g. "t", "tr", "tru")(Thomas)
 Allow SQL92 delimited identifiers(Thomas)
 Implement SQL92 binary and hexadecimal string decoding (b'10' and x'1F')(Thomas)
 Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings
-	(e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
+        (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
 Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
 Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
 Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
-	this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim)
+        this query is done, was turned off in &lt;= 6.2.1(Vadim)
 New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
 New <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
 Rename pg_dump -H option to -h(Bruce)
@@ -3216,10 +3237,10 @@ Implement SET keyword = DEFAULT and SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT(Thomas)
 Enable SET TIME ZONE using TZ environment variable(Thomas)
 Add PGDATESTYLE environment variable to frontend and backend initialization(Thomas)
 Add PGTZ, PGCOSTHEAP, PGCOSTINDEX, PGRPLANS, PGGEQO
-	frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas)
+        frontend library initialization environment variables(Thomas)
 Regression tests time zone automatically set with "setenv PGTZ PST8PDT"(Thomas)
 Add pg_description table for info on tables, columns, operators, types, and
-	aggregates(Bruce)
+        aggregates(Bruce)
 Increase 16 char limit on system table/index names to 32 characters(Bruce)
 Rename system indexes(Bruce)
 Add 'GERMAN' option to SET DATESTYLE(Thomas)
@@ -3230,8 +3251,8 @@ Implement day of year as possible input to date_part()(Thomas)
 Define timespan_finite() and text_timespan() functions(Thomas)
 Remove archive stuff(Bruce)
 Allow for a pg_password authentication database that is separate from
-	the system password file(Todd)
-Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE permissions(Matt)
+        the system password file(Todd)
+Dump ACLs, GRANT, REVOKE privileges(Matt)
 Define text, varchar, and bpchar string length functions(Thomas)
 Fix Query handling for inheritance, and cost computations(Bruce)
 Implement CREATE TABLE/AS SELECT (alternative to SELECT/INTO)(Thomas)
@@ -3261,10 +3282,10 @@ Reduce system column overhead(Vadmin)
 Remove pg_time table(Vadim)
 Add pg_type attribute to identify types that need length (bpchar, varchar)
 Add report of offending line when COPY command fails
-Allow VIEW permissions to be set separately from the underlying tables. 
-	For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan)
+Allow VIEW privileges to be set separately from the underlying tables. 
+        For security, use GRANT/REVOKE on views as appropriate(Jan)
 Tables now have no default GRANT SELECT TO PUBLIC.  You must
-	explicitly grant such permissions.
+        explicitly grant such privileges.
 Clean up tutorial examples(Darren)
 
 Source Tree Changes
@@ -3277,7 +3298,7 @@ Make configure more automated(Brook)
 Add script to check regression test results
 Break parser functions into smaller files, group together(Bruce)
 Rename heap_create to heap_create_and_catalog, rename heap_creatr
-	to heap_create()(Bruce)
+        to heap_create()(Bruce)
 Sparc/Linux patch for locking(TomS)
 Remove PORTNAME and reorganize port-specific stuff(Marc)
 Add optimizer README file(Bruce)
@@ -3286,7 +3307,7 @@ Fix for NetBSD locking(Henry)
 Fix for libptcl make(Tatsuo)
 AIX patch(Darren)
 Change IS TRUE, IS FALSE, ... to expressions using "=" rather than
-	function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas)
+        function calls to istrue() or isfalse() to allow optimization(Thomas)
 Various fixes NetBSD/Sparc related(TomH)
 Alpha linux locking(Travis,Ryan)
 Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR)(Bruce)
@@ -3295,7 +3316,7 @@ Bring in the PostODBC source tree as part of our standard distribution(Marc)
 A minor patch for HP/UX 10 vs 9(Stan)
 New pg_attribute.atttypmod for type-specific info like varchar length(Bruce)
 UnixWare patches(Billy)
-New i386 'lock' for spin lock asm(Billy)
+New i386 'lock' for spinlock asm(Billy)
 Support for multiplexed backends is removed
 Start an OpenBSD port
 Start an AUX port
@@ -3434,24 +3455,24 @@ Bug Fixes
 ---------
 Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce)
 Fix compile errors on overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes
-	 from Solaris(Diab Jerius)
+         from Solaris(Diab Jerius)
 Fix bugs in geometric line arithmetic (bad intersection calculations)(Thomas)
 Check for geometric intersections at endpoints to avoid rounding ugliness(Thomas)
 Catch non-functional delete attempts(Vadim)
 Change time function names to be more consistent(Michael Reifenberg)
 Check for zero divides(Michael Reifenberg)
-Fix very old bug which made tuples changed/inserted by a commnd
-	visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of 
-	updated tuples, etc)(Vadim)
+Fix very old bug which made rows changed/inserted by a command
+        visible to the command itself (so we had multiple update of 
+        updated rows, etc.)(Vadim)
 Fix for SELECT null, 'fail' FROM pg_am (Patrick)
 SELECT NULL as EMPTY_FIELD now allowed(Patrick)
 Remove un-needed signal stuff from contrib/pginterface
-Fix OR (where x != 1 or x isnull didn't return tuples with x NULL) (Vadim)
+Fix OR (where x != 1 or x isnull didn't return rows with x NULL) (Vadim)
 Fix time_cmp function (Vadim)
 Fix handling of functions with non-attribute first argument in 
-	WHERE clauses (Vadim)
+        WHERE clauses (Vadim)
 Fix GROUP BY when order of entries is different from order
-	in target list (Vadim)
+        in target list (Vadim)
 Fix pg_dump for aggregates without sfunc1 (Vadim)
 
 Enhancements
@@ -3460,10 +3481,10 @@ Default genetic optimizer GEQO parameter is now 8(Bruce)
 Allow use parameters in target list having aggregates in functions(Vadim)
 Added JDBC driver as an interface(Adrian & Peter)
 pg_password utility
-Return number of tuples inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim)
+Return number of rows inserted/affected by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE etc.(Vadim)
 Triggers implemented with CREATE TRIGGER (SQL3)(Vadim)
 SPI (Server Programming Interface) allows execution of queries inside 
-	C-functions (Vadim)
+        C-functions (Vadim)
 NOT NULL implemented (SQL92)(Robson Paniago de Miranda)
 Include reserved words for string handling, outer joins, and unions(Thomas)
 Implement extended comments ("/* ... */") using exclusive states(Thomas)
@@ -3474,7 +3495,7 @@ Add text concatenation operator and function (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Support WITH TIME ZONE syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Support INTERVAL unit TO unit syntax (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Define types DOUBLE PRECISION, INTERVAL, CHARACTER,
-	and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas)
+        and CHARACTER VARYING (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Define type FLOAT(p) and rudimentary DECIMAL(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s) (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Define EXTRACT(), POSITION(), SUBSTRING(), and TRIM() (SQL92)(Thomas)
 Define CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (SQL92)(Thomas)
@@ -3484,11 +3505,11 @@ Allow hh:mm:ss time entry for timespan/reltime types(Thomas)
 Add center() routines for lseg, path, polygon(Thomas)
 Add distance() routines for circle-polygon, polygon-polygon(Thomas)
 Check explicitly for points and polygons contained within polygons
-	using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas)
+        using an axis-crossing algorithm(Thomas)
 Add routine to convert circle-box(Thomas)
 Merge conflicting operators for different geometric data types(Thomas)
-Replace distance operator "<===>" with "<->"(Thomas)
-Replace "above" operator "!^" with ">^" and "below" operator "!|" with "<^"(Thomas)
+Replace distance operator "&lt;===&gt;" with "&lt;-&gt;"(Thomas)
+Replace "above" operator "!^" with "&gt;^" and "below" operator "!|" with "&lt;^"(Thomas)
 Add routines for text trimming on both ends, substring, and string position(Thomas)
 Added conversion routines circle(box) and poly(circle)(Thomas)
 Allow internal sorts to be stored in memory rather than in files(Bruce & Vadim)
@@ -3636,10 +3657,11 @@ optimizer which uses <firstterm>genetic</firstterm>
 </para>
 
 <para>
-  The "random" results in the random test should cause the "random" test
-  to be "failed", since the regression tests are evaluated using a simple
-  diff. However, "random" does not seem to produce random results on my 
-  test machine (Linux/gcc/i686).
+  The <quote>random</> results in the random test should cause the
+  <quote>random</quote> test to be <quote>failed</quote>, since the
+  regression tests are evaluated using a simple diff. However,
+  <quote>random</> does not seem to produce random results on my test
+  machine (Linux/<application>gcc</>/i686).
 </para>
 
 <sect2>
@@ -3665,14 +3687,14 @@ Bug Fixes
 packet length checking in library routines
 lock manager priority patch
 check for under/over flow of float8(Bruce)
-multi-table join fix(Vadim)
+multitable join fix(Vadim)
 SIGPIPE crash fix(Darren)
 large object fixes(Sven)
 allow btree indexes to handle NULLs(Vadim)
 timezone fixes(D'Arcy)
 select SUM(x) can return NULL on no rows(Thomas)
 internal optimizer, executor bug fixes(Vadim)
-fix problem where inner loop in < or <= has no rows(Vadim)
+fix problem where inner loop in &lt; or &lt;= has no rows(Vadim)
 prevent re-commuting join index clauses(Vadim)
 fix join clauses for multiple tables(Vadim)
 fix hash, hashjoin for arrays(Vadim)
@@ -3686,7 +3708,7 @@ fix local buffers leak in transaction aborts (Vadim)
 fix file manager memmory leaks, cleanups (Vadim, Massimo)
 fix storage manager memmory leaks (Vadim)
 fix btree duplicates handling (Vadim)
-fix deleted tuples re-incarnation caused by vacuum (Vadim)
+fix deleted rows reincarnation caused by vacuum (Vadim)
 fix SELECT varchar()/char() INTO TABLE made zero-length fields(Bruce)
 many psql, pg_dump, and libpq memory leaks fixed using Purify (Igor)
 
@@ -3697,7 +3719,7 @@ much faster new btree bulk load code(Paul)
 BTREE UNIQUE added to bulk load code(Vadim) 
 new lock debug code(Massimo)
 massive changes to libpg++(Leo)
-new GEQO optimizer speeds table multi-table optimization(Martin)
+new GEQO optimizer speeds table multitable optimization(Martin)
 new WARN message for non-unique insert into unique key(Marc)
 update x=-3, no spaces, now valid(Bruce)
 remove case-sensitive identifier handling(Bruce,Thomas,Dan)
@@ -3708,7 +3730,7 @@ no such class or insufficient privilege changed to distinct messages(Dan)
 new ANSI timestamp function(Dan)
 new ANSI Time and Date types (Thomas)
 move large chunks of data in backend(Martin)
-multi-column btree indexes(Vadim)
+multicolumn btree indexes(Vadim)
 new SET var TO value command(Martin)
 update transaction status on reads(Dan)
 new locale settings for character types(Oleg)
@@ -3746,7 +3768,7 @@ new OS-specific template files(Marc)
 no more need to edit Makefile.global(Marc)
 re-arrange include files(Marc)
 nextstep patches (Gregor Hoffleit)
-removed WIN32-specific code(Bruce)
+removed Windows-specific code(Bruce)
 removed postmaster -e option, now only postgres -e option (Bruce)
 merge duplicate library code in front/backends(Martin)
 now works with eBones, international Kerberos(Jun)
@@ -3809,7 +3831,7 @@ Fix unitialized reads of memory(Kurt)
 Fixed ALTER TABLE ... char(3) bug(Bruce)
 Fixed a few small memory leaks
 Fixed EXPLAIN handling of options and changed full_path option name
-Fixed output of group acl permissions
+Fixed output of group acl privileges
 Memory leaks (hunt and destroy with tools like Purify(Kurt)
 Minor improvements to rules system
 NOTIFY fixes
@@ -3819,9 +3841,9 @@ Pg_dump -d now handles NULL's properly(Bruce)
 Prevent SELECT NULL from crashing server (Bruce)
 Properly report errors when INSERT ... SELECT columns did not match
 Properly report errors when insert column names were not correct
-Psql \g filename now works(Bruce)
-Psql fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs
-Removed duplicate system oid's
+psql \g filename now works(Bruce)
+psql fixed problem with multiple statements on one line with multiple outputs
+Removed duplicate system OIDs
 SELECT * INTO TABLE . GROUP/ORDER BY gives unlink error if table exists(Bruce)
 Several fixes for queries that crashed the backend
 Starting quote in insert string errors(Bruce)
@@ -3853,20 +3875,20 @@ Gist now included in the distrubution(Marc)
 Idend authentication of local users(Bryan)
 Implement BETWEEN qualifier(Bruce)
 Implement IN qualifier(Bruce)
-Libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce)
-Libpq++ improvements
+libpq has PQgetisnull()(Bruce)
+libpq++ improvements
 New options to initdb(Bryan)
-Pg_dump allow dump of oid's(Bruce)
+Pg_dump allow dump of OIDs(Bruce)
 Pg_dump create indexes after tables are loaded for speed(Bruce)
 Pg_dumpall dumps all databases, and the user table
 Pginterface additions for NULL values(Bruce)
 Prevent postmaster from being run as root
-Psql \h and \? is now readable(Bruce)
-Psql allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line(Bruce)
-Psql changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes(Bruce)
-Psql char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output(Bruce)
-Psql return code now more accurate(Bryan?)
-Psql updated help syntax(Bruce)
+psql \h and \? is now readable(Bruce)
+psql allow backslashed, semicolons anywhere on the line(Bruce)
+psql changed command prompt for lines in query or in quotes(Bruce)
+psql char(3) now displays as (bp)char in \d output(Bruce)
+psql return code now more accurate(Bryan?)
+psql updated help syntax(Bruce)
 Re-visit and fix vacuum(Vadim)
 Reduce size of regression diffs, remove timezone name difference(Bruce)
 Remove compile-time parameters to enable binary distributions(Bryan)
@@ -3963,7 +3985,7 @@ Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.02.1 to 1.01 or 1.02
    1.01 or 1.02 database is named <literal>testdb</literal> and you have cut the commands
    from the end of this file and saved them in <filename>addfunc.sql</filename>:
 <programlisting>
-	% psql testdb -f addfunc.sql
+        % psql testdb -f addfunc.sql
 </programlisting>
 
 Those upgrading 1.02 databases will get a warning when executing the
@@ -3986,11 +4008,11 @@ end-of-data marker.  Also, empty strings are now loaded in as '' rather
 than NULL. See the copy manual page for full details.
 
 <programlisting>
-	sed 's/^\.$/\\./g' &lt;in_file &gt;out_file
+        sed 's/^\.$/\\./g' &lt;in_file &gt;out_file
 </programlisting>
 </para>
 <para>
-If you are loading an older binary copy or non-stdout copy, there is no
+If you are loading an older binary copy or non-<systemitem>stdout</> copy, there is no
 end-of-data character, and hence no conversion necessary.
 
 <programlisting>
@@ -4019,7 +4041,7 @@ Enhancements
  * pg_dump now output the schema and/or the data, with many fixes to
    enhance completeness.
  * psql used in place of monitor in administration shell scripts.
-   monitor to be depreciated in next release.
+   monitor to be deprecated in next release.
  * date/time functions enhanced
  * NULL insert/update/comparison fixed/enhanced
  * TCL/TK lib and shell fixed to work with both tck7.4/tk4.0 and tcl7.5/tk4.1
@@ -4038,31 +4060,31 @@ New Ports
 </para>
 <!--
 Contributors (appologies to any missed)
- * Kurt J. Lidl <lidl@va.pubnix.com> 
-	(missed in first run, but no less important)
- * Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
- * Jason Wright <jason@shiloh.vnet.net>
- * Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.NL.net>
+ * Kurt J. Lidl &lt;lidl@va.pubnix.com&gt; 
+        (missed in first run, but no less important)
+ * Erich Stamberger &lt;eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at&gt;
+ * Jason Wright &lt;jason@shiloh.vnet.net&gt;
+ * Cees de Groot &lt;C.deGroot@inter.NL.net&gt;
  * ernst.molitor@uni-bonn.de
  * michael.siebenborn@ae3.Hypo.DE (Michael Siebenborn (6929))
- * Brian E. Gallew <geek+@cmu.edu>
- * Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
- * Adam Sussman <myddryn@vidya.com>
- * Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
- * Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@ki.net>
- * Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@indirect.com>
- * Dr_George_D_Detlefsen <drgeorge@ilt.com>
- * Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
- * Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
- * Randy Kunkee <kunkee@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- * Rick Weldon <rick@wisetech.com>
- * Thomas van Reimersdahl <reimersd@dali.techinfo.rwth-aachen.de>
- * david bennett <dave@bensoft.com>
+ * Brian E. Gallew &lt;geek+@cmu.edu&gt;
+ * Vadim B. Mikheev &lt;vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su&gt;
+ * Adam Sussman &lt;myddryn@vidya.com&gt;
+ * Chris Dunlop &lt;chris@onthe.net.au&gt;
+ * Marc G. Fournier &lt;scrappy@ki.net&gt;
+ * Dan McGuirk &lt;mcguirk@indirect.com&gt;
+ * Dr_George_D_Detlefsen &lt;drgeorge@ilt.com&gt;
+ * Erich Stamberger &lt;eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at&gt;
+ * Massimo Dal Zotto &lt;dz@cs.unitn.it&gt;
+ * Randy Kunkee &lt;kunkee@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM&gt;
+ * Rick Weldon &lt;rick@wisetech.com&gt;
+ * Thomas van Reimersdahl &lt;reimersd@dali.techinfo.rwth-aachen.de&gt;
+ * david bennett &lt;dave@bensoft.com&gt;
  * ernst.molitor@uni-bonn.de
- * Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
- * Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
- * Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
- * "Alistair G. Crooks" <azcb0@sde.uts.amdahl.com>
+ * Julian Assange &lt;proff@suburbia.net&gt;
+ * Bruce Momjian &lt;pgman@candle.pha.pa.us&gt;
+ * Paul "Shag" Walmsley &lt;ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu&gt;
+ * "Alistair G. Crooks" &lt;azcb0@sde.uts.amdahl.com&gt;
 -->
 </sect2>
 </sect1>
@@ -4115,7 +4137,7 @@ If you do, you must create a file name <literal>pg_hba</literal> in your top-lev
 If you do not want host-based authentication, you can comment out
    the line
 <programlisting>
-	HBA = 1
+        HBA = 1
 </programlisting>
    in <filename>src/Makefile.global</filename>
 </para>
@@ -4164,7 +4186,7 @@ Add the new built-in functions and operators of 1.01 to 1.0
    If your 1.0 database is name <literal>testdb</literal>:
 
 <programlisting>
-	% psql testdb -f 1.0_to_1.01.sql
+        % psql testdb -f 1.0_to_1.01.sql
 </programlisting>
 
 and then execute the following commands (cut and paste from here):
@@ -4231,7 +4253,7 @@ Enhancements:
  * added PQdisplayTuples() to libpq and changed monitor and psql to use it
  * added NeXT port (requires SysVIPC implementation)
  * added CAST .. AS ... syntax
- * added ASC and DESC keywords
+ * added ASC and DESC key words
  * added 'internal' as a possible language for CREATE FUNCTION
    internal functions are C functions which have been statically linked
    into the postgres backend.
@@ -4280,7 +4302,7 @@ Copyright change:
 Incompatibilities:
  *  date formats have to be MM-DD-YYYY (or DD-MM-YYYY if you're using
    EUROPEAN STYLE).  This follows SQL-92 specs.
- *  "delimiters" is now a keyword
+ *  "delimiters" is now a key word
 
 Enhancements:
  *  sql LIKE syntax has been added
@@ -4304,7 +4326,7 @@ Bug fixes:
  *  users with usecreatedb field set can now create databases without
    having to be usesuper
  *  remove access control entries when the entry no longer has any
-   permissions
+   privileges
  *  fixed non-portable datetimes implementation
  *  added kerberos flags to the src/backend/Makefile
  *  libpq now works with kerberos
@@ -4354,9 +4376,9 @@ more compliant to the SQL-92 standard):
    char(N), varchar(N), date and time.
 
    The following are aliases to existing postgres types:
-		smallint -> int2
-		integer, int -> int4
-		float, real  -> float4
+                smallint -&gt; int2
+                integer, int -&gt; int4
+                float, real  -&gt; float4
    char(N) and varchar(N) are implemented as truncated text types. In
    addition, char(N) does blank-padding. 
  * single-quote (') is used for quoting string literals; '' (in addition to
@@ -4365,27 +4387,27 @@ more compliant to the SQL-92 standard):
    (Also, aggregates can now be overloaded, i.e. you can define your
    own MAX aggregate to take in a user-defined type.)
  * CHANGE ACL removed. GRANT/REVOKE syntax added.  
-   - Privileges can be given to a group using the "GROUP" keyword.
-	For example:
-		GRANT SELECT ON foobar TO GROUP my_group;
-	The keyword 'PUBLIC' is also supported to mean all users.	
+   - Privileges can be given to a group using the "GROUP" key word.
+        For example:
+                GRANT SELECT ON foobar TO GROUP my_group;
+        The key word 'PUBLIC' is also supported to mean all users.      
 
-	Privileges can only be granted or revoked to one user or group
-	at a time.  
+        Privileges can only be granted or revoked to one user or group
+        at a time.  
 
-	"WITH GRANT OPTION" is not supported.  Only class owners can change
-	access control
+        "WITH GRANT OPTION" is not supported.  Only class owners can change
+        access control
    - The default access control is to to grant users readonly access.
      You must explicitly grant insert/update access to users.  To change
      this, modify the line in 
-		src/backend/utils/acl.h 
+                src/backend/utils/acl.h 
      that defines ACL_WORLD_DEFAULT 
 
 Bug fixes:
  * the bug where aggregates of empty tables were not run has been fixed. Now,
    aggregates run on empty tables will return the initial conditions of the
-   aggregates. Thus, COUNT of an empty	table will now properly return 0.
-   MAX/MIN of an empty table will return a tuple of value NULL. 
+   aggregates. Thus, COUNT of an empty  table will now properly return 0.
+   MAX/MIN of an empty table will return a row of value NULL. 
  * allow the use of \; inside the monitor
  * the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work
  * NOTIFY in rule action bodies now work
@@ -4400,9 +4422,9 @@ Other changes and enhancements:
  * WARN and NOTICE messages no longer have timestamps on them. To turn on
    timestamps of error messages, uncomment the line in
    src/backend/utils/elog.h:
-	/* define ELOG_TIMESTAMPS */ 
+        /* define ELOG_TIMESTAMPS */ 
  * On an access control violation, the message
-	"Either no such class or insufficient privilege"
+        "Either no such class or insufficient privilege"
    will be given.  This is the same message that is returned when
    a class is not found.  This dissuades non-privileged users from
    guessing the existence of privileged classes.
@@ -4411,7 +4433,7 @@ Other changes and enhancements:
 
 libpgtcl changes:
  * The -oid option has been added to the "pg_result" tcl command.
-   pg_result -oid returns oid of the last tuple inserted.   If the
+   pg_result -oid returns oid of the last row inserted.   If the
    last command was not an INSERT, then pg_result -oid returns "".
  * the large object interface is available as pg_lo* tcl commands:
    pg_lo_open, pg_lo_close, pg_lo_creat, etc.
@@ -4422,7 +4444,7 @@ Portability enhancements and New Ports:
    what lexer you use based on the platform you use. 
  * The Linux-ELF port is now supported.  Various configuration have been 
    tested:  The following configuration is known to work:
-	kernel 1.2.10, gcc 2.6.3, libc 4.7.2, flex 2.5.2, bison 1.24
+        kernel 1.2.10, gcc 2.6.3, libc 4.7.2, flex 2.5.2, bison 1.24
    with everything in ELF format,
 
 New utilities:
@@ -4460,10 +4482,10 @@ Incompatible changes:
 New tools:
  * pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
  * pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
-	script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
-	format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
-	machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
-	a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
+        script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
+        format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
+        machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
+        a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
 
 The following ports have been incorporated into postgres95-beta-0.02:
  * the NetBSD port by Alistair Crooks
@@ -4619,3 +4641,4 @@ sgml-local-catalogs:("/usr/lib/sgml/catalog")
 sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
 End:
 -->
+
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
index f9cfc6b70d..361f8257bf 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ Update this file to propagate correct current version numbers to the
 documentation.  In text, use for example &version; to refer to them.
 -->
 
-<!entity version "7.2.6">
+<!entity version "7.2.7">
 <!entity majorversion "7.2">
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.win32 b/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
index 9b3b46d852..c27ee8906d 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.win32
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 /*
  * Parts of pg_config.h that you get with autoconf on other systems
  */
-#define PG_VERSION "7.2.6"
-#define PG_VERSION_STR "7.2.6 (win32)"
+#define PG_VERSION "7.2.7"
+#define PG_VERSION_STR "7.2.7 (win32)"
 
 #define SYSCONFDIR ""
 
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq++/libpq++dll.rc b/src/interfaces/libpq++/libpq++dll.rc
index 332d0fa781..a02efc6798 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq++/libpq++dll.rc
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq++/libpq++dll.rc
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #include <winver.h>
 
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 7,2,6,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 7,2,6,0
+ FILEVERSION 7,2,7,0
+ PRODUCTVERSION 7,2,7,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
  FILEFLAGS 0x0L
  FILEOS 0x40004L
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ BEGIN
             VALUE "Comments", "\0"
             VALUE "CompanyName", " \0"
             VALUE "FileDescription", "PostgreSQL C++ Access Library\0"
-            VALUE "FileVersion", "7, 2, 6, 0\0"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "7, 2, 7, 0\0"
             VALUE "InternalName", "libpq++\0"
             VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2000\0"
             VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "\0"
             VALUE "OriginalFilename", "libpq++.dll\0"
             VALUE "PrivateBuild", "\0"
             VALUE "ProductName", "PostgreSQL\0"
-            VALUE "ProductVersion", "7, 2, 6, 0\0"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "7, 2, 7, 0\0"
             VALUE "SpecialBuild", "\0"
         END
     END
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc b/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc
index 99116caab3..0052b3da43 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #include <winver.h>
 
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 7,2,6,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 7,2,6,0
+ FILEVERSION 7,2,7,0
+ PRODUCTVERSION 7,2,7,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
  FILEFLAGS 0
  FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ BEGIN
         BEGIN
             VALUE "CompanyName", "\0"
             VALUE "FileDescription", "PostgreSQL Access Library\0"
-            VALUE "FileVersion", "7, 2, 6, 0\0"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "7, 2, 7, 0\0"
             VALUE "InternalName", "libpq\0"
             VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2000\0"
             VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "\0"
             VALUE "OriginalFilename", "libpq.dll\0"
             VALUE "ProductName", "PostgreSQL\0"
-            VALUE "ProductVersion", "7, 2, 6, 0\0"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "7, 2, 7, 0\0"
         END
     END
     BLOCK "VarFileInfo"