From 1d1b8191ceda6f88d721cc7299aff010136e21cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:31:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Minor improvements to the release notes.
---
doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 1d91953a0aa..f444ac21466 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.297 2004/09/24 01:31:32 neilc Exp $
-->
<appendix id="release">
@@ -1124,7 +1124,8 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- GRANT/REVOKE behavior follows the SQL spec more closely
+ <command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command> behavior
+ follows the SQL spec more closely
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1187,14 +1188,15 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Add --pwfile option to initdb so the initial password can be set by GUI tools
- (Magnus)
+ Add --pwfile option to <application>initdb</application> so the
+ initial password can be set by GUI tools (Magnus)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Detect locale/encoding mismatch in initdb (Peter)
+ Detect locale/encoding mismatch in
+ <application>initdb</application> (Peter)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1499,7 +1501,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow plpgsql parameter names to be referenced in the function (Dennis Bjorklund)
+ Allow PL/PgSQL parameter names to be referenced in the function (Dennis Bjorklund)
</para>
<para>
This basically creates an automatic alias for each named parameter.
@@ -1508,7 +1510,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Do minimal syntax checking of plpgsql functions at creation time (Tom)
+ Do minimal syntax checking of PL/PgSQL functions at creation time (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This allows us to catch simple syntax errors sooner.
@@ -1517,7 +1519,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- More support for composite types (row and record variables) in plpgsql
+ More support for composite types (row and record variables) in PL/PgSQL
</para>
<para>
For example, it now works to pass a rowtype variable to another function
@@ -1527,14 +1529,14 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Default values for plpgsql variables can now reference previously
+ Default values for PL/PgSQL variables can now reference previously
declared variables
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve parsing of plpgsql FOR loops (Tom)
+ Improve parsing of PL/PgSQL FOR loops (Tom)
</para>
<para>
Parsing is now driven by presence of ".." rather than datatype of FOR
@@ -1545,7 +1547,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Major overhaul of plperl server-side language (Command Prompt, Andrew Dunstan)
+ Major overhaul of PL/Perl server-side language (Command Prompt, Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1706,8 +1708,8 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_dump use ALTER OWNER rather than SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
- by default (Christopher)
+ Have pg_dump use ALTER OWNER rather than SET SESSION
+ AUTHORIZATION by default (Christopher)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1876,7 +1878,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Improvements to the MAC OS-X startup scripts (Ray A.)
+ Improvements to the Mac OS X startup scripts (Ray A.)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1900,19 +1902,21 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove pg_encoding; not needed anymore
+ Remove <application>pg_encoding</application>; not needed
+ anymore
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove pg_id; not needed anymore
+ Remove <application>pg_id</application>; not needed anymore
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove initlocation; not needed anymore
+ Remove <application>initlocation</application>; not needed
+ anymore
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1947,11 +1951,12 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.296 2004/09/13 20:05:18 tgl Exp
<listitem>
<para>
- New linked list data structure implementation (Neil)
+ Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the
+ backend (Neil)
</para>
<para>
- This improves performance by allowing list append operations to be
- more efficient.
+ This improves performance by allowing list append and length
+ operations to be more efficient.
</para>
</listitem>
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