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Finalize 8.5alpha2 release notes, with updates from Josh Berkus

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.5.sgml,v 1.5 2009/10/20 19:52:58 petere Exp $ -->
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<sect1 id="release-8-5">
<title>Release 8.5alpha2</title>
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reported.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Testing</title>
<para>
The primary reason we release alphas is to get users to test new
features as early as possible. If you are interested in helping
with organized testing, please see
<ulink url="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HowToBetaTest">the
testing information page</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<sect3>
<title>SQL Features</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem override="box">
<para>
<emphasis>Modify the definition of window-function PARTITION
BY and ORDER BY clauses so that their elements are always
taken as simple expressions over the query's input
columns.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Fix bug with WITH RECURSIVE immediately inside WITH
RECURSIVE.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Define a new, more extensible syntax for COPY options.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows
users to adjust the privileges that will be applied to
subsequently-created objects.</>
<emphasis>Add SQL-compliant triggers on columns, which fire only if
certain columns are named in the UPDATE's SET list.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support use of function argument names to identify which
actual arguments match which function parameters. The syntax
uses AS, for example funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS
arg2).</>
<emphasis>Add CREATE LIKE INCLUDING COMMENTS and STORAGE, and INCLUDING
ALL shortcut to allow users to make an exact copy of a table including
all options and features.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add CREATE LIKE INCLUDING COMMENTS and STORAGE, and INCLUDING
ALL shortcut.</>
<emphasis>Define a new, more extensible syntax for COPY options
in order to support additional COPY options in the future.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add GRANT/REVOKE ON ALL TABLES/SEQUENCES/FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA.</>
<emphasis>Modify the definition of window-function PARTITION
BY and ORDER BY clauses so that their elements are always
taken as simple expressions over the query's input
columns. This fixes a bug.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if
certain columns are named in the UPDATE's SET list.</>
<emphasis>Fix bug with nested WITH RECURSIVE statements.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Implement &quot;join removal&quot; for cases where the inner side
of a left join is unique and is not referenced above the join.</>
of a left join is unique and is not referenced above the join. This should
speed up many ORM-generated and reporting tool queries.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Remove the use of the flat files pg_auth and
pg_database in order to improve performance. (Warning: pgbouncer
and possibly other tools currently suggest referring to the pg_auth
file for its user database. Such schemes will no longer work.)</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Make it possibly to specify server configuration parameters
per user and per database. psql has gained a drds command to
per user-database combination. Add a \drds command to psql to
display the settings.</>
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
<emphasis>Allow the collection of statistics on sequences.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to
3, and have pg_dump use that value when the backend is new
enough to allow it, because it is possible to need 3 extra
digits for float4 values (but not for float8 values).</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
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</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Server Configuration</title>
<title>Security</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to
3, and have pg_dump use that value when the backend is new
enough to allow it, because it is possible to need 3 extra
digits for float4 values (but not for float8 values).</>
<emphasis>Add ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows
users to adjust the privileges that will be applied to
subsequently-created objects.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add GRANT/REVOKE ON ALL TABLES/SEQUENCES/FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA.
This makes it easier to manage permissions on database objects.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Security</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support &quot;samehost&quot; and &quot;samenet&quot; specifications
in pg_hba.conf.</emphasis>
in pg_hba.conf. This allows users with dynamic server addresses to run
PostgreSQL without frequently modifying pg_hba.conf</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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the postmaster from a boot-time script.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Remove the use of the flat files pg_auth and
pg_database. (At least pgbouncer currently suggests referring
to the pg_auth file for its user database. Such schemes will
no longer work.)</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
pg_dump/pg_restore --clean now drops large objects.
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code without having to create a function for it.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support use of function argument names to identify which
actual arguments match which function parameters. The syntax
uses AS, for example funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS
arg2).</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Fix/improve bytea and boolean support in PL/Python. Data type
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow plpgsql IN parameters to be assigned to.</>
<emphasis>PL/pgSQL IN parameters now accept value assignments.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow MOVE FORWARD n, MOVE BACKWARD n, MOVE FORWARD ALL, MOVE
BACKWARD ALL in PL/pgSQL.</>
<emphasis>Allow cursor commands MOVE FORWARD n, MOVE BACKWARD n,
MOVE FORWARD ALL, MOVE BACKWARD ALL in PL/pgSQL.</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Assorted improvements in contrib/hstore.</>
<emphasis>Multiple improvements in contrib/hstore, including
raising limits on keys and values, conversions to and from
records and arrays, and support for GROUP BY and DISTINCT.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Programming Tools</title>
<title>Development</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
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<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Make libpq reject non-numeric and out-of-range port numbers with a
suitable error message.</>
suitable error message.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Development</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Functions which conflict with C++ reserved words have been renamed,
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