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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Martin Pitt
  • Date: 2009-07-01 17:41:41 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.4 upstream)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 6.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090701174141-jfmn9tt8e69m950x
Tags: 8.4.0-1
* Final 8.4.0 release. Major enhancements:
  - Windowing Functions
  - Common Table Expressions and Recursive Queries
  - Default and variadic parameters for functions
  - Parallel Restore
  - Column Permissions
  - Per-database locale settings
  - Improved hash indexes
  - Improved join performance for EXISTS and NOT EXISTS queries
  - Easier-to-use Warm Standby
  - Automatic sizing of the Free Space Map
  - Visibility Map (greatly reduces vacuum overhead for slowly-changing
    tables)
  - Version-aware psql (backslash commands work against older servers)
  - Support SSL certificates for user authentication
  - Per-function runtime statistics
  - Easy editing of functions in psql
  - New contrib modules: pg_stat_statements, auto_explain, citext,
    btree_gin 
  Upload to unstable, 8.4 is the new default. 
* debian/control: Build the versionless metapackages and have them point to
  8.4.

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