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might be necessary to expand (<quote>de-TOAST</quote>) input values
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in more cases.
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permissions to view such information (Tom)
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Make JOHAB encoding client-only (Tatsuo)
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For example, <function>pg_database_size()</function> now requires
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<literal>CONNECT</> permission, which is granted to everyone by
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default. <function>pg_tablespace_size()</function> requires
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<literal>CREATE</> permission in the tablespace, or is allowed if
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the tablespace is the default tablespace for the database.
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If application code was computing and storing hash values using
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internal <productname>PostgreSQL</> hashing functions, the hash
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values must be regenerated.
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</para>
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<para>
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<command>ALTER SEQUENCE</> no longer affects <function>currval()</>
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(Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<command>ROLLBACK</> outside a transaction block now
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issues <literal>NOTICE</> instead of <literal>WARNING</> (Bruce)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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have changed (Greg Stark, Tom)
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</para>
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The new <function>SET_VARSIZE()</> macro <emphasis>must</> be used
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to set the length of generated <type>varlena</> values. Also, it
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might be necessary to expand (<quote>de-TOAST</quote>) input values
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in more cases.
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JOHAB is not safe as a server-side encoding.
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Limit the amount of information reported when a user is dropped
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(Alvaro)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, dropping (or attempting to drop) a user who owned many
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objects could result in large <literal>NOTICE</literal> or
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<literal>ERROR</literal> messages listing all these objects; this
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caused problems for some client applications. The length of the
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message is now limited, although a full list is still sent to the
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server log.
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</para>
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Place temporary tables' TOAST tables in special schemas named
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Allow <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</command> to ignore
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transactions in other databases (Simon)
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</para>
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Add new encodings EUC_JIS_2004 and SHIFT_JIS_2004, along with new
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Shaji, Greg Smith, Andrew Dunstan)
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CSV-format log files can be loaded into a database table for subsequent
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</para>
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<para>
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</para>
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<para>
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</para>
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<para>
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</para>
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<para>
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This improves semantic consistency and helps avoid
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performance problems.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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caused problems for some client applications. The length of the
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message is now limited, although a full list is still sent to the
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server log.
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<sect3>
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<title>Other Client Application Changes</title>
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<title>Other Client Applications</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title><link linkend="libpq"><application>libpq</></link> Changes</title>
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<title><link linkend="libpq"><application>libpq</></link></title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title><link linkend="ecpg"><application>ecpg</></link> Changes</title>
|
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<title><link linkend="ecpg"><application>ecpg</></link></title>
|
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
|
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<title>Source Code Changes</title>
|
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<title>Source Code</title>
|
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
|
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<title>Contrib Changes</title>
|
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<title>Contrib</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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