From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 7.4 status |
Date: | 2003-09-29 22:32:15 |
Message-ID: | 11389.1064874735@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> SSL
> ! Major improvements in SSL performance and security
Did we actually add any "security" to the SSL code? Performance and
reliability, maybe, but I didn't think we'd done anything to the
security algorithms per se. Did I miss something?
> Index Growth Prevention
> Allow free space map to efficiently reused empty index pages,
> ! and other free space management improvements.
"reused" -> "reuse"
> ! ANSI joins are now fully optimized
"better" optimized maybe; I wouldn't say we're done with that issue yet.
(In particular, I want to look into reordering outer joins sometime.)
> ! Faster regular expression code
We could tout more functionality too, since the new regex package
has a lot of advanced stuff that wasn't there before.
> * The server-side autocommit setting was removed an reimplemented
> in client applications and languages.
"an" -> "and"
> ! * Error message wording has changed dramatically in this release,
> and error codes have been added.
"Substantially" might be a better term anyway?
> * ANSI joins may behave differently because they are now fully optimized
See above
> * Date values now must match the ordering specified by DateStyle
... except that YYYY-MM-DD (with 3 or more digits for year) is always
accepted.
regards, tom lane
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