From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199909131711.NAA22947@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.SK.990913203428.425E-100000@ra> from Oleg Bartunov
	at "Sep 13, 1999 08:38:30 pm"
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
CC: "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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> Bruce,
> 
> in HISTORY for 6.5.2 I see:
> 
> This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Tom)
> 
> isn't this re-use indices after vacuum hack by Vadim ?
> (prevent indices to grow infinitely)
> 

Thanks.  I have updated the release.sgml and the HISTORY file.

I should have posted the list of changes.  Here it is.  Gee, it is quite
a lot.  Thomas, any way to get the dates from the release.sgml into the
HISTORY file and the html output?

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Detailed Change List

       subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
       Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren
       Sefcik)
       Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
       Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
       Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indices(Tom)
       Improve it so that it checks for multi-column constraints(Tom)
       Fix for Win32 making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
       Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
       Fix SET NAMES
       int8 fixes(Thomas)
       Fix vacuum's memory consumption(Tom)
       Reduce the total memory consumption of vacuum(Tom)
       Fix for timestamp(datetime)
       Rule deparsing bugfixes(Tom)
       Fix quoting problems in mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in and
       mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh.in(Tom)
       Update frontend libpq to remove limits on query lengths,
       error/notice message lengths, and number of fields per tuple(Tom)
       This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Vadim)
       document -x for pg_dump(Bruce)
       Fix for unary operators in rule deparser(Tom)
       Comment out FileUnlink of excess segments during mdtruncate()(Tom)
       Irix linking fix from Yu Cao <yucao@falcon.kla-tencor.com>
       Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
       when reach end of pattern before end of text(Tom)
       Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction
       abort(Tom)

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