Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Mon Jul 14 12:27:39 EDT 1997
+ Last updated: Mon Jul 21 18:04:00 EDT 1997
Version: 6.1.1
1.6) Latest release of PostgreSQL
- The latest release of PostgreSQL is version 6.1.1, which will be
- released in July, 1997. For information about what is new in 6.1.1,
- see our TODO list on our WWW page.
+ The latest release of PostgreSQL is version 6.1.1, which was released
+ on July 22, 1997. For information about what is new in 6.1.1, see our
+ TODO list on our WWW page.
We expect a 7.0 release in several months that will remove time-travel
and reduce by 50% the size of on-disk system columns maintained for
Upgrading to 6.1 requires a dump and restore from previous releases.
- Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.1.1 requires a compile of the new release,
- recompile of all your custom applications to use the new libpq, and
- then an install while the postmaster is temporarily stopped.
+ Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.1.1 requires running configure, compile of the
+ new release, recompile of all your custom applications to use the new
+ libpq, and then an install while the postmaster is temporarily
+ stopped.
Those ugrading from versions earlier than 1.09 must upgrade to 1.09
first without a dump/reload, then dump the data from 1.09, and then
index. You need to define a function which acts on the multiple
columns, then use create index with that function.
- In 6.1, this feature is available.
+ This feature is available in 6.1 and later releases.
3.25) What are the temp_XXX files in my database directory?
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TODO list (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
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-last updated: Sun Jul 13 23:13:24 EDT 1997
+last updated: Mon Jul 21 18:01:37 EDT 1997
certain indexes will not shrink, i.e. oid indexes with many inserts
make NULL's come out at the beginning or end depending on the ORDER BY direction
change the library/backend interface to use network byte order
+allow unix domain sockets for local connections for performance and security
PERFORMANCE
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