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<para>
- Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</> function to report when
+ Add <function>pg_conf_load_time()</> to report when
the Postgres configuration files were last loaded (George
Gensure)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>array_ndims()</> function to return the number
+ Add <function>array_ndims()</> to return the number
of dimensions of an array (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>array_length()</> function to return the length
+ Add <function>array_length()</> to return the length
of an array for the specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert
Haas, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function <function>unnest()</>, which converts an array to
+ Add <function>unnest()</>, which converts an array to
individual row values (Tom)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>pg_get_keywords()</> function to return predefined
+ Add <function>pg_get_keywords()</> to return predefined
parser keywords (Dave Page)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function <function>pg_get_functiondef()</> to see a functions
+ Add <function>pg_get_functiondef()</> to see a functions
definition (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>pg_typeof()</> function to return the data type
+ Add <function>pg_typeof()</> which returns the data type
of any value (Brendan Jurd)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow the file locations for client <acronym>SSL</> certificates
- to be specified (Mark Woodward, Alvaro, Magnus)
+ Allow the file locations for client certificates to be specified
+ (Mark Woodward, Alvaro, Magnus)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add connection parameter <literal>sslverify</> to control
- the verification of the server's <acronym>SSL</> certificate
+ the verification of the server's certificate
(Magnus)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support 64-bit timezone data files (Heikki)
+ Support 64-bit time zone data files (Heikki)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix bug in handling of the timezone database when cross-compiling
+ Fix bug in handling of the time zone database when cross-compiling
(Richard Evans)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This allows compile-time control over several compile-time
- constants that control how large tables and <acronym>WAL</>
- are segmented into separate files and their internal block
- sizes
+ This allows compile-time control over several constants that
+ affect how tables and <acronym>WAL</> files are segmented and
+ their internal block sizes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for <productname>Sun Studio</> compiler on
+ Add support for the <productname>Sun Studio</> compiler on
<productname>Linux</> (Julius Stroffek)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Append major version number to the gettext domain name, and
- for libraries the soname major version number (Peter)
+ Append the major version number to the <application>gettext</>
+ domain, and the <literal>soname</> major version number to
+ libraries (Peter)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Additional <application>DTrace</> probes (Robert Lor)
+ Add <application>DTrace</> probes (Robert Lor)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <application>DTrace</> support on Mac <application>OS X
+ Add <application>DTrace</> support on <application>Mac OS X
Leopard</> (Robert Lor)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new <type>cstring</> to text conversion functions (Brendan
- Jurd, Tom)
+ Add new <type>cstring</> to <type>text</> conversion functions
+ (Brendan Jurd, Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a hook to allow planner statistics lookup behavior to be
- overridden (Simon Riggs)
+ Add a hook to allow the planner statistics lookup behavior to
+ be overridden (Simon Riggs)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>%expect 0</> to all parser input files to prevent
- builds with parser conflicts (Peter)
+ Prevent parser input files from being built with any conflicts
+ (Peter)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>-M</> (query mode) to <filename>/contrib/pgbench</>
+ Add query mode option to <filename>/contrib/pgbench</>
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <filename>/contrib/citext</> as a case-insensitive,
- multibyte-capable text data type (David Wheeler)
+ multibyte-aware text data type (David Wheeler)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Make sure <filename>/contrib/dblink</> uses a password supplied
- by the user, and not accidentally from the server .pgpass file
+ by the user, and not accidentally from the server's .pgpass file
(Joe Conway)
</para>