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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2003-03-21 01:58:05 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2003-03-21 01:58:05 +0000
commitd72f6c75038d8d37e64a29a04b911f728044d83b (patch)
treeeceda56ef435a8b8317d0e123cbdb0fe2cd844e4 /doc/src
parent5ae424529b1bb9bf36eddbec57c7ba887698371e (diff)
Reimplement NUMERIC datatype using base-10000 arithmetic; also improve
some of the algorithms for higher functions. I see about a factor of ten speedup on the 'numeric' regression test, but it's unlikely that that test is representative of real-world applications. initdb forced due to change of on-disk representation for NUMERIC.
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-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.185 2003/02/05 17:41:32 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.186 2003/03/21 01:58:04 tgl Exp $
-->
<appendix id="release">
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ CDATA means the content is "SGML-free", so you can write without
worries about funny characters.
-->
<literallayout><![CDATA[
+Reimplementation of NUMERIC datatype for more speed
New regular expression package, many more regexp features (most of Perl5)
Can now do EXPLAIN ... EXECUTE to see plan used for a prepared query
Explicit JOINs no longer constrain query plan, unless JOIN_COLLAPSE_LIMIT = 1