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<title>Database Operations</title>
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<title>Database Manipulation</title>
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<title>Vacuum</title>
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<title>EXPLAIN</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have EXPLAIN VERBOSE show the output columns of a query (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously EXPLAIN VERBOSE output an internal representation of the
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output columns.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have EXPLAIN honor debug_print_plan (Tom) bjm: verify behavior, this
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replaces EXPLAIN VERBOSE?
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow EXPLAIN on CREATE TABLE AS (Peter)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Indexes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Dramatically improve the speed of building and accessing hash indexes
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(Tom Raney, Shreya Bhargava, Kenneth Marshall, Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows hash indexes to be often faster than btree indexes.
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However, hash indexes are still not crash-safe.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have hash indexes store only the hashed value, not the full indexed
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columns (Xiao Meng)
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</para>
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<para>
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This greatly reduces the size of hash indexes for long indexed
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values, and improves performance.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Remove requirement to use "@@@" when doing GIN weighted lookups on full
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text indexes (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add optimizer selectivity function for '@@' text search operations (Jan
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Urbanski)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add partial match support for GIN indexes (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow prefix matching in full text searches (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg
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Bartunov)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support multi-column GIN indexes (Teodor Sigaev)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Special xxx_pattern_ops LIKE indexes can now be used for simple equality
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comparisons (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</sect3>
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<title>VACUUM</title>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>EXPLAIN</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have EXPLAIN VERBOSE show the output columns of a query (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously EXPLAIN VERBOSE output an internal representation of the
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output columns.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have EXPLAIN honor debug_print_plan (Tom) bjm: verify behavior, this
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replaces EXPLAIN VERBOSE?
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow EXPLAIN on CREATE TABLE AS (Peter)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Other Utility Operations</title>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Arrays</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have cast on ARRAY[] apply to all elements, not just the array result
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(Brendan Jurd)
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows NULL ARRAY[] entries as long as it is properly cast
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make the SQL ARRAY dimensions optional to match the SQL standard
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(Peter)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add array_ndims() function to return the number of dimensions of an array (Robert
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Haas)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add array_length() function to return the length of an array for the
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specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert Haas, Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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<para>
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Also add identically-functioning SQL-standard function cardinality().
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add new aggregate function array_agg(), which returns all aggregated
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values as a single array (Robert Haas, Jeff Davis, Peter)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add function unnest(), which converts an array to individual row values
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(Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This is the opposite of array_agg().
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add array_fill() to create arrays initialized with a value (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add generate_subscripts() to generate array subscripts (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Generate proper error if a SERIAL array is specified (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>General Functions</title>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Database Informational Functions</title>
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<title>Object Information Functions</title>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Arrays</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have cast on ARRAY[] apply to all elements, not just the array result
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(Brendan Jurd)
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows NULL ARRAY[] entries as long as it is properly cast
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make the SQL ARRAY dimensions optional to match the SQL standard
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(Peter)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add array_ndims() function to return the number of dimensions of an array (Robert
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Haas)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add array_length() function to return the length of an array for the
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specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert Haas, Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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<para>
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Also add identically-functioning SQL-standard function cardinality().
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add new aggregate function array_agg(), which returns all aggregated
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values as a single array (Robert Haas, Jeff Davis, Peter)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add function unnest(), which converts an array to individual row values
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(Tom)
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</para>
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This is the opposite of array_agg().
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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Add array_fill() to create arrays initialized with a value (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add generate_subscripts() to generate array subscripts (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Generate proper error if a SERIAL array is specified (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Indexes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Dramatically improve the speed of building and accessing hash indexes
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(Tom Raney, Shreya Bhargava, Kenneth Marshall, Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This allows hash indexes to be often faster than btree indexes.
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However, hash indexes are still not crash-safe.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Have hash indexes store only the hashed value, not the full indexed
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columns (Xiao Meng)
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</para>
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<para>
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This greatly reduces the size of hash indexes for long indexed
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values, and improves performance.
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Remove requirement to use "@@@" when doing GIN weighted lookups on full
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text indexes (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add optimizer selectivity function for '@@' text search operations (Jan
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Urbanski)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Add partial match support for GIN indexes (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow prefix matching in full text searches (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg
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Bartunov)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support multi-column GIN indexes (Teodor Sigaev)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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Special xxx_pattern_ops LIKE indexes can now be used for simple equality
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comparisons (Tom)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language</title>
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