Re: 7.4 status

Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> SSL
> ! Major improvements in SSL performance and security

Did we actually add any "security" to the SSL code? Performance and
reliability, maybe, but I didn't think we'd done anything to the
security algorithms per se. Did I miss something?

> Index Growth Prevention
> Allow free space map to efficiently reused empty index pages,
> ! and other free space management improvements.

"reused" -> "reuse"

> ! ANSI joins are now fully optimized

"better" optimized maybe; I wouldn't say we're done with that issue yet.
(In particular, I want to look into reordering outer joins sometime.)

> ! Faster regular expression code

We could tout more functionality too, since the new regex package
has a lot of advanced stuff that wasn't there before.

> * The server-side autocommit setting was removed an reimplemented
> in client applications and languages.

"an" -> "and"

> ! * Error message wording has changed dramatically in this release,
> and error codes have been added.

"Substantially" might be a better term anyway?

> * ANSI joins may behave differently because they are now fully optimized

See above

> * Date values now must match the ordering specified by DateStyle

... except that YYYY-MM-DD (with 3 or more digits for year) is always
accepted.

regards, tom lane