PostgreSQL 6.4
- Release notes
- Released: 1998-10-30 (announcement)
- Final minor version: 6.4.2
- EOL: 1998-12
- Documentation: PostgreSQL 6.4
Major features
- VIEWs (read-only)
- RULEs
- PL/pgSQL
- Frontend/Backend Protocol version 2 introduced
SQL changes
Added:
CREATE SEQUENCE
(commit 9729f6ca)DROP SEQUENCE
(commit 9729f6ca)UNLISTEN
(commit f62d1253)
Modified:
Data type changes
Added:
System catalogue changes
Tables
Modified:
pg_database
- column
encoding
added (commit bf00bbb0)
- column
Views
Added:
pg_rules
(commit 15cb32d9)pg_views
(commit 15cb32d9)pg_indexes
(commit f93b6974)pg_tables
(commit f93b6974)
System functions
Added:
octet_length()
(commit f554af0a)pg_get_indexdef()
(commit f93b6974)pg_get_ruledef()
(commit 15cb32d9)pg_get_userbyid()
(commit f93b6974)pg_get_viewdef()
(commit 15cb32d9)version()
(commit 51a1741c)
Core utilities
Modified:
Procedural languages
PL/pgSQL
added (initial commit 863a6206)
Contrib modules
Added: