PostgreSQL 6.5
- Release notes
- Released: 1999-06-09 (announcement)
- Final minor version: 6.5.3
- EOL: 1999-10
- Documentation: PostgreSQL 6.5
Major features
- MVCC (initial commit 3f7fbf85)
- temporary tables
- support for
CASE
,INTERSECT
andEXCEPT
Data type changes
Added:
NUMERIC
(commit 0e9d75c6)
SQL changes
Added:
LIMIT
/OFFSET
support (commit be948af2)SET TRANSACTION
(commit 3498d878)
Modified:
System catalogue changes
Tables
pg_parg
removed (commit 763a7ab6)
Core utilities
Added:
createlang
(commit 3de11d65)droplang
(commit 3de11d65)
Modified:
pg_dump
- use single serializable transaction, meaning database can stay online while a dump is made (commit df9e539e)
- dump ACLs by default (commit 615e77ed)
- option
-x
added to suppress dumping ACLs (commit 615e77ed) - option
-c
added to drop objects before creation (commit 289a826d) - dump output format improved (commit 84107b41)
Contrib modules
Added: