This patch makes a bunch of improvements to the release notes. I only
modified release.sgml -- HISTORY will need to be regenerated.

I was able to remove almost all of the "Other uncategorized" release
note entries, but left a few that I wasn't sure what to do with. We
should remove this section, and move the remaining entries to other
sections if necessary.

I had a few questions on some of the entries:

What is the following release note entry supposed to mean? "FETCH 0"
doesn't "do nothing", it now fetches the current cursor row. Bruce,
could you clarify this please?

     * MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing; return value of MOVE/FETCH 1/0
       varies based on the current offset in the cursor

This entry is plainly wrong:

     * Cause FETCH 1 to return the current cursor row, or zero if at
       beginning/end of cursor, per SQL spec (Bruce)

FETCH 0 is what actually returns the current cursor row, and returning
"zero" when a row value is expected wouldn't make much sense. I've
changed it to just say:

     * Cause FETCH 0 to return the current cursor row, per SQL spec
(Bruce)

If I've missed some of the intent of the original entry, let me know.

These two entries are duplicates, right?

     * Have SHOW DATESTYLE generate output similar to that used by SET
       DATESTYLE (Tom)
     * Change DATESTYLE to output its value in a more common format
(Tom)

I wasn't sure, so I didn't make this change in the patch.

-Neil

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*** 8,35 ****
   <sect1 id="release-devel">
    <title>Release 7.4</title>
  
- <!--
-   <para>
-    Below is a subset of the changes that have gone into the
-    development branch of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> since
-    version 7.3.  For a complete list of changes, consult the CVS logs.
-   </para>
- 
- Developers: When you add a feature, mention it here.  This avoids
- lossiness when digging out the information from the CVS logs, and
- furthermore it advertises your feature to external parties at the
- earliest possible moment.
-  
- CDATA means the content is "SGML-free", so you can write without
- worries about funny characters.
- -->
- <literallayout><![CDATA[
- ]]></literallayout>
- 
  <sect2><title>Overview</title>
  <para> Major changes in this release:
  <glosslist>
  
  <glossentry> <glossterm> IPv6</glossterm>
  
  <glossdef><para> Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address
--- 8,33 ----
   <sect1 id="release-devel">
    <title>Release 7.4</title>
  
  <sect2><title>Overview</title>
  <para> Major changes in this release:
  <glosslist>
  
+ <glossentry><glossterm> Performance</glossterm>
+ 
+ <glossdef><para> IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient
+ </para>
+ 
+ <para> Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets</para>
+ 
+ <para> New multi-key hash join capability</para>
+ 
+ <para> ANSI joins are now better optimized</para>
+ 
+ <para> Faster and more powerful regular expression code</para>
+ 
+ <para> Function-inlining for simple SQL functions</para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ 
  <glossentry> <glossterm> IPv6</glossterm>
  
  <glossdef><para> Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address
***************
*** 50,57 ****
  
  <glossentry><glossterm> Standards Compliance</glossterm>
  
! <glossdef><para> Implement information schema Support for read-only
! transactions </para>
  
  <para>Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
  </para></glossdef>
--- 48,56 ----
  
  <glossentry><glossterm> Standards Compliance</glossterm>
  
! <glossdef><para>Implement information schema</para>
! 
! <para>Support for read-only transactions </para>
  
  <para>Make cursors comply more closely with the SQL standard
  </para></glossdef>
***************
*** 65,86 ****
  and adds error codes, status information, a binary protocol, error
  reporting verbosity, and cleaner startup packets.</para></glossdef>
  </glossentry>
- 
- <glossentry><glossterm> Performance</glossterm>
- 
- <glossdef><para> IN/NOT IN subqueries now perform as efficiently as
- joins</para>
- 
- <para> Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets</para>
- 
- <para> New multi-key hash join capability</para>
- 
- <para> ANSI joins are now better optimized</para>
- 
- <para> Faster and more powerful regular expression code</para>
- 
- <para> Function-inlining for simple SQL functions</para></glossdef>
- </glossentry>
            
  <glossentry><glossterm> Holdable Cursors</glossterm>
  
--- 64,69 ----
***************
*** 116,122 ****
         in client applications and languages.</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> Error message wording has changed substantially in this release,
         and error codes have been added.</para></listitem>
!      <listitem><para> ANSI joins may behave differently because they are now better optimized</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> A number of server variables have been renamed for clarity</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing; return value of MOVE/FETCH 1/0
         varies based on the current offset in the cursor</para></listitem>
--- 99,105 ----
         in client applications and languages.</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> Error message wording has changed substantially in this release,
         and error codes have been added.</para></listitem>
!      <listitem><para> ANSI inner joins may behave differently because they are now better optimized</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> A number of server variables have been renamed for clarity</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para> MOVE/FETCH 0 now does nothing; return value of MOVE/FETCH 1/0
         varies based on the current offset in the cursor</para></listitem>
***************
*** 156,162 ****
  <listitem><para>Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>New code to detect corrupt disk pages;  erase with zero_damaged_pages (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New client/server protocol: faster, no username length limit, allow
    clean exit from COPY (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add transaction status, tableid, columnid to backend protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
--- 139,145 ----
  <listitem><para>Preserve free space information between postmaster restarts (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Set proper schema permissions in initdb (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add start time to pg_stat_activity (Neil)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>New code to detect corrupt disk pages; erase with zero_damaged_pages (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New client/server protocol: faster, no username length limit, allow
    clean exit from COPY (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add transaction status, tableid, columnid to backend protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 185,193 ****
  <listitem><para>Assume WHERE a.x = b.y and b.y = 42 also means a.x = 42 (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow hash/merge joins on complex joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow hash joins for more data types (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Allow join optimization of ANSI joins, disable with join_collapse_limit (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add from_collapse_limit to control conversion of subqueries to joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Use faster regular expression code from TCL (Henry Spencer, Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve backend startup time (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)</para></listitem>
--- 168,176 ----
  <listitem><para>Assume WHERE a.x = b.y and b.y = 42 also means a.x = 42 (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow hash/merge joins on complex joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow hash joins for more data types (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Allow join optimization of ANSI inner joins, disable with join_collapse_limit (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add from_collapse_limit to control conversion of subqueries to joins (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Use faster and more powerful regular expression code from TCL (Henry Spencer, Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Use bit-mapped relation sets in the optimizer (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve backend startup time (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve trigger/constraint performance (Stephan)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 195,200 ****
--- 178,184 ----
  <listitem><para>Fix hash indexes which were broken in rare cases (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve hash index concurrency and speed (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Align shared buffers on 32-byte boundary for copy speed improvement (Manfred Spraul)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The NUMERIC datatype has been reimplemented for better performance (Tom)</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
  
  <sect3><title>Server Configuration</title>
***************
*** 215,223 ****
  <listitem><para>Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>postgres --help-config now dumps server config variables (Aizaz Ahmed)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if possible (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Add new columns in pg_settings: context, type, source , min_val, max_val (Joe)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New pg_hba.conf 'hostnossl' to prevent SSL connections (Jon Jensen)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Remove geqo_random_seed server parameter (Tom)</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
--- 199,207 ----
  <listitem><para>Allow pg_hba.conf to accept netmasks in CIDR format (Andrew Dunstan)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New is_superuser read-only variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New server-side parameter log_error_verbosity to control error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>postgres --describe-config now dumps server config variables (Aizaz Ahmed, Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make default shared_buffers 1000 and max_connections 100, if possible (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Add new columns in pg_settings: context, type, source, min_val, max_val (Joe)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New pg_hba.conf 'hostnossl' to prevent SSL connections (Jon Jensen)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Remove geqo_random_seed server parameter (Tom)</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
***************
*** 262,272 ****
  
  <sect3><title>Utility Commands</title>
  <itemizedlist>
! <listitem><para>Add ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS for temp tables (Gavin)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow cursors outside transactions using WITH HOLD (Neil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make MOVE/FETCH 0 actually move/fetch 0 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Cause FETCH 1 to return the current cursor row, or zero if at
!   beginning/end of cursor, per SQL spec (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have MOVE return 0 or 1 depending on cursor position (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Properly handle SCROLL with cursors, or report an error (Neil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Implement SQL92-compatible FIRST, LAST, ABSOLUTE n, RELATIVE n options
--- 246,255 ----
  
  <sect3><title>Utility Commands</title>
  <itemizedlist>
! <listitem><para>Add ON COMMIT clause to CREATE TABLE for temp tables (Gavin)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow cursors outside transactions using WITH HOLD (Neil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make MOVE/FETCH 0 actually move/fetch 0 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Cause FETCH 0 to return the current cursor row, per SQL spec (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have MOVE return 0 or 1 depending on cursor position (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Properly handle SCROLL with cursors, or report an error (Neil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Implement SQL92-compatible FIRST, LAST, ABSOLUTE n, RELATIVE n options
***************
*** 295,301 ****
    CHECK constraints (Christopher)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve VACUUM performance on indexes by reducing WAL traffic (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow pg_ctl to better handle non-standard ports (Greg)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Functional indexes now support indexes on column expressions (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Syntax errors now reported as 'syntax error' rather than 'parse error' (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have SHOW TRANSACTION_ISOLATION match input to SET TRANSACTION_ISOLATION (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on non-local database generate a warning (Rod)</para></listitem>
--- 278,284 ----
    CHECK constraints (Christopher)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve VACUUM performance on indexes by reducing WAL traffic (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow pg_ctl to better handle non-standard ports (Greg)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Functional indexes have been generalized into expressional indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Syntax errors now reported as 'syntax error' rather than 'parse error' (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have SHOW TRANSACTION_ISOLATION match input to SET TRANSACTION_ISOLATION (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on non-local database generate a warning (Rod)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 303,308 ****
--- 286,292 ----
  <listitem><para>Allow REINDEX to reliably reindex non-shared system catalog indexes (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>pg_dump --use-set-session-authorization and --no-reconnect now do nothing,
    all dumps use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Long options for <application>pg_dump</application> are now available on all platforms</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
  
  
***************
*** 338,344 ****
  <listitem><para>Allow CIDR data type to be cast to text (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow the creation of special LIKE indexes for non-C locales (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Disallow invalid timezone names (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Trim trailing spaces when CHAR() data is cast to VARCHAR or TEXT (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make FLOAT(p) measure the precision p in bits, not decimal digits (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add IPv6 support to the inet and cidr data types (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add family() function to report whether address is IPv4 or IPv6 (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
--- 322,328 ----
  <listitem><para>Allow CIDR data type to be cast to text (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow the creation of special LIKE indexes for non-C locales (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Disallow invalid timezone names (Tom)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Trim trailing spaces when CHAR() is cast to VARCHAR or TEXT (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make FLOAT(p) measure the precision p in bits, not decimal digits (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add IPv6 support to the inet and cidr data types (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add family() function to report whether address is IPv4 or IPv6 (Michael Graff)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 383,389 ****
  <listitem><para>Add "\pset pager always" to always use pager (Greg)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve tab completion (Rod, Ross Reedstrom, Ian Barwick)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Reorder \? help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands (Christopher)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>\encoding now changes based on client_encoding server variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Save edit history into readline history (Ross)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve \d display (Christopher)</para></listitem>
--- 367,373 ----
  <listitem><para>Add "\pset pager always" to always use pager (Greg)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve tab completion (Rod, Ross Reedstrom, Ian Barwick)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Reorder \? help into groupings (Harald Armin Massa, Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Add backslash commands for listing schemas, casts, and conversions (Christopher)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>\encoding now changes based on client_encoding server variable (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Save edit history into readline history (Ross)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve \d display (Christopher)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 391,396 ****
--- 375,381 ----
  <listitem><para>New '\set AUTOCOMMIT off' capability (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New '\set VERBOSITY' to control error detail (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>New  %T prompt string to show transaction status (Tom)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Long options for <application>psql</application> are now available on all platforms</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
  
  <sect3><title>Libpq</title>
***************
*** 441,447 ****
  <listitem><para>Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result files (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Embed LD_LIBRARY_PATH used for build process into binaries (Billy)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>New palloc0 to allocate and clear memory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Fix locking code for s390x CPU (64-bit) (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow OpenBSD to use local ident credentials (William Ahern)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make query plan trees read-only to executor (Tom)</para></listitem>
--- 426,432 ----
  <listitem><para>Prevent need for separate platform geometry regression result files (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improved PPC locking primitive (Reinhard Max)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Embed LD_LIBRARY_PATH used for build process into binaries (Billy)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>New palloc0 function to allocate and clear memory (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Fix locking code for s390x CPU (64-bit) (Tom)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow OpenBSD to use local ident credentials (William Ahern)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Make query plan trees read-only to executor (Tom)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 449,455 ****
  <listitem><para>Allow libpq to compile with Borland C++ compiler (Lester Godwin, Karl Waclawek)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Use our own version of getopt_long() if needed (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Convert administration scripts to C (Peter)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Bison >=1.85 is now required for grammar changes</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Merge documentation into one book (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add Win32 compatibility functions (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow client interfaces to compile under MinGW/Win32 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
--- 434,440 ----
  <listitem><para>Allow libpq to compile with Borland C++ compiler (Lester Godwin, Karl Waclawek)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Use our own version of getopt_long() if needed (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Convert administration scripts to C (Peter)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Bison >= 1.85 is now required to build the PostgreSQL grammar, if building from CVS</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Merge documentation into one book (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add Win32 compatibility functions (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Allow client interfaces to compile under MinGW/Win32 (Bruce)</para></listitem>
***************
*** 457,463 ****
  <listitem><para>Support Intel Linux compiler (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve Linux startup scripts (Slawomir Sudnik, Darko Prenosil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add support for AMD Opteron and Itanium (Jeffrey W. Baker, Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Remove configure --enable-recode</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Generate a compile error if spinlock code is not found (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
  
--- 442,448 ----
  <listitem><para>Support Intel Linux compiler (Peter)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Improve Linux startup scripts (Slawomir Sudnik, Darko Prenosil)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Add support for AMD Opteron and Itanium (Jeffrey W. Baker, Bruce)</para></listitem>
! <listitem><para>Remove --enable-recode option to configure</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Generate a compile error if spinlock code is not found (Bruce)</para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
  
***************
*** 490,550 ****
  
  <sect3> <title> Other Uncategorized</title> 
  <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><function>EXTRACT(TIMEZONE)</function> and <command>SET/SHOW
-        TIMEZONE </command> now follow SQL sign convention
-   (positive = east of UTC)</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para><command>DATESTYLE</command> can now be set to DMY, YMD, or MDY to specify input field order</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Input date order must now be YYYY-MM-DD (with 4-digit
        year) or match <envar>DATESTYLE</envar></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Output of <command>SHOW DATESTYLE</command> is now in the same
-       format accepted by <command>SET DATESTYLE</command></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>PL/Python is now an untrusted language, and is renamed
-       to <function>plpythonu</function></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Precision in <function> FLOAT(p)</function> is now interpreted as bits, not decimal digits</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Functional indexes have been generalized into expressional indexes</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><function>CHAR(n)</function> to <function>TEXT</function> conversion automatically strips trailing blanks</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Pattern matching operations can use indexes regardless of locale</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>New frontend/backend protocol supports many long-requested features</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><command>SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF</command> is no longer
-       supported; psql has an <envar>AUTOCOMMIT</envar> variable</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Reimplementation of NUMERIC datatype for more speed</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>New regular expression package, many more regexp features (most of Perl5)</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Can now do <command> EXPLAIN</command> ... <command>EXECUTE</command> to see plan used for a prepared query</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Explicit <command>JOIN</command>s no longer constrain query
-       plan, unless <command>JOIN_COLLAPSE_LIMIT = 1</command></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Performance of <command>foo IN (SELECT ...)</command> queries has been considerably improved</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><command>FETCH 0</command> now re-fetches cursor's current row, per SQL spec</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Revised executor state representation; plan trees are read-only to executor now</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Information schema</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Domains now support <command>CHECK</command> constraints</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><application>psql</application> backslash commands for listing conversions, casts, and schemas</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><command>TRUNCATE TABLE</command> is transaction-safe</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><command>CLUSTER</command> can re-cluster a previously clustered table, or all such tables</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Statement-level triggers</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>System can use either hash- or sort-based strategy for grouped aggregation</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><command>ON COMMIT</command> options for temp tables</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>extra_float_digits option allows <application>pg_dump</application> to dump float data accurately</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Long options for <application>psql</application> and
- 	<application>pg_dump</application> are now available on all platforms</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Read-only transactions</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Object owners can allow grantees to grant the
-        privilege to others (grant option)</para></listitem>
- 
- <listitem><para> Added <filename>contrib</filename> module for
- <application> pg_autovacuum </application> which monitors inserts and
- deletes, and does <command>ANALYZE</command> or <command> VACUUM
- ANALYZE </command> when quantities exceed specified
- thresholds.</para></listitem>
- 
  </itemizedlist></sect3>
- 
  </sect2>
- 
  </sect1>
  
- 
    <sect1 id="release-7-3-4">
     <title>Release 7.3.4</title>
  
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