pkgsrc/databases/postgresql82-plpython/DESCR
adam 1b3128868d Changes 8.2.0:
* Query language enhancements including "INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
  RETURNING", multirow VALUES lists, and optional target-table alias
  in "UPDATE"/"DELETE"
* Index creation without blocking concurrent
  "INSERT"/"UPDATE"/"DELETE" operations
* Many query optimization improvements, including support for
  reordering outer joins
* Improved sorting performance with lower memory usage
* More efficient locking with better concurrency
* More efficient vacuuming
* Easier administration of warm standby servers
* New FILLFACTOR support for tables and indexes
* Monitoring, logging, and performance tuning additions
* More control over creating and dropping objects
* Table inheritance relationships can be defined for and removed from
  pre-existing tables
* "COPY TO" can copy the output of an arbitrary "SELECT" statement
* Array improvements, including nulls in arrays
* Aggregate-function improvements, including multiple-input
  aggregates and SQL:2003 statistical functions
* Many "contrib/" improvements
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PL/Python allows you to write functions in the Python programming
language that may be used in SQL queries as if they were built into
Postgres. The PL/Python intepreter is a full Python interpreter.
PL/Python is currently only available as an "untrusted" language
(meaning it does not offer any way of restricting what users can do
in it). It has therefore been named "plpythonu". The trusted variant
plpython may become available again in future, if a new secure execution
mechanism is developed in Python.