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With significant new functionality and performance enhancements, this
release represents a major leap forward for PostgreSQL. This was made
possible by a growing community that has dramatically accelerated the
pace of development. This release adds the following major features:
* Full text search is integrated into the core database system
* Support for the SQL/XML standard, including new operators and an
XML data type
* Enumerated data types (ENUM)
* Arrays of composite types
* Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) data type
* Add control over whether NULLs sort first or last
* Updatable cursors
* Server configuration parameters can now be set on a per-function
basis
* User-defined types can now have type modifiers
* Automatically re-plan cached queries when table definitions change
or statistics are updated
* Numerous improvements in logging and statistics collection
* Support Security Service Provider Interface (SSPI) for
authentication on Windows
* Support multiple concurrent autovacuum processes, and other
autovacuum improvements
* Allow the whole PostgreSQL distribution to be compiled with
Microsoft Visual C++
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PL/Python allows you to write functions in the Python programming
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language that may be used in SQL queries as if they were built into
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Postgres. The PL/Python intepreter is a full Python interpreter.
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PL/Python is currently only available as an "untrusted" language
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(meaning it does not offer any way of restricting what users can do
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in it). It has therefore been named "plpythonu". The trusted variant
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plpython may become available again in future, if a new secure execution
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mechanism is developed in Python.
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