firebird-mirror/CHANGELOG.md

v4.0 Alpha 1 (unreleased)

New features

• CORE-5568: SQL SECURITY feature
  Reference(s): /doc/sql.extentions/README.sql_security
  Contributor(s): Roman Simakov

• CORE-5525: Create high-precision floating point datatype named DECFLOAT
  Reference(s): /doc/sql.extentions/README.data_types
  Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff

• CORE-5488: Timeouts for running SQL statements and idle connections
  Reference(s): /doc/README.session_idle_timeouts, /doc/README.statement_timeouts
  Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun

• CORE-5463: Support DEFAULT context value in INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE and UPDATE OR INSERT statements
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5449: Support GENERATED ALWAYS identity columns and OVERRIDE clause
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5346: Named windows
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5343: Allow particular DBA privileges to be transferred to regular users
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions, doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl
  Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff

• CORE-3647: Frames for window functions
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-2762: New built-in function to check whether some role is implicitly active
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.cumulative_roles
  Contributor(s): Roman Simakov

• CORE-1815: Ability to grant role to another role
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.cumulative_roles
  Contributor(s): Roman Simakov

• CORE-1688: More ANSI SQL:2003 window functions (PERCENK_RANK, CUME_DIST, NTILE)
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions
  Contributor(s): Hajime Nakagami, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-751: Implicitly active roles (and their permissions summarized)
  Contributor(s): Roman Simakov

Improvements

• CORE-5431: Support for DROP IDENTITY clause
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5430: Support for INCREMENT option in identity columns
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5119: Support autocommit mode in SET TRANSACTION statement
  Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov

• CORE-5064: Add datatypes (VAR)BINARY(n) and BINARY VARYING(n) as aliases for (VAR)CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET OCTETS
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-2557: Grants on MON$ tables
  Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff

• CORE-2216: NBackup as online dump
  Contributor(s): Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun

• CORE-2192: Extend maximum database page size to 32KB
  Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov

• CORE-2040: Allow exception name and possibly exception text to be determined within a "WHEN ANY" error handling block
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.context_variables
  Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov

• CORE-1132: Exception context in PSQL exception handlers
  Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.context_variables
  Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov

• CORE-749: Increase maximum length of object names to 63 characters
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

Bugfixes

• CORE-5545: Wrong syntax with CREATE TRIGGER ... ON used with POSITION
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5454: INSERT into updatable view without explicit field list failed
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5408: Result of boolean expression can not be concatenated with string literal
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5404: Inconsistent column/line references when PSQL definitions return errors
  Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes

• CORE-5237: Invalid handling of dot (.) and asterisk (*) in config file name and path for include clause
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-5223: Double dots are prohibited in file names if access is restricted to a list of directories
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-5141: Field definition allows several NOT NULL clauses
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-4985: Non-privileged user can implicitly count records in a restricted table
  Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov

• CORE-4701: Index and blob garbage collection don't take into accout data in undo log
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-4483: Changed data not visible in WHEN-section if exception occured inside SP that has been called from this code
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov

• CORE-4424: Rollback to wrong savepoint if several exception handlers on the same level are executed
  Contributor(s): Dimitry Sibiryakov