19 KiB
v4.0 Beta 1 (unreleased)
New features
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CORE-5953: Statement level read consistency in read-committed transactions
Reference(s): /doc/README.read_consistency.md
Contributor(s): Nickolay Samofatov, Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5951: Add support of batch insert and update operations
Reference(s): /doc/Using_OO_API.html
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5808: Support backup of encrypted databases
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5768: Implement FILTER-clause for aggregate functions
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5620: Add builtin functions FIRST_DAY and LAST_DAY
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extentions/README.builtin_functions
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5536: Connection compressed/encrypted status in MON$ATTACHMENTS table
Reference(s): /doc/README.monitoring_tables
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
Improvements
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CORE-5954: Garbage collection in intermediate record versions
Reference(s): /doc/README.read_consistency.md
Contributor(s): Nickolay Samofatov, Roman Simakov, Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5952: Enhance restore performance of GBAK using batch API
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5948: Make WIN_SSPI plugin produce keys for wirecrypt plugin
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5928: Make it possible for AuthClient plugin to access authentication block from DPB
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5921: Provide information about Global Commit Number, Commit Number of currently used database snapshot (if any) and Commit Numbers assigned to the committed transactions
Reference(s): /doc/sql.extentions/README.builtin_functions
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5887: Allow the use of management statements in PSQL blocks
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5883: Services version 1 cleanup
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5874: Provide name of read-only column incorrectly referenced in UPDATE ... SET xxx
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5779: Add support for riscv64
Contributor(s): Richard Jones -
CORE-5770: User who is allowed to manage other users must have this ability WITHOUT need to grant him RDB$ADMIN role
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5741: Replace word "fixing" with "adjusting" in GBAK output
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5718: Make TempCacheLimit setting database-wise
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5705: Store precision of DECFLOAT in RDB$FIELDS
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5647: Increase number of formats/versions of views from 255 to 32K
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5606: Add expression index name to exception message if computation failed
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-4529: Allow to use index when GROUP BY on field which has DESCENDING index
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-4409: Enhancement in precision of calculations with NUMERIC/DECIMAL
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
Bugfixes
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CORE-5950: Deadlock when attaching to bugchecked database
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5949: Bugcheck could happen when read-only database with non-zero linger is set to read-write mode
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5943: Server crashes preparing a query with both DISTINCT/ORDER BY and non-field expression in the select list
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov -
CORE-5936: Firebird server segfaults in the end of database backup
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5935: Bugcheck 165 (cannot find tip page)
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun -
CORE-5934: gpre_boot fails to link using cmake, undefined reference 'dladdr' and 'dlerror'
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5927: With some non-standard authentication plugins providing correct crypt key wire anyway remains not encrypted
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5926: Attempt to create mapping with non-ASCII user name which is encoded in SINGLE-BYTE codepage (WIN1251) leads to 'Malformed string' error
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5918: Memory pool statistics is not accurate
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5907: Regression: can not launch trace if its 'database' section contains regexp pattern with curvy brackets to enclose quantifier
Note(s): Backported into v3.0.5
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5896: NOT NULL constraint is not synchronized after rename column
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5871: Incorrect caching of the subquery result (procedure call) in independent queries
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5862: Varchar computed column without explicit type does not populate RDB$CHARACTER_LENGTH
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5861: GRANT OPTION is not checked for new object
Contributor(s): Roman Simakov -
CORE-5728: Field subtype of DEC_FIXED columns not returned by isc_info_sql_sub_type
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5726: Unclear error message when inserting value exceeding max of DEC_FIXED decimal
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5710: Datatype declaration DECFLOAT without precision should use a default precision
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5700: DECFLOAT underflow should yield zero instead of an error
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5699: DECFLOAT should not throw exceptions when +/-NaN, +/-sNaN and +/-Infinity is used in comparisons
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5657: Various UDF-related security vulnerabilities
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5646: Parse error when compiling a statement causes memory leak until attachment is disconnected
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5639: Mapping rule using WIN_SSPI plugin: windows user group conversion to firebird role does not work
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5637: string right truncation on restore of security db
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5611: Higher memory consumption for prepared statements
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5593: System function RDB$ROLE_IN_USE cannot take long role names
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5518: System function RDB$ROLE_IN_USE cannot take long role names
Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff -
CORE-5480: SUBSTRING startposition smaller than 1 should be allowed
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-1592: Altering procedure parameters can lead to unrestorable database
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
v4.0 Alpha 1 (23-Aug-2017)
New features
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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
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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-5380: Allow subroutines to call others subroutines and themself recursively
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.subroutines.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
CORE-5238: Replace xinetd support with the native listener Contributor(s): Alex Peshkoff
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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-4436: Support for different hash algorithms in HASH system function
Reference(s): doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes -
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
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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