Firebird Files

New features

• Parallel (multi-threaded) operations (#1783, [#3374], [#7447])
• Support for partial indices (#7257)
• SKIP LOCKED clause (#7350)
• Inline minor ODS upgrade (#7397)
• Compiled statement cache (#7144)
• PSQL and SQL profiler (#7086)
• Support for WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE in the MERGE statement (#6681)
• Built-in functions UNICODE_CHAR and UNICODE_VAL (#6798)
• RDB$BLOB_UTIL new system package (#281)
• Support multiple rows being returned by DML with the RETURNING clause (#6815)
• Optimize the record-level RLE algorithm for a denser compression of shorter-than-declared strings and sets of subsequent NULLs (#4723)
• More cursor-related details in the plan output (#7441)

More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.

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