# prefix 1.0~rc2-1

DevFeed: [prefix 1.0~rc2-1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/prefix-1-0-rc2-1-34344.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2009/07/prefix-1.0~rc2-1/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2009-07-09T10:48:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [make](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/make.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [function](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [packaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packaging.md>), [qa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qa.md>), [query](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/query.md>), [text](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/text.md>)

## AI overview

A release note for prefix 1.0~rc2-1 describing Debian packaging work for PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 and the addition of the length(prefix_range) function. It also includes a micro-benchmark for the new function.

## Source excerpt

I've been having problem with building both postgresql-8.3-prefix and postgresql-8.4-prefix debian packages from the same source package, and fixing the packaging issue forced me into modifying the main prefix Makefile. So while reaching rc2, I tried to think about missing pieces easy to add this late in the game: and there's one, that's a function length(prefix_range), so that you don't have to cast to text no more in the following wildspread query: