<listitem>
<para>
- Change pg_last_xlog_receive_location() so it never moves
+ Change <function>pg_last_xlog_receive_location()</> so it never moves
backwards (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
- Previously pg_last_xlog_receive_location() could move backward
+ Previously <function>pg_last_xlog_receive_location()</> could move backward
when streaming replication is restarted.
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
For example, disallow composite_name.text and text(composite_name).
- CAST and '::' are still available for casting.
+ <literal>CAST</> and <literal>::</> are still available for casting.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Previously this returned NULL.
+ Previously this returned <literal>NULL</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change string_to_array so a NULL separator splits the string
+ Change string_to_array so a <literal>NULL</> separator splits the string
into characters (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
- Previously this returned NULL.
+ Previously this returned <literal>NULL</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Require superuser or CREATEROLE permissions to set role
+ Require superuser or <literal>CREATEROLE</> permissions to set role
comments (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change PL/pgSQL's RAISE command without parameters to be
+ Change PL/pgSQL's <literal>RAISE</> command without parameters to be
catchable by the attached exception block (Piyush Newe)
</para>
<para>
- Previously RAISE in a code block always scoped to an attached
+ Previously <literal>RAISE</> in a code block always scoped to an attached
exception block, so it was uncatchable at the same scope.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_stat_reset() reset all database-level statistics (Tom
+ Have <function>pg_stat_reset()</> reset all database-level statistics (Tom
Lane)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add command-line tool pg_basebackup for creating a new standby
+ Add command-line tool <application>pg_basebackup</> for creating a new standby
server or database backup (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add system view pg_stat_replication which displays activity
+ Add system view <literal>pg_stat_replication</> which displays activity
of WAL sender processes (Itagaki Takahiro, Simon Riggs)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add monitoring function pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp (Fujii
+ Add monitoring function <function>pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()</> (Fujii
Masao)
</para>
</para>
<para>
- The new functions are pg_xlog_replay_pause(),
- pg_xlog_replay_resume(), and the status function
- pg_is_xlog_replay_paused().
+ The new functions are <function>pg_xlog_replay_pause()</>,
+ <function>pg_xlog_replay_resume()</>, and the status function
+ <function>pg_is_xlog_replay_paused()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add named restore points for recovery which can be specified
- in recovery.conf (Jaime Casanova)
+ in <filename>recovery.conf</> (Jaime Casanova)
</para>
<para>
- The function pg_create_restore_point() allows recovery targets
+ The function <function>pg_create_restore_point()</> allows recovery targets
to be named for later designation during recovery.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add recovery.conf setting pause_at_recovery_target to pause
+ Add <filename>recovery.conf</> setting pause_at_recovery_target to pause
recovery at target (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow recovery.conf to use the same quoting behavior as
- postgresql.conf (Dimitri Fontaine)
+ Allow <filename>recovery.conf</> to use the same quoting behavior as
+ <filename>postgresql.conf</> (Dimitri Fontaine)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN in hash joins (Tom Lane)
+ Support <literal>RIGHT</> and <literal>FULL OUTER JOIN</> in hash joins (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously hash joins could not be considered for outer joins;
this provides additional query optimization possibilities.
- **What about LEFT joins?
+ **What about <literal>LEFT</> joins?
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This allows optimization of ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses in
+ This allows optimization of <literal>ORDER BY</> and <literal>LIMIT</> clauses in
inheritance table queries.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow optimizations of MIN/MAX for inheritance table queries
+ Allow optimizations of <literal>MIN</>/<literal>MAX</> for inheritance table queries
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support host names and host suffixes (e.g. .example.com) in
- pg_hba.conf (Peter Eisentraut)
+ <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support they keyword 'all' in the host column of pg_hba.conf
+ Support they keyword 'all' in the host column of <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add client_hostname field to pg_stat_activity (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add client_hostname field to <structname>pg_stat_activity</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the pg_stat_database_conflicts system view to show queries
+ Add the <structname>pg_stat_database_conflicts</> system view to show queries
that have been canceled and the reason (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a "conflicts" count to pg_stat_database (Magnus Hagander)
+ Add a "conflicts" count to <structname>pg_stat_database</> (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to pg_stat_bgwriter (Greg
+ Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to <structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</> (Greg
Smith)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow data-modification commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in
- WITH clauses (Marko Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
+ Allow data-modification commands
+ (<command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE)</>
+ in <literal>WITH</> clauses (Marko Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
</para>
<para>
- This allows INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING in WITH clauses to
- pass rows to outer queries.
+ This allows <command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</>
+ <literal>RETURNING</> in <literal>WITH</> clauses to pass rows
+ to outer queries.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow WITH clauses to be fed into INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
- statements (Marko Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
+ Allow <literal>WITH</> clauses to be fed into <command>INSERT</>,
+ <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE </> statements (Marko
+ Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
</para>
<para>
- Specifically, let SELECT query results be feed into INSERT,
- UPDATE, DELETE statements.
+ Specifically, let <command>SELECT</> query results be feed
+ into <command>INSERT</>, <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>
+ statements.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow non-GROUP BY columns in the query target list when the
- primary key is specified in the GROUP BY clause (Peter
+ Allow non- <literal>GROUP BY</> columns in the query target list when the
+ primary key is specified in the <literal>GROUP BY</> clause (Peter
Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow the use of the keyword DISTINCT in UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
+ Allow the use of the keyword <literal>DISTINCT</> in
+ <literal>UNION</>/<literal>INTERSECT</>/<literal>EXCEPT</>
clauses (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- DISTINCT is the default behavior so use of this keyword is
+ <literal>DISTINCT</> is the default behavior so use of this keyword is
redundant.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE (Peter
+ Add <command>ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE</> (Peter
Eisentraut)
</para>
</itemizedlist>
<sect4>
- <title><command>ALTER Object</></title>
+ <title><command>ALTER</> Object</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add RESTRICT/CASCADE to ALTER TYPE operations on typed tables
- (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add <literal>RESTRICT</>/<literal>CASCADE</> to <command>ALTER
+ TYPE</> operations on typed tables (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- This controls ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE cascading
+ This controls <literal>ADD</>/<literal>DROP</>/<literal>ALTER</>/<literal>RENAME ATTRIBUTE</> cascading
behavior.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for more object types in ALTER object ... SET SCHEMA commands (Dimitri Fontaine)
+ Add support for more object types in <command>ALTER ... SET SCHEMA</> commands (Dimitri Fontaine)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS syntax (Robert Haas)
+ Add <command>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS</> syntax (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX (Gurjeet
+ Add <command>ALTER TABLE ... ADD UNIQUE</>/<literal>PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX</> (Gurjeet
Singh)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow ALTER TABLE to add foreign keys without validation (Simon
+ Allow <command>ALTER TABLE</> to add foreign keys without validation (Simon
Riggs)
</para>
<para>
- The new option is called NOT VALID, which can later be modified
- to VALIDATED and validation checks performed.
+ The new option is called <literal>NOT VALID</>, which can later be modified
+ to <literal>VALIDATED</> and validation checks performed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE to avoid table rewrites in
+ Allow <command>ALTER TABLE</> ... <literal>SET DATA TYPE</> to avoid table rewrites in
appropriate cases (Noah Misch, Robert Haas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a SECURITY LABEL command (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Add a <command>SECURITY LABEL</> command (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Make TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY restart sequences transactionally
+ Make <command>TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY</> restart sequences transactionally
(Steve Singer)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM (Hitoshi Harada, Itagaki
+ Add <literal>ENCODING</> option to <command>COPY TO/FROM</> (Hitoshi Harada, Itagaki
Takahiro)
</para>
<para>
- This allows the COPY file encoding to be specified separately
+ This allows the encoding of the <command>COPY</> file to be specified separately
from client encoding.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add bidirectional COPY protocol support (Fujii Masao)
+ Add bidirectional <command>COPY</> protocol support (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have EXPLAIN show the function call expression in VERBOSE
- mode (Tom Lane)
+ Have <command>EXPLAIN</> show the function call expression in <literal>VERBOSE
+ </> mode (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE with rules to use the same snapshot behavior
+ Fix <command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</> with rules to use the same snapshot behavior
as ordinary queries (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
<para>
- Previously EXPLAIN ANALYZE used a slightly different snapshot
+ Previously <command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</> used a slightly different snapshot
for queries involving rules.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add additional details to the output of VACUUM FULL VERBOSE
- and CLUSTER VERBOSE (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ Add additional details to the output of <command>VACUUM FULL VERBOSE</>
+ and <command>CLUSTER VERBOSE</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
<para>
- New information includes the live/dead tuple count and whether
- CLUSTER is using an index to rebuild.
+ New information includes the live and dead tuple count and whether
+ <command>CLUSTER</> is using an index to rebuild.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This allows GIST indexes to quickly return LIMIT-specified
+ This allows GIST indexes to quickly return <literal>LIMIT</>-specified
closest values.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Previously there were rare cases where a REINDEX would be
+ Previously there were rare cases where a <command>REINDEX</> would be
required (you would be informed).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow numeric to use a more compact, 2-byte header in many
+ Allow numeric to use a more compact, two-byte header in many
cases (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
- Previously all numeric values had 4-byte headers; this saves
+ Previously all numeric values had four-byte headers; this saves
on disk storage.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add XML function XMLEXISTS and xpath_exists() functions (Mike
+ Add XML function <literal>XMLEXISTS</> and <function>xpath_exists()</> functions (Mike
Fowler)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add XML functions xml_is_well_formed, xml_is_well_formed_document,
- xml_is_well_formed_content (Mike Fowler)
+ Add XML functions <function>xml_is_well_formed()</>, <function>xml_is_well_formed_document()</>,
+ <function>xml_is_well_formed_content()</> (Mike Fowler)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add new SQL function, format(text), which behaves like C's
- printf() (Pavel Stehule, Robert Haas)
+ <function>printf()</> (Pavel Stehule, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add string functions: concat(), concat_ws(), left(), right(),
- and reverse() (Pavel Stehule)
+ Add string functions: <function>concat()</>, <function>concat_ws()</>, <function>left()</>, <function>right()</>,
+ and <function>reverse()</> (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function pg_read_binary_file() to read binary files
+ Add function <function>pg_read_binary_file()</> to read binary files
(Dimitri Fontaine, Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add single-parameter version of function pg_read_file() to
+ Add single-parameter version of function <function>pg_read_file()</> to
read an entire file (Dimitri Fontaine, Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add three-parameter forms of array_to_string and string_to_array
- for NULL processing control (Pavel Stehule)
+ for <literal>NULL</> processing control (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_describe_object function (Alvaro Herrera)
+ Add <function>pg_describe_object()</> function (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add variable quote_all_identifiers to force the quoting of
- all identifiers in EXPLAIN and system catalog functions like
- pg_get_viewdef() (Robert Haas)
+ all identifiers in <command>EXPLAIN</> and system catalog functions like
+ <function>pg_get_viewdef()</> (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow 'public' as a pseudo-role name in has_table_privilege()
+ Allow 'public' as a pseudo-role name in <function>has_table_privilege()</>
and and related functions (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED error code to report recovery
+ Add <literal>ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED</> error code to report recovery
conflicts due to dropped databases (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow INSTEAD OF triggers on views (Dean Rasheed)
+ Allow <literal>INSTEAD OF</> triggers on views (Dean Rasheed)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Reduce lock levels for CREATE TRIGGER and some ALTER TABLE,
- CREATE RULE actions (Simon Riggs)
+ Reduce lock levels for <command>CREATE TRIGGER</> and some <command>ALTER TABLE</>,
+ <command>CREATE RULE</> actions (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add FOREACH IN ARRAY to plpgsql to allow array interation
+ Add <command>FOREACH IN ARRAY</> to plpgsql to allow array interation
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</para>
<para>
- PL/Python now can return multiple OUT parameters and record
+ PL/Python now can return multiple <literal>OUT</> parameters and record
sets.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow PL/Python to access SQLSTATE exception values (Jan
+ Allow PL/Python to access <literal>SQLSTATE</> exception values (Jan
Urbanski)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Mark createlang/droplang as deprecated now that they use the
+ Mark createlang and droplang as deprecated now that they use the
extension framework (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the \conninfo command to psql, to show current connection
+ Add the \conninfo command to <application>psql</>, to show current connection
information (David Christensen)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow psql's \e and \ef commands to accept a line number to
+ Allow <application>psql</>'s \e and \ef commands to accept a line number to
be used to position the cursor in the editor (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
- This is passed to the editor using the EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH
+ This is passed to the editor using the <literal>EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH</>
environment variable.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add psql command \sf command to show a function's definition
+ Add <application>psql</> command \sf command to show a function's definition
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add system table ("S") option to psql \dn (schemas) (Tom Lane)
+ Add system table ("S") option to <application>psql</> \dn (schemas) (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new psql \dL command \dL to list languages (Fernando Ike)
+ Add new <application>psql</> \dL command \dL to list languages (Fernando Ike)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have psql set the client encoding from the operating system
+ Have <application>psql</> set the client encoding from the operating system
locale by default (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
- This only happens if the PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable
+ This only happens if the <literal>PGCLIENTENCODING</> environment variable
is not set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow tab completion of psql variables (Pavel Stehule)
+ Allow tab completion of <application>psql</> variables (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- More psql tab completion support (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ More <application>psql</> tab completion support (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_dump and pg_dumpall option --quote-all-identifiers to
- force quoting of all identifiers (Robert Haas)
+ Add <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_dumpall</>
+ option <option>--quote-all-identifiers</> to force quoting
+ of all identifiers (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add 'directory' format to pg_dump (Joachim Wieland, Heikki
+ Add 'directory' format to <application>pg_dump</> (Joachim Wieland, Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
- This is internally similar to the 'tar' pg_dump format.
+ This is internally similar to the <literal>tar</> <application>pg_dump</> format.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix pg_ctl so it no longer incorrectly reports that the server
+ Fix <application>pg_ctl</> so it no longer incorrectly reports that the server
is not running (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
Previously this could happen if the server was running but
- pg_ctl could not authenticate.
+ <application>pg_ctl</> could not authenticate.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve pg_ctl start's "wait" mode to handle non-standard port
+ Improve <application>pg_ctl</> start's "wait" mode to handle non-standard port
numbers, non-standard unix-domain socket locations, permission
problems, and stale postmaster lock files (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add 'promote' option to pg_ctl to change a standby server to
+ Add 'promote' option to <application>pg_ctl</> to change a standby server to
primary (Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a libpq connection option client_encoding which behaves
- like the PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable (Heikki
+ like the <literal>PGCLIENTENCODING</> environment variable (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add PQlibVersion() function which returns the libpq library
+ Add <function>PQlibVersion()</> function which returns the libpq library
version (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
- libpq already had PQserverVersion() which returns the server
+ libpq already had <function>PQserverVersion()</> which returns the server
version.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- PostgreSQL already allowed servers to determine the client
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</> already allowed servers to determine the client
user name via Unix-domain sockets.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This is controlled by the new CREATE/ALTER/DROP EXTENSION
- command; this replaces a more manual method of adding features
- to PostgreSQL.
+ This is controlled by the new
+ <command>CREATE</>/<command>ALTER</>/<command>DROP EXTENSION
+ </> command; this replaces a more manual method of adding
+ features to <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Require GNU make 3.80 or newer (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Require GNU <application>make</> 3.80 or newer (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This allows for faster compiles. Also, make -k and make -q
- now work properly. **When was recursive make supported?
+ This allows for faster compiles. Also, make <option>-k</>
+ and make <option>-q</> now work properly. **When was recursive
+ make supported?
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- On Windows, allow pg_ctl to register the service as auto-start
+ On Windows, allow <application>pg_ctl</> to register the service as auto-start
or start-on-demand (Quan Zongliang)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Centralize DML permissions-checking logic (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Centralize data modification permissions-checking logic (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add missing get_{object}_oid functions, for consistency
+ Add missing get_{object}_oid() functions, for consistency
(Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Expose quote_literal_cstr() for backend use (Robert Haas)
+ Expose <function>quote_literal_cstr()</> for backend use (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Regression tests were previously always run with SQL_ASCII
+ Regression tests were previously always run with <literal>SQL_ASCII</>
encoding.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add src/tools/git_changelog to replace cvs2cl and pgcvslog
- (Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
+ Add <filename>src/tools/git_changelog</> to replace
+ <command>cvs2cl</> and <command>pgcvslog</> (Robert Haas,
+ Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add git-external-diff script to src/tools (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add git-external-diff script to <filename>src/tools</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files
- via COPY (Shigeru Hanada)
+ Add <filename>contrib/file_fdw</> foreign-data wrapper for reading files
+ via <command>COPY </>(Shigeru Hanada)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add nearest-neighbor support to contrib/pg_trgm and
- contrib/btree_gist (Teodor Sigaev)
+ Add nearest-neighbor support to <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</> and
+ <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> (Teodor Sigaev)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add contrib/btree_gist support for searching on "not equals"
+ Add <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> support for searching on not equals
(Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow contrib/fuzzystrmatch's levenshtein() function handle
+ Allow <filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</>'s <function>levenshtein()</> function handle
multi-byte characters (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ssl_cipher() and ssl_version() functions to contrib/sslinfo
+ Add <function>ssl_cipher()</> and <function>ssl_version()</> functions to <filename>contrib/sslinfo</>
(Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix contrib/intarray and contrib/hstore to give consistent
+ Fix <filename>contrib/intarray</> and <filename>contrib/hstore</> to give consistent
results with indexed empty arrays (Tom Lane)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- In contrib/xml2, remove arbitrary limit on the number of
- parameter=value pairs that can be handled by xslt_process()
+ In <filename>contrib/xml2</>, remove arbitrary limit on the number of
+ parameter=value pairs that can be handled by <function>xslt_process()</>
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add contrib/sepgsql to interface permission checks with SE-Linux
+ Add <filename>contrib/sepgsql</> to interface permission checks with SE-Linux
(KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
- This uses the new SECURITY LABEL facility.
+ This uses the new <command>SECURITY LABEL</> facility.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for LIKE and ILIKE index searches to contrib/pg_trgm
+ Add support for <literal>LIKE</> and <literal>ILIKE</> index searches to <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</>
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add levenshtein_less_equal function, which is optimized for
+ Add <function>levenshtein_less_equal()</> function, which is optimized for
small distances (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of index lookups on contrib/seg columns
+ Improve performance of index lookups on <filename>contrib/seg columns</>
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
- **Confirm this does not affect pg_upgrade
+ **Confirm this does not affect <application>pg_upgrade</>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of pg_upgrade for databases with many
+ Improve performance of <application>pg_upgrade</> for databases with many
relations (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Move src/tools/test_fsync to contrib/pg_test_fsync (Bruce
+ Move <filename>src/tools/test_fsync</> to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce
Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add O_DIRECT support to contrib/pg_test_fsync (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add <literal>O_DIRECT</> support to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- This matches the use of O_DIRECT by wal_sync_method.
+ This matches the use of <literal>O_DIRECT</> by wal_sync_method.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new tests to contrib/pg_test_fsync (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add new tests to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add documentation for pg_options_to_table() (Josh Berkus)
+ Add documentation for <function>pg_options_to_table()</> (Josh Berkus)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Document that translate() removes characters in "from" that
+ Document that <function>translate()</> removes characters in "from" that
don't have a corresponding "to" character (Josh Kupershmidt)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Merge docs for CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and CREATE TRIGGER
- (Alvaro Herrera)
+ Merge docs for <command>CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER</> and
+ <command>CREATE TRIGGER</>(Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Add new recovery.conf parameter, pause_at_recovery_target,
+ <emphasis>Add new <filename>recovery.conf</> parameter, pause_at_recovery_target,
which defaults to on</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Use the same lexer for recovery.conf that has been used for postgresql.conf
+ Use the same lexer for recovery.conf that has been used for
+ <filename>postgresql.conf</> (Dimitri Fontaine)
</para>
<para>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>psql</title>
+ <title><application>psql</></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <quote>S</quote> option to \dn command in psql
+ Add <quote>S</quote> option to \dn command in <application>psql</>
</para>
<para>
System schemas are now hidden by default by \dn.
<listitem>
<para>
- Add \conninfo command to psql, to show current connection
+ Add \conninfo command to <application>psql</>, to show current connection
info
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Extend psql's \e and \ef commands so that a line number
+ Extend <application>psql</>'s \e and \ef commands so that a line number
can be specified, and the editor's cursor will be initially placed
on that line
</para>
<para>
To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for
- this purpose, there is a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH
+ this purpose, there is a new <application>psql</> variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH
with (at present) no default value.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a \sf (show function) command to psql, for those
+ Add a \sf (show function) command to <application>psql</>, for those
times when you need to look at a function but don't wish to fire up
an editor
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Make psql distinguish between unique indices and unique
+ Make <application>psql</> distinguish between unique indices and unique
constraints in \d printout
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Add a \dL command to psql, to list procedural
+ <emphasis>Add a \dL command to <application>psql</>, to list procedural
languages</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Allow psql to automatically deduce the client encoding from
+ <emphasis>Allow <application>psql</> to automatically deduce the client encoding from
the locale</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
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