<para>
This improves concurrency and reduces the probability of deadlocks.
- UPDATEs on non-key columns use the new SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock
- type, and foreign key checks use the new SELECT FOR KEY SHARE lock mode.
+ <command>UPDATE</>s on non-key columns use the new <command>SELECT
+ FOR NO KEY UPDATE</> lock type, and foreign key checks use the
+ new <command>SELECT FOR KEY SHARE</> lock mode.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add configuration variable lock_timeout to limit lock wait duration
- (Zoltán Böszörményi)
+ Add configuration variable <varname>lock_timeout</> to limit lock
+ wait duration (Zoltán Böszörményi)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This speeds lock release at statement completion in transactions
- that hold many locks; it is particularly useful for pg_dump.
+ This speeds lock release at statement completion in
+ transactions that hold many locks; it is particularly useful
+ for <application>pg_dump</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add SP-GiST support for range data types (Alexander Korotkov)
+ Add <type>SP-GiST</> support for range data types (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow unlogged GiST indexes (Jeevan Chalke)
+ Allow unlogged <type>GiST</> indexes (Jeevan Chalke)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add COPY FREEZE option to avoid the overhead of later marking
- tuples as committed (Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis)
+ Add <command>COPY FREEZE</> option to avoid the overhead of later
+ marking tuples as committed (Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of NUMERIC calculations (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+ Improve performance of <type>NUMERIC</> calculations (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve grouping of sessions waiting for commit_delay (Peter
- Geoghegan)
+ Improve grouping of sessions waiting for <varname>commit_delay</>
+ (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
<para>
- This improves the usefulness and behavior of commit_delay.
- BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
+ This improves the usefulness and behavior of
+ <varname>commit_delay</>. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Users who have set work_mem based on the previous behavior should
- revisit that setting.
+ Users who have set <varname>work_mem</> based on the previous
+ behavior should revisit that setting.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ... ON COMMIT
- DELETE ROWS clause by only issuing delete if the temporary table
- was accessed (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Improve performance of the <command>CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE
+ ... ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS</> clause by only issuing delete if
+ the temporary table was accessed (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow pg_terminate_backend() to terminate other backends with
- the same role (Dan Farina)
+ Allow <function>pg_terminate_backend()</> to terminate other
+ backends with the same role (Dan Farina)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve LDAP error reporting and documentation (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Improve <acronym>LDAP</> error reporting and documentation
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for LDAP authentication to be specified in URL format
- (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add support for <acronym>LDAP</> authentication to be specified
+ in <acronym>URL</> format (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change the ssl_ciphers parameter to start with DEFAULT, rather
- than ALL, then remove insecure ciphers (Magnus Hagander)
+ Change the <varname>ssl_ciphers</> parameter to start with
+ <literal>DEFAULT</>, rather than <literal>ALL</>, then remove
+ insecure ciphers (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
- It is assumed DEFAULT is more appropriate cipher set.
+ It is assumed <literal>DEFAULT</> is more appropriate cipher set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Parse/load pg_ident.conf once, not during each connection (Amit
- Kapila)
+ Parse/load <filename>pg_ident.conf</> once, not during each
+ connection (Amit Kapila)
</para>
<para>
- This is similar to how pg_hba.conf is processed.
+ This is similar to how <filename>pg_hba.conf</> is processed.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Instead, on Unix-like systems, mmap() is used for shared memory.
- This eliminates the requirement of increasing System V shared
- memory kernel parameters.
+ Instead, on Unix-like systems, <function>mmap()</> is used for
+ shared memory. This eliminates the requirement of increasing
+ System V shared memory kernel parameters.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This renames configuration parameter unix_socket_directory to
- unix_socket_directories, which accepts a list of directories.
+ This renames configuration parameter
+ <varname>unix_socket_directory</> to
+ <varname>unix_socket_directories</>, which accepts a list of
+ directories.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- The directory is specified as include_dir in server configuration file.
+ The directory is specified as <varname>include_dir</> in server
+ configuration file.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Increase the maximum initdb-configured value for shared_buffers
- to 128MB (Robert Haas)
+ Increase the maximum initdb-configured value for
+ <varname>shared_buffers</> to 128MB (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
This is the maximum value initdb attempts to set in
- postgresql.conf; the previous value was 32MB.
+ <filename>postgresql.conf</>; the previous value was 32MB.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Require superuser privileges to set commit_delay because it
- can now potentially delay other sessions (Simon Riggs)
+ Require superuser privileges to set <varname>commit_delay</>
+ because it can now potentially delay other sessions (Simon Riggs)
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove the external PID file on postmaster exit (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Remove the external <acronym>PID</> file on postmaster exit
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have "session id" in log_line_prefix (%c) always output four hex
- digits after the period (Bruce Momjian) COMPATIBILITY
+ Have <quote>session id</> (<literal>%c</>) in
+ <varname>log_line_prefix</> always output four hex digits after
+ the period (Bruce Momjian) COMPATIBILITY
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow a streaming replication standbys to follow a timeline switch (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Allow a streaming replication standbys to follow a timeline switch
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This allows streaming standbys to feed from newly-promoted slaves.
- Previously slaves required access to a WAL archive directory to
+ Previously slaves required access to a <acronym>WAL</> archive directory to
accomplish this.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add SQL functions pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time() (Gilles Darold)
+ Add <acronym>SQL</> functions <function>pg_backup_in_progress()</>
+ and <function>pg_backup_start_time()</> (Gilles Darold)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of streaming log shipping with
- synchronous_commit disabled (Andres Freund)
+ <varname>synchronous_commit</> disabled (Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the last checkpoint's redo location to pg_controldata's output
- (Fujii Masao)
+ Add the last checkpoint's redo location to
+ <application>pg_controldata</>'s output (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
- This information is useful for determining the WAL files needed for
- restore.
+ This information is useful for determining the <acronym>WAL</>
+ files needed for restore.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow tooling like pg_receivexlog to run on computers with different
+ Allow tooling like <application>pg_receivexlog</> to run on computers with different
architectures (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_basebackup --write-recovery-conf output a minimal
- recovery.conf (Zoltán Böszörményi, Magnus Hagander)
+ Have <application>pg_basebackup</> <option>--write-recovery-conf</>
+ output a minimal <filename>recovery.conf</> (Zoltán
+ Böszörményi, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow pg_receivexlog and pg_basebackup -X to handle streaming
- timeline switches (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Allow <application>pg_receivexlog</> and
+ <application>pg_basebackup</> <option>--xlog-method</> to handle
+ streaming timeline switches (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add wal_receiver_timeout parameter to control the WAL receiver
- timeout (Amit Kapila)
+ Add <varname>wal_receiver_timeout</> parameter to control the <acronym>WAL</>
+ receiver timeout (Amit Kapila)
</para>
<para>
This allows more rapid detection of connection failure. No longer set
- wal_receiver_status_interval?
+ <varname>wal_receiver_status_interval</>?
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Rename replication_timeout to wal_sender_timeout (Amit Kapila)
+ Rename <varname>replication_timeout</> to <varname>wal_sender_timeout</> (Amit Kapila)
</para>
<para>
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
- This setting controls the WAL sender timeout.
+ This setting controls the <acronym>WAL</> sender timeout.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect4>
- <title>Write-Ahead Log (WAL)</title>
+ <title>Write-Ahead Log (<acronym>WAL</>)</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Store WAL in a continuous stream, rather than skipping the last
- 16MB segment every 4GB (Heikki Linnakangas) BACKWARD COMPATIBLE BREAK
+ Store <acronym>WAL</> in a continuous stream, rather than skipping
+ the last 16MB segment every 4GB (Heikki Linnakangas) BACKWARD
+ COMPATIBLE BREAK
</para>
<para>
- Previously, WAL files ending in FF were not used. If you have
- WAL backup or restore scripts that took that skipping into account,
- they need to be adjusted.
+ Previously, <acronym>WAL</> files ending in <literal>FF</> were
+ not used. If you have <acronym>WAL</> backup or restore scripts
+ that took that skipping into account, they need to be adjusted.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change the WAL record format to allow splitting the record header
+ Change the <acronym>WAL</> record format to allow splitting the record header
across pages (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Implement SQL-standard LATERAL for FROM-clause subqueries and
- function calls (Tom Lane)
+ Implement <acronym>SQL</>-standard <literal>LATERAL</> for
+ <literal>FROM</>-clause subqueries and function calls (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- This is useful in allowing FROM subqueries and functions to reference
- output from tables in the FROM clause. The LATERAL keyword is optional
- for functions.
+ This is useful in allowing <literal>FROM</> subqueries and
+ functions to reference output from tables in the <literal>FROM</>
+ clause. The <literal>LATERAL</> keyword is optional for functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for piping COPY and psql \copy to/from an external program (Etsuro
- Fujita)
+ Add support for piping <command>COPY</> and <application>psql</>
+ <command>\copy</> to/from an external program (Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Only CREATE SCHEMA ... IF NOT EXISTS? If so, remove it.
+ Only <command>CREATE SCHEMA ... IF NOT EXISTS</>? If so, remove it.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow a multi-row VALUES clause in rules to reference OLD/NEW (Tom Lane)
+ Allow a multi-row <literal>VALUES</> clause in rules to reference
+ <literal>OLD</>/<literal>NEW</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add CREATE SCHEMA ... IF NOT EXISTS clause (Fabrízio de
+ Add <command>CREATE SCHEMA ... IF NOT EXISTS</> clause (Fabrízio de
Royes Mello)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have REASSIGN OWNED also change ownership of shared objects (Álvaro
- Herrera)
+ Have <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> also change ownership of shared
+ objects (Álvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- These messages now appear with DEBUG1-level output.
+ These messages now appear with <literal>DEBUG1</>-level output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS to succeed for a non-existent schema
- (Bruce Momjian)
+ Allow <command>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS</> to succeed for a
+ non-existent schema (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT foreign key actions to affect
- all referenced columns, not just those referenced in the UPDATE
- (Tom Lane)
+ Change <literal>ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT</> foreign key
+ actions to affect all referenced columns, not just those referenced
+ in the <command>UPDATE</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- Previously only columns referenced in the UPDATE were set to null or DEFAULT.
- BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY CHANGE
+ Previously only columns referenced in the <command>UPDATE</> were
+ set to null or <literal>DEFAULT</>. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY CHANGE
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Internally store default foreign key matches (non-FULL, non-PARTIAL) as "simple" (Tom Lane)
+ Internally store default foreign key matches (non-<literal>FULL</>,
+ non-<literal>PARTIAL</>) as <quote>simple</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These were previously stored as "<unspecified>".
This changes the value stored in system column
- pg_constraint.confmatchtype. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY CHANGE
+ <structname>pg_constraint.confmatchtype</>. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
+ CHANGE
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the ALTER TYPE ... IF NOT EXISTS clause when adding enumerated type labels (Andrew
- Dunstan)
+ Add the <command>ALTER TYPE ... IF NOT EXISTS</> clause when
+ adding enumerated type labels (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add ALTER ROLE ALL SET to add settings to all users (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add <command>ALTER ROLE ALL SET</> to add settings to all users
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- This allows settings to apply to all users in all databases. ALTER
- DATABASE SET already allowed addition of settings for all users in a
- single database. postgresql.conf has a similar effect.
+ This allows settings to apply to all users in all
+ databases. <command>ALTER DATABASE SET</> already allowed
+ addition of settings for all users in a single database.
+ <filename>postgresql.conf</> has a similar effect.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for ALTER RULE ... RENAME (Ali Dar)
+ Add support for <command>ALTER RULE ... RENAME</> (Ali Dar)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Simple views that reference some or all columns from a single base table
are now updatable by default. More complex views can be made updatable
- using INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules.
+ using <literal>INSTEAD OF</> triggers or <literal>INSTEAD</> rules.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW syntax (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add <command>CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW</> syntax (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- Internally this is translated into CREATE VIEW ... WITH RECURSIVE.
+ Internally this is translated into <command>CREATE VIEW ... WITH
+ RECURSIVE</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow text timezone designations, e.g. "America/Chicago" when using the
- ISO "T" timestamptz format (Bruce Momjian)
+ Allow text timezone designations, e.g. <quote>America/Chicago</>
+ when using the <acronym>ISO</> <quote>T</> timestamptz format (Bruce
+ Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect4>
- <title>JSON</title>
+ <title><type>JSON</></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add operators and functions to extract values from JSON data strings
+ Add operators and functions to extract values from <type>JSON</> data strings
(Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow JSON data strings to be converted into records (Andrew Dunstan)
+ Allow <type>JSON</> data strings to be converted into records (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add functions to convert values, records, and hstore data to JSON (Andrew Dunstan)
+ Add functions to convert values, records, and hstore data to
+ <type>JSON</> (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add array_remove() and array_replace() functions (Marco Nenciarini, Gabriele Bartolini)
+ Add <function>array_remove()</> and <function>array_replace()</>
+ functions (Marco Nenciarini, Gabriele Bartolini)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow concat() and format() to properly expand VARIADIC-labeled
- arguments (Pavel Stehule)
+ Allow <function>concat()</> and <function>format()</> to properly
+ expand <literal>VARIADIC</>-labeled arguments (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve format() to handle field width and left/right alignment
- (Pavel Stehule)
+ Improve <function>format()</> to handle field width and left/right
+ alignment (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have to_char(), to_date(), and to_timestamp() properly handle
- negative century designations (CC) (Bruce Momjian)
+ Have <function>to_char()</>, <function>to_date()</>, and
+ <function>to_timestamp()</> properly handle negative century
+ designations (<literal>CC</>) (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- Previously the behavior was either wrong or inconsistent with
- positive/AD handling, e.g. format mask 'IYYY-IW-DY'.
+ Previously the behavior was either wrong or inconsistent
+ with positive/<acronym>AD</> handling, e.g. format mask
+ <quote>IYYY-IW-DY</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have to_date() and to_timestamp() return proper results when mixing
- ISO and Gregorian week/day designations (Bruce Momjian)
+ Have <function>to_date()</> and <function>to_timestamp()</>
+ return proper results when mixing <acronym>ISO</> and Gregorian
+ week/day designations (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Cause pg_get_viewdef() to default to wrapping after every SELECT
- target list and FROM entry (Marko Tiikkaja)
+ Cause <function>pg_get_viewdef()</> to default to wrapping after
+ every <command>SELECT</> target list and <literal>FROM</> entry
+ (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
<para>
- This causes view output, like from pg_dump, to be more narrow.
+ This causes view output, like from <application>pg_dump</>,
+ to be more narrow.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have map_sql_value_to_xml_value() properly expand domains (Pavel
- Stehule)
+ Have <function>map_sql_value_to_xml_value()</> properly expand
+ domains (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Force cached functions to be replanned if the search_path changes (Tom Lane)
+ Force cached functions to be replanned if the <varname>search_path</> changes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously functions already run in the current session ignored
- search_path changes.
+ <varname>search_path</> changes.
(Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow SPI functions to access the number of rows processed by COPY (Pavel
- Stehule)
+ Allow <acronym>SPI</> functions to access the number of rows
+ processed by <command>COPY</> (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow PL/pgSQL to use RETURN with a composite-type expressions (Asif
- Rehman)
+ Allow PL/pgSQL to use <literal>RETURN</> with a composite-type
+ expressions (Asif Rehman)
</para>
<para>
- Previously RETURN could only reference composite-type variables.
+ Previously <literal>RETURN</> could only reference composite-type variables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow PL/pgSQL to access the number of rows processed by COPY (Pavel
- Stehule)
+ Allow PL/pgSQL to access the number of rows processed by
+ <command>COPY</> (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
- The command is GET DIAGNOSTICS x = ROW_COUNT.
+ The command is <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS x = ROW_COUNT</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Handle SPIErrors raised explicitly with PL/Python's RAISE the same as
- as internal SPI errors (Oskari Saarenmaa and Jan Urbanski)
+ Handle <acronym>SPI</> errors raised explicitly with PL/Python's
+ <literal>RAISE</> the same as as internal <acronym>SPI</> errors
+ (Oskari Saarenmaa and Jan Urbanski)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add command-line utility pg_isready to check if the server is ready
- to accept connections (Phil Sorber)
+ Add command-line utility <application>pg_isready</> to check if
+ the server is ready to accept connections (Phil Sorber)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support multiple --table arguments for pg_restore, clusterdb,
- reindexdb, and vacuumdb (Josh Kupershmidt)
+ Support multiple <option>--table</> arguments for
+ <application>pg_restore</>, <application>clusterdb</>,
+ <application>reindexdb</>, and <application>vacuumdb</> (Josh
+ Kupershmidt)
</para>
<para>
- This is similar to the pg_dump --table support.
+ This is similar to the <application>pg_dump</> <option>--table</>
+ support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add -d option to pg_dumpall, pg_basebackup, pg_receivexlog to
- specify the connection string (Amit Kapila)
+ Add <option>--dbname</> option to <application>pg_dumpall</>,
+ <application>pg_basebackup</>, <application>pg_receivexlog</>
+ to specify the connection string (Amit Kapila)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add libpq function PQconninfo() to return connection information
- (Zoltán Böszörményi, Magnus Hagander)
+ Add libpq function <function>PQconninfo()</> to return connection
+ information (Zoltán Böszörményi, Magnus
+ Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Adjust function cost settings so psql tab completion and pattern
- searching is more efficient (Tom Lane)
+ Adjust function cost settings so <application>psql</> tab
+ completion and pattern searching is more efficient (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve psql tab completion (Jeff Janes, Peter Eisentraut)
+ Improve <application>psql</> tab completion (Jeff Janes, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow the psql --single-transaction mode to work when reading from
- standard input (Fabien Coelho, Robert Haas)
+ Allow the <application>psql</> <option>--single-transaction</> mode to work when
+ reading from standard input (Fabien Coelho, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove psql warning when connecting to an older server (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Remove <application>psql</> warning when connecting to an older
+ server (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add psql \watch command to repeatedly execute commands (Will
- Leinweber)
+ Add <application>psql</> <command>\watch</> command to repeatedly
+ execute commands (Will Leinweber)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add psql command \gset to store query results in psql variables
- (Pavel Stehule)
+ Add <application>psql</> command <command>\gset</> to store query
+ results in <application>psql</> variables (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add SSL information to psql's \conninfo command (Alastair Turner)
+ Add <acronym>SSL</> information to <application>psql</>'s
+ <command>\conninfo</> command (Alastair Turner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add "Security" label to psql \df+ output (Jon Erdman)
+ Add "Security" label to <application>psql</> <command>\df+</>
+ output (Jon Erdman)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow psql \l to accept a database name pattern (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Allow <application>psql</> <command>\l</> to accept a database
+ name pattern (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In psql, do not allow \connect to use defaults if there is no active
- connection (Bruce Momjian)
+ In <application>psql</>, do not allow <command>\connect</> to
+ use defaults if there is no active connection (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Properly reset state if psql's "\g file" command failed (Tom Lane)
+ Properly reset state if <application>psql</>'s <quote>\g file</>
+ command failed (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a 'latex-longtable' output format to psql (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add a <literal>latex-longtable</> output format to
+ <application>psql</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a border=3 output mode to the psql 'latex' format (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add a <literal>border=3</> output mode to the <application>psql</>
+ <literal>latex</> format (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In psql tuples-only and expanded modes, no longer output "(No rows)"
- (Peter Eisentraut)
+ In <application>psql</> tuples-only and expanded modes, no longer
+ output <quote>(No rows)</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- In psql, no longer print an empty line for unaligned, expanded
- output for zero rows (Peter Eisentraut)
+ In <application>psql</>, no longer print an empty line for
+ unaligned, expanded output for zero rows (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_dump --jobs to dump in parallel when using directory
- output format (Joachim Wieland)
+ Add <application>pg_dump</> <option>--jobs</> to dump in parallel
+ when using directory output format (Joachim Wieland)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_dump output functions in a predictable order (Joel Jacobson)
+ Have <application>pg_dump</> output functions in a predictable
+ order (Joel Jacobson)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix tar files emitted by pg_dump and pg_basebackup to be POSIX
- conformant (Brian Weaver, Tom Lane)
+ Fix tar files emitted by <application>pg_dump</> and
+ <application>pg_basebackup</> to be <acronym>POSIX</> conformant
+ (Brian Weaver, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add -d/--dbname option to pg_dump, for consistency with other client
- commands (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Add <option>--dbname</> option to <application>pg_dump</>, for
+ consistency with other client commands (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
- This can be disabled by using --nosync.
+ This can be disabled by using <option>--nosync</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add initdb --sync-only option to sync the data directory to durable
+ Add initdb <option>--sync-only</> option to sync the data directory to durable
storage (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- This is used by pg_upgrade.
+ This is used by <application>pg_upgrade</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Create a centralized timeout API (Zoltán Böszörményi)
+ Create a centralized timeout <acronym>API</> (Zoltán
+ Böszörményi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Create libpgcommon and move pg_malloc() and other functions there
- (Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund)
+ Create libpgcommon and move <function>pg_malloc()</> and other
+ functions there (Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add compiler designations to indicate some ereport() and elog()
- calls do not return (Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund, Tom Lane,
- Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Add compiler designations to indicate some <function>ereport()</>
+ and <function>elog()</> calls do not return (Peter Eisentraut,
+ Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow options to be passed to the regression test output comparison
- utility via PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS (Peter Eisentraut)
+ utility via <envar>PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add isolation tests for CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ Add isolation tests for <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</> (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix install-strip on Mac OS X (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Fix install-strip on Mac <productname>OS X</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove configure flag --disable-shared, as it is no longer used (Bruce Momjian)
+ Remove configure flag <option>--disable-shared</>, as it is no
+ longer used (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add emacs macro to match Postgres perltidy formatting (Peter
- Eisentraut)
+ Add emacs macro to match <productname>PostgreSQL</> perltidy
+ formatting (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add Assert() functionality to client-side code for frontend code (Andrew Dunstan)
+ Add <function>Assert()</> functionality to client-side code for
+ frontend code (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change many internal many backend functions to return OIDs rather
+ Change many internal many backend functions to return <type>OID</>s rather
than void (Dimitri Fontaine)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function pg_identify_object() to dump an object in
- machine-readable format (Álvaro Herrera)
+ Add function <function>pg_identify_object()</> to dump an object
+ in machine-readable format (Álvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add post-ALTER-object server hooks (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Add post-<command>ALTER</>-object server hooks (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove src/tool/backend, now that the content is on the Postgres
- wiki (Bruce Momjian)
+ Remove <filename>src/tool/backend</>, now that the content is on
+ the <productname>PostgreSQL</> wiki (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Split out WAL reading as an independent facility (Heikki
- Linnakangas, Andres Freund)
+ Split out <acronym>WAL</> reading as an independent facility
+ (Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Use a 64-bit integer to represent WAL positions (XLogRecPtr)
- instead of two 32-bit integers (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Use a 64-bit integer to represent <acronym>WAL</> positions
+ (<structname>XLogRecPtr</>) instead of two 32-bit integers (Heikki
+ Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
- Generally, tools that need to read the WAL format will need to
- be adjusted.
+ Generally, tools that need to read the <acronym>WAL</> format
+ will need to be adjusted.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow PL/Python on OS X to build against custom versions of Python
- (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Allow PL/Python on <productname>OS X</> to build against custom
+ versions of Python (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a Postgres foreign data wrapper contrib module (Shigeru
- Hanada)
+ Add a <productname>Postgres</> foreign data wrapper contrib module
+ (Shigeru Hanada)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_xlogdump contrib program (Andres Freund)
+ Add <application>pg_xlogdump</> contrib program (Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for indexing of regular-expression searches in
- contrib/pg_trgm (Alexander Korotkov)
+ extension <productname>pg_trgm</> (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve pg_trgm handling of multibyte characters (Tom Lane)
+ Improve <productname>pg_trgm</> handling of multibyte characters (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function to report the size of the GIN pending index insertion
- list (Fujii Masao)
+ Add function to report the size of the <type>GIN</> pending index
+ insertion list (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
- The function is pgstatginindex() in pgstattuple.
+ The function is <function>pgstatginindex()</> in pgstattuple.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have oid2name, pgbench, and vacuumlo set fallback_application_name (Amit Kapila)
+ Have oid2name, pgbench, and vacuumlo set <varname>fallback_application_name</> (Amit Kapila)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve output of pg_test_timing (Bruce Momjian)
+ Improve output of <application>pg_test_timing</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve output of pg_test_fsync (Peter Geoghegan)
+ Improve output of <application>pg_test_fsync</> (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow pg_upgrade --jobs to do parallelism (Bruce Momjian)
+ Allow <application>pg_upgrade</> <option>--jobs</> to do
+ parallelism (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_upgrade create unix-domain sockets in the current directory
- (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
+ Have <application>pg_upgrade</> create unix-domain sockets in
+ the current directory (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have pg_upgrade --check mode properly detect the location of
- non-default socket directories (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
+ Have <application>pg_upgrade</> <option>--check</> mode properly
+ detect the location of non-default socket directories (Bruce
+ Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of pg_upgrade for databases with many tables (Bruce Momjian)
+ Improve performance of <application>pg_upgrade</> for databases
+ with many tables (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Increase pg_upgrade logging content by showing executed command
+ Increase <application>pg_upgrade</> logging content by showing executed command
(Álvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve pg_upgrade's status display during copy/link (Bruce Momjian)
+ Improve <application>pg_upgrade</>'s status display during copy/link (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add --foreign-keys option to pgbench (Jeff Janes)
+ Add <option>--foreign-keys</> option to pgbench (Jeff Janes)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow pgbench to aggregate performance statistics and produce output
- every --aggregate-interval specified seconds (Tomas Vondra)
+ every <option>--aggregate-interval</> specified seconds (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_bench --sampling-rate option to control the percentage of
- transactions logged (Tomas Vondra)
+ Add <application>pg_bench</> <option>--sampling-rate</> option to control the
+ percentage of transactions logged (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pgbench -q mode to print one output line every five seconds (Tomas Vondra)
+ Add pgbench <option>-q</> mode to print one output line every
+ five seconds (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow EPUB-format documentation to be created (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Allow <productname>EPUB</>-format documentation to be created
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update FreeBSD kernel configuration documentation (Brad Davis)
+ Update <productname>FreeBSD</> kernel configuration documentation (Brad Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve WINDOW function documentation (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
+ Improve <literal>WINDOW</> function documentation (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add instructions for setting up the documentation tool chain on
- Mac OS X (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Mac <productname>OS X</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve commit_delay documentation (Peter Geoghegan)
+ Improve <varname>commit_delay</> documentation (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
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