<para>
Ensure that <link
linkend="functions-xml-processing"><function>xpath()</></link>
- escapes special characters in string values (Florian Pflug,
- Radoslaw Smogura)
+ escapes special characters in string values (Florian Pflug)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Remove <link linkend="hstore">hstore</link>'s <literal>=></>
- operator (Robert Haas, David Wheeler)
+ operator (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Remove the <link
linkend="catalog-pg-tablespace"><structname>spclocation</></link>
- field from <structname>pg_tablespace</> (Magnus Hagander,
- Tom Lane)
+ field from <structname>pg_tablespace</> (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Disable prompting for the user name in <link
linkend="APP-DROPDB"><application>dropdb</></link> unless
- <option>--interactive</> is specified (Peter Eisentraut, Josh
- Kupershmidt)
+ <option>--interactive</> is specified (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
No longer have <link
linkend="APP-CREATEUSER"><application>createuser</></link> prompt
- for settings (Peter Eisentraut, Josh Kupershmidt)
+ for settings (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Create a separate <structname>pg_stat_activity</> column to
- report state information, e.g. idle (Scott Mead, Magnus Hagander,
- Greg Smith)
+ report state information, e.g. idle (Scott Mead, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow queries to retrieve data only from indexes, avoiding heap
- access (Robert Haas, Ibrar Ahmed, Tom Lane)
+ access (Robert Haas, Ibrar Ahmed, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
- lightweight lock mechanism (Robert Haas, Jeff Davis)
+ lightweight lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce overhead of creating virtual transaction id locks (Robert
- Haas, Jeff Davis)
+ Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce overhead for shared invalidation cache messages (Robert
- Haas, Noah Misch)
+ Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of transactions using many savepoints (Simon
- Riggs, Robert Haas) PARTIALLY REVERTED. KEEP?
+ Riggs) PARTIALLY REVERTED. KEEP?
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve GiST box and point index performance by producing better
- trees with less memory allocation overhead (Alexander Korotkov,
- Heikki Linnakangas, Kevin Grittner)
+ trees with less memory allocation overhead (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned
- GiST) index access method (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Tom Lane,
- Robert Haas)
+ GiST) index access method (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Tom
+ Lane, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Take fewer <acronym>MVCC</acronym> snapshots, for performance
- (Robert Haas, Dimitri Fontaine)
+ (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Have the number of clog buffer count scale based on <link
linkend="guc-shared-buffers"><varname>shared_buffers</></link>
- (Robert Haas)
+ (Robert Haas, Simon Riggs, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce the overhead of serializable isolation level locks (Dan
- Ports, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Ports)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve locking performance during group commit (Peter Geoghegan,
- Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Improve locking performance during group commit (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve PowerPC and Itanium spinlock performance (Manabu Ori,
- Tom Lane, Robert Haas)
+ Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Create a dedicated worker process to perform checkpoints (Simon
- Riggs, Dickson Guedes)
+ Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow backends to detect postmaster death via a pipe read failure,
- rather than polling (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ rather than polling (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<link linkend="guc-wal-writer-delay">walwriter</link>, <link
linkend="monitoring-stats">statistics collector</link>, archiver,
and checkpointer to sleep more efficiently during periods of
- inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
+ inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Support <function>MIN</>/<function>MAX</> index optimizations on
- boolean columns (Marti Raudsepp, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ boolean columns (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Collect and use element-frequency statistics for arrays (Alexander
- Korotkov, Noah Misch, Nathan Boley, Tom Lane, Daniele Varrazzo)
+ Korotkov, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow analyze statistics to be collected for foreign tables
- (Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane)
+ (Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Do not assume roles and <literal>samerole</> specified in <link
linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</filename></link>
- include superusers (Andrew Dunstan, Robert Haas)
+ include superusers (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Adjust <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> processing to more
consistently handle token parsing (Brendan Jurd, Álvaro
- Herrera, Pavel Stehule)
+ Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Attempt to log the current query string before a backend crash
- (Marti Raudsepp, <acronym>PDXPUG</>, Tom Lane)
+ (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Make logging of autovacuum I/O activity more verbose (Greg Smith,
- Noah Misch)
+ Make logging of autovacuum I/O activity more verbose (Greg
+ Smith, Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add <link
linkend="functions-admin-backup"><function>pg_xlog_location_diff()</></link>
- to simplify xlog comparisons (Euler Taveira de Oliveira, Fujii
- Masao, Magnus Hagander)
+ to simplify xlog comparisons (Euler Taveira de Oliveira)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support configurable eventlog application names on Windows (MauMau,
- Magnus Hagander)
+ Support configurable eventlog application names on Windows
+ (MauMau, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a deadlock counter to the <structname>pg_stat_database</>
- system view (Magnus Hagander, Jaime Casanova)
+ system view (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Add a <acronym>GUC</acronym> setting <link
linkend="guc-track-io-timing"><varname>track_io_timing</></link>
- to track I/O timings (Ants Aasma, Greg Smith, Robert Haas)
+ to track I/O timings (Ants Aasma, Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
Allow <link
linkend="guc-deadlock-timeout"><varname>deadlock_timeout</></link>
to be set per-session by superusers, not just per-cluster (Noah
- Misch, Shigeru Hanada)
+ Misch)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add <acronym>GUC</acronym> parameter <link
linkend="guc-temp-file-limit"><varname>temp_file_limit</></link>
- to constrain temporary file space usage per session (Mark Kirkwood,
- Cédric Villemain, Tatsuo Ishii)
+ to constrain temporary file space usage per session (Mark Kirkwood)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow multiple errors in <filename>postgresql.conf</filename>
to be reported, rather than just the first one (Alexey Klyukin,
- Andy Colson)
+ Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow a reload of <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> to be
processed by all backends even if there are some settings that
- are invalid for that session (Alexey Klyukin, Andy Colson)
+ are invalid for that session (Alexey Klyukin)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add an <literal>include_if_exists</> facility for configuration
- files (Greg Smith, Euler Taveira de Oliveira)
+ files (Greg Smith)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow streaming replications slaves to serve other slaves (Fujii
- Masao, Simon Riggs)
+ Masao)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add new <link
linkend="guc-synchronous-commit"><varname>synchronous_commit</></link>
- replication mode <literal>remote_write</> (Fujii Masao and
- Simon Riggs)
+ replication mode <literal>remote_write</> (Fujii Masao, Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve columns labels produced by subqueries (Marti Raudsepp,
- Kyotaro Horiugchi)
+ Improve columns labels produced by subqueries (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Cancel queries if clients get disconnected (Florian Pflug, Greg
- Jaskiewicz)
+ Cancel queries if clients get disconnected (Florian Pflug)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
When a row fails a <literal>CHECK</> or <literal>NOT NULL</>
constraint, show the row's contents in errdetail (Jan
- Kundrát, Royce Ausburn, Tom Lane)
+ Kundrát)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Allow <link linkend="ddl-constraints"><literal>CHECK</></link>
constraints to be declared <literal>NOT VALID</> (Álvaro
- Herrera, Thom Brown, Dean Rasheed, Jaime Casanova)
+ Herrera)
</para>
<para>
</sect4>
<sect4>
- <title><link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE"><command>CREATE/ALTER TABLE</></link></title>
+ <title><link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE"><command>CREATE/ALTER
+ TABLE</></link></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Tighten creation of tables in temporary schemas (Robert Haas)
+ Tighten creation of tables in temporary schemas (Robert Haas,
+ Amit Khandekar)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add a <link
linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW"><literal>security_barrier</></link>
- option for views (KaiGai Kohei, Noah Misch)
+ option for views (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for privileges on date types (Peter Eisentraut,
- Yeb Havinga)
+ Add support for privileges on date types (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Check for <command>INSERT</command> privileges in <command>SELECT
- INTO</command> / <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command> (KaiGai Kohei,
- Albe Laurenz)
+ INTO</command> / <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command> (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Make <command>EXPLAIN (BUFFERS)</command> track blocks dirtied
- and written (Robert Haas, Fujii Masao, Greg Smith)
+ and written (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Have <command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</command> report the number of rows
- rejected by filter steps (Marko Tiikkaja, Marc Cousin)
+ rejected by filter steps (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <command>EXPLAIN</command> to avoid timing overhead when
- time values are unwanted (Tomas Vondra, Eric Theise)
+ time values are unwanted (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add <link
linkend="functions-json"><function>array_to_json()</></link>
- and <function>row_to_json()</> (Andrew Dunstan, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ and <function>row_to_json()</> (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for <link linkend="rangetypes">range data types</link>
- (Jeff Davis, Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov)
+ (Jeff Davis, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link linkend="datatype-serial"><type>SMALLSERIAL</></link>
- data type (Mike Pultz, Brar Piening, Josh Kupershmidt)
+ data type (Mike Pultz)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <link linkend="SQL-CREATEDOMAIN">domains</link> to be
- declared <literal>NOT VALID</> (Álvaro Herrera, Thom Brown,
- Dean Rasheed, Jaime Casanova, Peter Eisentraut)
+ declared <literal>NOT VALID</> (Álvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add bitwise "and", "or", and "not" <link
linkend="macaddr-functions-table">operators</link> for the macaddr
- data type (Brendan Jurd, Fujii Masao)
+ data type (Brendan Jurd)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow <function>xpath()</> to return a single-element
<acronym>XML</acronym> array when supplied a scalar value (Florian
- Pflug, Radoslaw Smogura)
+ Pflug)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <acronym>XML</acronym> error handling to be more robust
- (Florian Pflug, Tom Lane, Noah Misch)
+ (Florian Pflug)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow users to cancel queries in user-matching sessions using <link
linkend="functions-admin-signal"><function>pg_cancel_backend()</></link>
- (Magnus Hagander)
+ (Magnus Hagander, Josh Kupershmidt)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Allow <link
linkend="functions-aggregate-table"><function>string_agg()</></link>
- to process bytea values (Pavel Stehule, Peter Eisentraut)
+ to process bytea values (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow importing and exporting of transaction snapshots (Joachim
- Wieland, Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane)
+ Wieland, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Support <link
linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><literal>COLLATION
- FOR</></link> on expressions (Peter Eisentraut, Jaime Casanova)
+ FOR</></link> on expressions (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow per-column foreign data wrapper options and
- <literal>force_not_null</> (Shigeru Hanada, KaiGai Kohei)
+ <literal>force_not_null</> (Shigeru Hanada)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve pretty printing of view definitions (Andrew Dunstan,
- Hitoshi Harada)
+ Improve pretty printing of view definitions (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Have the information schema show default privileges (Peter
- Eisentraut, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow the PL/pgSQL <command>OPEN</> cursor command to supply
- parameters by name (Yeb Havinga, Kevin Grittner, Tom Lane)
+ parameters by name (Yeb Havinga)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a <command>GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS</command> PL/pgSQL command
- to retrieve exception info (Pavel Stehule, Shigeru Hanada,
- David Wheeler)
+ to retrieve exception info (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Output the function signature, not just the name, in PL/pgSQL
- error messages (Pavel Stehule, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Tom Lane)
+ error messages (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add PL/Python <acronym>SPI</acronym> cursor support (Jan
- Urbanski, Steve Singer)
+ Urbanski)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add result metadata functions to PL/Python (Peter Eisentraut,
- Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ Add result metadata functions to PL/Python (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <acronym>SQL</acronym>-language functions to reference
- parameters by name (Matthew Draper, Hitoshi Harada)
+ parameters by name (Matthew Draper)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
options <option>--auth-local</> and <option>--auth-host</>
- (Peter Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule)
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Add <option>--replication</>/<option>--no-replication</> flags to
<link linkend="APP-CREATEUSER"><application>createuser</></link>
- to control replication permission (Fujii Masao, Cédric
- Villemain)
+ to control replication permission (Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <application>psql</> mode to auto-expand output based on the
- display width (Peter Eisentraut, Noah Misch)
+ display width (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Allow inclusion of <application>psql</> files relative to the
directory of the input file from which it was invoked (Gurjeet
- Singh, Josh Kupershmidt)
+ Singh)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a <application>psql</> <command>\setenv</> command to modify
- the environment variables used by child processes (Andrew Dunstan,
- Josh Kupershmidt)
+ the environment variables used by child processes (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allows <application>psql</> to use zero-byte field and record
- separators (Peter Eisentraut, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ separators (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
In <application>psql</> tab completion,
complete <acronym>SQL</acronym> keywords based on
<varname>COMP_KEYWORD_CASE</> setting and the perhaps case of
- the partially-supplied word (Peter Eisentraut, Fujii Masao)
+ the partially-supplied word (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <application>psql</> tab completion support for
- <command>EXECUTE</command> (Andreas Karlsson, Josh Kupershmidt)
+ <command>EXECUTE</command> (Andreas Karlsson)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow tab completion of role references in
<command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command> (Peter
- Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule)
+ Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a <option>--section</> option to <application>pg_dump</>
- and <application>pg_restore</> (Andrew Dunstan, Joachim Wieland)
+ and <application>pg_restore</> (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a row processor <acronym>API</acronym> to libpq for better
- handling of large result sets (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Marko Kreen)
+ handling of large result sets (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Enhance <literal>const</> qualifiers in the libpq functions
PQconnectdbParams, PQconnectStartParams, and PQpingParams (Lionel
- Elie Mamane, Craig Ringer)
+ Elie Mamane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow libpq's <filename>.pgpass</> file to process escaped characters
- in the password field (Robert Haas, Ross Reedstrom)
+ in the password field (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for building with <link linkend="install-windows">MS
- Visual Studio 2010</link> (Brar Piening, Craig Ringer)
+ Visual Studio 2010</link> (Brar Piening)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Enable compiling with the MinGW-w64 32-bit compiler (Lars Kanis,
- Nishiyama Tomoaki)
+ Enable compiling with the MinGW-w64 32-bit compiler (Lars Kanis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve the concurrent transaction regression tests
- (isolationtester) (Noah Misch, Alexander Shulgin)
+ (isolationtester) (Noah Misch)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve flex and bison warning and error reporting (Tom Lane,
- Noah Misch)
+ Improve flex and bison warning and error reporting (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a hook for processing messages due to be sent to the server
- log (Martin Pihlak, Marti Raudsepp)
+ log (Martin Pihlak)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Move <acronym>CRC</acronym> tables to libpgport, and provide them
- in a separate include file (Daniel Farina, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
+ in a separate include file (Daniel Farina)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Improve efficiency of <link linkend="dblink">dblink</link> by
using libpq's new row processor <acronym>API</acronym> (Kyotaro
- Horiguchi, Marko Kreen)
+ Horiguchi)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Implement dry-run mode for <link
linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><application>pg_archivecleanup</></link>
- (Gabriele Bartolini, Josh Kupershmidt)
+ (Gabriele Bartolini)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Have <link linkend="vacuumlo">vacuumlo</link> remove large objects
- in batches, to reduce locking (Tim Lewis, Josh Kupershmidt,
- Tom Lane)
+ in batches, to reduce locking (Tim Lewis, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <application>pg_stat_statements</> to aggregate similar
- queries (Peter Geoghegan, Daniel Farina, Tom Lane)
+ queries (Tom Lane, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add dirtied and written block counts to
- <application>pg_stat_statements</> (Robert Haas, Fujii Masao,
- Greg Smith)
+ <application>pg_stat_statements</> (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> on global objects (KaiGai Kohei,
- Robert Haas)
+ Support <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> on global objects (KaiGai
+ Kohei, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Perform sepgsql permission checks during the creation of various
- objects (KaiGai Kohei, Dimitri Fontaine)
+ objects (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <function>sepgsql_setcon()</> and related functions to control
- the sepgsql security domain (KaiGai Kohei, Yeb Havinga)
+ the sepgsql security domain (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve the foreign data wrapper <acronym>API</acronym> and
- documentation (Hanada Shigeru, KaiGai Kohei)
+ documentation (Hanada Shigeru)
</para>
</listitem>
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