2018-11-20 [578b22971] Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visi
-->
-<para>
-Remove the special behavior of <link linkend="datatype-oid">OID</link> columns (Andres Freund, John Naylor)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Previously, a normally-invisible <type>OID</type> column could be specified during table
-creation using <literal>WITH OIDS</literal>; that ability has been removed. Columns can
-still be explicitly specified as type <type>OID</type>. Operations on tables that
-have columns named <type>OID</type> (created using <literal>WITH OIDS</literal>) will need adjustment.
-<command>SELECT *</command> will now output those columns for the many system tables which
-have them. Previously, the columns had to be selected explicitly.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove the special behavior of <link
+ linkend="datatype-oid">OID</link> columns (Andres Freund,
+ John Naylor)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, a normally-invisible <type>OID</type> column could be
+ specified during table creation using <literal>WITH OIDS</literal>;
+ that ability has been removed. Columns can still be explicitly
+ specified as type <type>OID</type>. Operations on tables that
+ have columns named <type>OID</type> (created using <literal>WITH
+ OIDS</literal>) will need adjustment. <command>SELECT *</command>
+ will now output those columns for the many system tables which
+ have them. Previously, the columns had to be selected explicitly.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-11 [cda6a8d01] Remove deprecated abstime, reltime, tinterval datatypes.
-->
-<para>
-Remove data types <type>abstime</type>, <type>reltime</type>, and <type>tinterval</type> (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove data types <type>abstime</type>, <type>reltime</type>,
+ and <type>tinterval</type> (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-11 [2d10defa7] Remove timetravel extension.
-->
-<para>
-Remove the <productname>timetravel</productname> extension (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove the <productname>timetravel</productname> extension
+ (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-25 [2dedf4d9a] Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
-->
-<para>
-Move <filename>recovery.conf</filename> settings into <link linkend="runtime-config-wal-archive-recovery"><filename>postgresql.conf</filename></link> (Fujii Masao, Simon Riggs, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Sergei Kornilov)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-<filename>recovery.conf</filename> is no longer used, and the server will not start if the
-file exists. <link linkend="runtime-config-wal-archive-recovery">recovery.signal</link> and standby.signal are now used to switch into non-primary mode.
-<varname>trigger_file</varname> has been renamed to <xref linkend="guc-promote-trigger-file"/>. The <varname>standby_mode</varname> setting has been removed.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Move <filename>recovery.conf</filename> settings into <link
+ linkend="runtime-config-wal-archive-recovery"><filename>postgresql.conf</filename></link>
+ (Fujii Masao, Simon Riggs, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Sergei Kornilov)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <filename>recovery.conf</filename> is no longer used,
+ and the server will not start if the file exists. <link
+ linkend="runtime-config-wal-archive-recovery">recovery.signal</link>
+ and standby.signal are now used to switch into non-primary
+ mode. <varname>trigger_file</varname> has been renamed
+ to <xref linkend="guc-promote-trigger-file"/>. The
+ <varname>standby_mode</varname> setting has been removed.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-28 [f2cbffc7a] Only allow one recovery target setting
-->
-<para>
-Do not allow multiple different <link linkend="runtime-config-wal-recovery-target"><varname>recovery_target</varname>*</link> specifications (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow multiple different <link
+ linkend="runtime-config-wal-recovery-target"><varname>recovery_target</varname>*</link>
+ specifications (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, multiple different <varname>recovery_target</varname>* variables could be specified, and the last one specified was honored. Now, only one can be specified, though the same one can
-be specified multiple times and the last specification is honored.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, multiple different <varname>recovery_target</varname>*
+ variables could be specified, and the last one specified was
+ honored. Now, only one can be specified, though the same one can
+ be specified multiple times and the last specification is honored.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-13 [0acb3bc33] Change default of recovery_target_timeline to <literal>latest</literal>
-->
-<para>
-Cause recovery to advance to the latest timeline by default (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Cause recovery to advance to the latest timeline by default
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Specifically, <xref linkend="guc-recovery-target-time"/> now defaults to <literal>latest</literal>. Previously, it defaulted to <literal>current</literal>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Specifically, <xref linkend="guc-recovery-target-time"/> now
+ defaults to <literal>latest</literal>. Previously, it defaulted
+ to <literal>current</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-29 [a7dc63d90] Refactor geometric functions and operators
-->
-<para>
-Refactor <link linkend="functions-geometry">geometric functions</link> and operators (Emre Hasegeli)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Refactor <link linkend="functions-geometry">geometric
+ functions</link> and operators (Emre Hasegeli)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This could lead to more accurate, but slightly different, results from previous releases.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This could lead to more accurate, but slightly different, results
+ from previous releases.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-16 [c4c340088] Use the built-in float datatypes to implement geometric
-->
-<para>
-Restructure <link linkend="datatype-geometric">geometric types</link> to handle NaN, underflow, overflow and division by zero more consistently (Emre Hasegeli)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Restructure <link linkend="datatype-geometric">geometric
+ types</link> to handle NaN, underflow, overflow and division by
+ zero more consistently (Emre Hasegeli)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-26 [2e2a392de] Fix problems in handling the line data type
-->
-<para>
-Improve behavior and error reporting for the <link linkend="datatype-geometric">line data type</link> (Emre Hasegeli)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve behavior and error reporting for the <link
+ linkend="datatype-geometric">line data type</link> (Emre Hasegeli)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-13 [02ddd4993] Change floating-point output format for improved perform
-->
-<para>
-Avoid performing unnecessary rounding of <link linkend="datatype-float"><type>REAL</type></link> and <type>DOUBLE PRECISION</type> values (Andrew Gierth)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This dramatically speeds up processing of floating-point values but causes
-additional trailing digits to potentially be displayed. Users wishing
-to have output that is rounded to match the previous behavior can set
-<link linkend="guc-extra-float-digits"><literal>extra_float_digits=0</literal></link>, which is no longer the default.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Avoid performing unnecessary rounding of <link
+ linkend="datatype-float"><type>REAL</type></link> and <type>DOUBLE
+ PRECISION</type> values (Andrew Gierth)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This dramatically speeds up processing of floating-point
+ values but causes additional trailing digits to
+ potentially be displayed. Users wishing to have output
+ that is rounded to match the previous behavior can set <link
+ linkend="guc-extra-float-digits"><literal>extra_float_digits=0</literal></link>,
+ which is no longer the default.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-23 [c06e3550d] Don't request pretty-printed output from xmlNodeDump().
-->
-<para>
-Change <link linkend="functions-xml"><acronym>XML</acronym></link> functions like <function>xpath()</function> to never pretty-print their output (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Change <link linkend="functions-xml"><acronym>XML</acronym></link>
+ functions like <function>xpath()</function> to never pretty-print
+ their output (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, this happened in some rare cases. ACCURATE? HOW TO GET PRETTY PRINT OUTPUT?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, this happened in some rare cases. ACCURATE? HOW TO
+ GET PRETTY PRINT OUTPUT?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-13 [6dd263cfa] Rename pg_verify_checksums to pg_checksums
-->
-<para>
-Rename command-line tool <application>pg_verify_checksums</application> to <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Rename command-line tool
+ <application>pg_verify_checksums</application> to <xref
+ linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-04 [413ccaa74] pg_restore: Require -f - to mean stdout
-->
-<para>
-Require specification of <xref linkend="app-pgrestore"/> <literal>-f -</literal> to send the dump contents to stdout (Euler Taveira)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Require specification of <xref linkend="app-pgrestore"/>
+ <literal>-f -</literal> to send the dump contents to stdout
+ (Euler Taveira)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The previous behavior was considered confusing.
-</para>
+ The previous behavior was considered confusing.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-26 [a7eece4fc] Fix breakage of "\pset format latex".
-->
-<para>
-Disallow <application>psql</application>'s <command>\pset format</command> command from using non-unique abbreviations (Daniel Vérité)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Disallow <application>psql</application>'s <command>\pset
+ format</command> command from using non-unique abbreviations
+ (Daniel Vérité)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, <command>\pset format a</command> chose <literal>aligned</literal>; it will now error.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, <command>\pset format a</command> chose
+ <literal>aligned</literal>; it will now error.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
This is caused by adding the tid to the btree entry, as listed later.
-->
-<para>
-The maximum btree index length is now reduced by eight bytes; a <xref linkend="sql-reindex"/> operation could potentially fail.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The maximum btree index length is now reduced by eight bytes;
+ a <xref linkend="sql-reindex"/> operation could potentially fail.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-05 [478cacb50] Ensure consistent name matching behavior in processSQLNa
-->
-<para>
-Allow data type <link linkend="datatype-character-special-table">name</link> to use non-C collations (Tom Lane, Daniel Vérité)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow data type <link
+ linkend="datatype-character-special-table">name</link> to use
+ non-C collations (Tom Lane, Daniel Vérité)
+ </para>
-<para>
-It still uses the "C" collation by default, rather than defaulting to the database collation. Regular expression operations on data type name columns will now use the
-"C" collation; you will need to override the collation if you want to use locale-specific regular expression patterns, e.g., <command>\w</command>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ It still uses the "C" collation by default, rather than defaulting
+ to the database collation. Regular expression operations on
+ data type name columns will now use the "C" collation; you will
+ need to override the collation if you want to use locale-specific
+ regular expression patterns, e.g., <command>\w</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-21 [bfb456c1b] Improve error reporting for DROP FUNCTION/PROCEDURE/AGGR
-->
-<para>
-Cause <link linkend="sql-dropfunction"><command>DROP IF EXISTS FUNCTION</command></link>/<literal>PROCEDURE</literal>/<literal>AGGREGATE</literal>/<literal>ROUTINE</literal> to generate an error if no arguments are supplied and there are multiple matching objects (David Rowley)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Cause <link linkend="sql-dropfunction"><command>DROP IF EXISTS
+ FUNCTION</command></link>/<literal>PROCEDURE</literal>/<literal>AGGREGATE</literal>/<literal>ROUTINE</literal>
+ to generate an error if no arguments are supplied and there are
+ multiple matching objects (David Rowley)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Also improve the error message in such cases.
-</para>
+ Also improve the error message in such cases.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-01 [96b00c433] Remove obsolete <structname>pg_constraint</structname>.consrc column
-->
-<para>
-Remove obsolete <link linkend="catalog-pg-constraint"><structname>pg_constraint</structname></link>.<structfield>consrc</structfield> column (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove obsolete <link
+ linkend="catalog-pg-constraint"><structname>pg_constraint</structname></link>.<structfield>consrc</structfield>
+ column (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-01 [fe5038236] Remove obsolete pg_attrdef.adsrc column
-->
-<para>
-Remove obsolete <link linkend="catalog-pg-attrdef"><structname>pg_attrdef</structname></link>.<structfield>adsrc</structfield> column (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove obsolete <link
+ linkend="catalog-pg-attrdef"><structname>pg_attrdef</structname></link>.<structfield>adsrc</structfield>
+ column (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-10 [bcbd94080] Remove dynamic_shared_memory_type=none
-->
-<para>
-Remove the ability to disable dynamic shared memory (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove the ability to disable dynamic shared memory (Kyotaro
+ Horiguchi)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Specifically, <xref linkend="guc-dynamic-shared-memory-type"/> can no longer be set to <literal>none</literal>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Specifically, <xref linkend="guc-dynamic-shared-memory-type"/>
+ can no longer be set to <literal>none</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
- <para>
- Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 12 and the previous major
- release.
- </para>
+ Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 12 and the previous
+ major release.
+ </para>
<sect3>
<title>Server</title>
2019-04-05 [959d00e9d] Use Append rather than MergeAppend for scanning ordered
-->
-<para>
-Improve performance of many operations on partitioned tables (Amit Langote, David Rowley, Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve performance of many operations on partitioned tables
+ (Amit Langote, David Rowley, Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
-efficiently by operations that only need to touch a small number
-of partitions.
-</para>
+ Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
+ efficiently by operations that only need to touch a small number
+ of partitions.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-03 [f56f8f8da] Support foreign keys that reference partitioned tables
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="ddl-constraints-fk">foreign keys</link> to reference partitioned tables (Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="ddl-constraints-fk">foreign keys</link>
+ to reference partitioned tables (Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-01 [0d5f05cde] Allow multi-inserts during COPY into a partitioned table
-->
-<para>
-Improve speed of <command>COPY</command> into partitioned tables (David Rowley)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve speed of <command>COPY</command> into partitioned tables
+ (David Rowley)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-25 [7c079d741] Allow generalized expression syntax for partition bounds
-->
-<para>
-Allow partitions bounds to be any expression (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Amit Langote)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow partitions bounds to be any expression (Kyotaro Horiguchi,
+ Tom Lane, Amit Langote)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Expressions are evaluated at partitioned table creation time. Previously, only constants were allowed as partitions bounds.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Expressions are evaluated at partitioned table creation time.
+ Previously, only constants were allowed as partitions bounds.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-17 [ca4103025] Fix tablespace handling for partitioned tables
-->
-<para>
-Allow <command>CREATE TABLE</command>'s tablespace specification for a partitioned table to affect the tablespace of its children (David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <command>CREATE TABLE</command>'s tablespace specification
+ for a partitioned table to affect the tablespace of its children
+ (David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-07 [898e5e329] Allow ATTACH PARTITION with only ShareUpdateExclusiveLoc
-->
-<para>
-<link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ATTACH PARTITION</command></link> is now performed with reduced locking requirements (Robert Haas)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ATTACH
+ PARTITION</command></link> is now performed with reduced locking
+ requirements (Robert Haas)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-08 [3677a0b26] Add pg_partition_root to display top-most parent of a pa
-->
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_root()</function></link> to return top-most parent of a partition tree (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_root()</function></link>
+ to return top-most parent of a partition tree (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-04 [b96f6b194] pg_partition_ancestors
-->
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_ancestors()</function></link> to report all ancestors of a partition (Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_ancestors()</function></link>
+ to report all ancestors of a partition (Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-30 [d5eec4eef] Add pg_partition_tree to display information about parti
-->
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_tree()</function></link> to display information about partitions (Amit Langote)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-info-partition"><function>pg_partition_tree()</function></link>
+ to display information about partitions (Amit Langote)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-18 [f94cec644] Include partitioned indexes to system view pg_indexes
-->
-<para>
-Include partitioned indexes in the system view <link linkend="view-pg-indexes"><structname>pg_indexes</structname></link> (Suraj Kharage)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Include partitioned indexes in the system view <link
+ linkend="view-pg-indexes"><structname>pg_indexes</structname></link>
+ (Suraj Kharage)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-07 [1c5d9270e] psql \dP: list partitioned tables and indexes
-->
-<para>
-Add <application>psql</application> command <command>\dP</command> to list partitioned tables and indexes (Pavel Stěhule)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <application>psql</application> command <command>\dP</command>
+ to list partitioned tables and indexes (Pavel Stěhule)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-17 [b036982db] psql: display tablespace for partitioned indexes
-->
-<para>
-Improve <application>psql</application> <command>\d</command> and <command>\z</command> display of partitioned tables (Pavel Stěhule, Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve <application>psql</application> <command>\d</command>
+ and <command>\z</command> display of partitioned tables (Pavel
+ Stěhule, Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-11 [1d92a0c9f] Redesign the partition dependency mechanism.
-->
-<para>
-Improve handling of partition dependency (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Improve handling of partition dependency (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This prevents the creation of inconsistent partition hierarchies in rare cases.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This prevents the creation of inconsistent partition hierarchies
+ in rare cases.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-25 [f21668f32] Add "split after new tuple" nbtree optimization.
-->
-<para>
-Improve speed of btree index insertions (Peter Geoghegan, Alexander Korotkov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve speed of btree index insertions (Peter Geoghegan,
+ Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new code improves the space-efficiency of page splits, reduces locking
-overhead, and gives better performance for <command>UPDATE</command>s
-and <command>DELETE</command>s on indexes with many duplicates.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The new code improves the space-efficiency of page splits,
+ reduces locking overhead, and gives better performance for
+ <command>UPDATE</command>s and <command>DELETE</command>s on
+ indexes with many duplicates.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-10 [f2e403803] Support for INCLUDE attributes in GiST indexes
-->
-<para>
-Support <link linkend="sql-createindex"><literal>INCLUDE</literal></link> columns in <link linkend="gist">GiST</link> indexes (Andrey Borodin)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Support <link
+ linkend="sql-createindex"><literal>INCLUDE</literal></link> columns
+ in <link linkend="gist">GiST</link> indexes (Andrey Borodin)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-19 [2a6368343] Add support for nearest-neighbor (KNN) searches to SP-Gi
-->
-<para>
-Add support for nearest-neighbor (<acronym>KNN</acronym>) searches of <link linkend="spgist">SP-GiST</link> indexes (Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov, Vlad Sterzhanov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for nearest-neighbor (<acronym>KNN</acronym>) searches
+ of <link linkend="spgist">SP-GiST</link> indexes (Nikita Glukhov,
+ Alexander Korotkov, Vlad Sterzhanov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-03 [9155580fd] Generate less WAL during GiST, GIN and SP-GiST index bui
-->
-<para>
-Reduce the <acronym>WAL</acronym> write overhead of <acronym>GiST</acronym>, <acronym>GIN</acronym> and <acronym>SP-GiST</acronym> index creation (Anastasia Lubennikova, Andrey V. Lepikhov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Reduce the <acronym>WAL</acronym> write overhead
+ of <acronym>GiST</acronym>, <acronym>GIN</acronym> and
+ <acronym>SP-GiST</acronym> index creation (Anastasia Lubennikova,
+ Andrey V. Lepikhov)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-03 [80b9e9c46] Improve performance of index-only scans with many index
-->
-<para>
-Allow index-only scans to be more efficient on indexes with many columns (Konstantin Knizhnik)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow index-only scans to be more efficient on indexes with many
+ columns (Konstantin Knizhnik)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-20 [fab250243] Consider secondary factors during nbtree splits.
-->
-<para>
-Have new btree indexes sort duplicate index entries in heap-storage order (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Have new btree indexes sort duplicate index entries in heap-storage
+ order (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Indexes <application>pg_upgraded</application> from previous releases will not have this ordering.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Indexes <application>pg_upgraded</application> from previous
+ releases will not have this ordering.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-05 [fe280694d] Scan GiST indexes in physical order during VACUUM.
-->
-<para>
-Improve the performance of vacuum scans of GiST indexes (Andrey Borodin, Konstantin Kuznetsov, Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve the performance of vacuum scans of GiST indexes (Andrey
+ Borodin, Konstantin Kuznetsov, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-22 [7df159a62] Delete empty pages during GiST VACUUM.
-->
-<para>
-Delete empty leaf pages during <acronym>GiST</acronym> <command>VACUUM</command> (Andrey Borodin)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Delete empty leaf pages during <acronym>GiST</acronym>
+ <command>VACUUM</command> (Andrey Borodin)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-14 [1b5d797cd] Lower lock level for renaming indexes
-->
-<para>
-Reduce locking requirements for index renaming (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ Reduce locking requirements for index renaming (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-27 [a63b29a1d] Minor improvements for the multivariate MCV lists
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="sql-createstatistics"/> to create most-common-value statistics for multiple columns (Tomas Vondra)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="sql-createstatistics"/> to create
+ most-common-value statistics for multiple columns (Tomas Vondra)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This improves optimization for columns with non-uniform distributions that often appear in <literal>WHERE</literal> clauses.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This improves optimization for columns with non-uniform
+ distributions that often appear in <literal>WHERE</literal>
+ clauses.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-09 [947613127] Prevent inlining of multiply-referenced CTEs with outer
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="queries-with">common table expressions</link> (<acronym>CTE</acronym>) to be inlined in later parts of the query (Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter, Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="queries-with">common table expressions</link>
+ (<acronym>CTE</acronym>) to be inlined in later parts of the query
+ (Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Specifically, <acronym>CTE</acronym>s are inlined if they are not recursive and are referenced only once later in the query. Inlining can be prevented by specifying <literal>MATERIALIZED</literal>, and
-forced by specifying <literal>NOT MATERIALIZED</literal>. Previously, <acronym>CTE</acronym>s were never inlined and were always evaluated before the rest of the query.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Specifically, <acronym>CTE</acronym>s are inlined
+ if they are not recursive and are referenced only
+ once later in the query. Inlining can be prevented by
+ specifying <literal>MATERIALIZED</literal>, and forced by
+ specifying <literal>NOT MATERIALIZED</literal>. Previously,
+ <acronym>CTE</acronym>s were never inlined and were always
+ evaluated before the rest of the query.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-16 [f7cb2842b] Add plan_cache_mode setting
-->
-<para>
-Allow control over when generic plans are used for prepared statements (Pavel Stěhule)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow control over when generic plans are used for prepared
+ statements (Pavel Stěhule)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is controlled by the <xref linkend="guc-plan-cache_mode"/> server variable.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is controlled by the <xref linkend="guc-plan-cache_mode"/>
+ server variable.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-30 [0a6ea4001] Add a hash opclass for type "tid".
-->
-<para>
-Improve optimization of self-joins (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Improve optimization of self-joins (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-09 [1fb57af92] Create the infrastructure for planner support functions.
-->
-<para>
-Add support for <link linkend="sql-createfunction">function selectivity</link> (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <link linkend="sql-createfunction">function
+ selectivity</link> (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-09 [a391ff3c3] Build out the planner support function infrastructure.
-->
-<para>
-Use the new support function capability to improve optimizer estimates for some functions (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Use the new support function capability to improve optimizer
+ estimates for some functions (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Specifically, improve them for <function>generate_series()</function>, <function>unnest()</function>, and functions that return boolean values.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Specifically, improve them for
+ <function>generate_series()</function>,
+ <function>unnest()</function>, and functions that return boolean
+ values.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-13 [04fe805a1] Drop no-op CoerceToDomain nodes from expressions at plan
-->
-<para>
-Improve optimizations for <link linkend="sql-createdomain">domains</link> that have no check constraints (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimizations for <link
+ linkend="sql-createdomain">domains</link> that have no check
+ constraints (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-30 [6f19a8c41] Teach eval_const_expressions to constant-fold LEAST/GREA
-->
-<para>
-Inline calls to <link linkend="functions-greatest-least"><literal>LEAST</literal></link> and <literal>GREATEST</literal> to improve optimization (Vik Fearing)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Inline calls to <link
+ linkend="functions-greatest-least"><literal>LEAST</literal></link>
+ and <literal>GREATEST</literal> to improve optimization (Vik
+ Fearing)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-20 [e04a3905e] Improve planner's understanding of strictness of type co
-->
-<para>
-Allow <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> with mis-matching types to use partial indexes more frequently (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> with mis-matching types to
+ use partial indexes more frequently (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-01 [65ce07e02] Teach optimizer's predtest.c more things about ScalarArr
-->
-<para>
-Allow IN comparisons with arrays to use <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> partial indexes more frequently (James Coleman)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow IN comparisons with arrays to use <literal>IS NOT
+ NULL</literal> partial indexes more frequently (James Coleman)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-14 [5e0928005] Make pg_statistic and related code account more honestly
-->
-<para>
-Store statistics using the collation defined for each column (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Store statistics using the collation defined for each column
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, the default collation was used for all statistics storage. This potentially gives better optimizer behavior for columns with non-default collations.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, the default collation was used for all statistics
+ storage. This potentially gives better optimizer behavior for
+ columns with non-default collations.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-25 [f7111f72d] Improve planner's selectivity estimates for inequalities
-->
-<para>
-Improve optimizer estimates for <link linkend="datatype-oid"><type>tid</type></link> inequality comparisons (Edmund Horner)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimizer estimates for <link
+ linkend="datatype-oid"><type>tid</type></link> inequality
+ comparisons (Edmund Horner)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-11 [39a96512b] Mark built-in btree comparison functions as leakproof wh
-->
-<para>
-Fix the btree leakproof designation of some functions (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Fix the btree leakproof designation of some functions (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows for more complex optimizations.
-</para>
+ This allows for more complex optimizations.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2018-09-21 [1f7fc7670] doc: JIT is enabled by default in PG 12
-->
-<para>
-Enable <link linkend="jit">Just-in-Time</link> (<acronym>JIT</acronym>) compilation by default (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Enable <link linkend="jit">Just-in-Time</link>
+ (<acronym>JIT</acronym>) compilation by default (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-26 [a9c35cf85] Change function call information to be variable length.
-->
-<para>
-Greatly reduce memory consumption of <xref linkend="sql-copy"/> and function calls (Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Greatly reduce memory consumption of <xref linkend="sql-copy"/>
+ and function calls (Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-09 [c64d0cd5c] Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keywo
-->
-<para>
-Speed up keyword lookup (John Naylor, Joerg Sonnenberger, Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Speed up keyword lookup (John Naylor, Joerg Sonnenberger, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-25 [9556aa01c] Use single-byte Boyer-Moore-Horspool search even with mu
-->
-<para>
-Improve search performance for multi-byte characters (Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve search performance for multi-byte characters (Heikki
+ Linnakangas)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-02 [4d0e994ee] Add support for partial TOAST decompression
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="storage-toast"><literal>TOAST</literal></link> values to be minimally decompressed (Paul Ramsey)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="storage-toast"><literal>TOAST</literal></link>
+ values to be minimally decompressed (Paul Ramsey)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful for routines that only look at values at the start of the <literal>TOAST</literal> field.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is useful for routines that only look at values at the start
+ of the <literal>TOAST</literal> field.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-13 [bbb96c370] Allow ALTER TABLE .. SET NOT NULL to skip provably unnec
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ALTER TABLE .. SET NOT NULL</command></link> to avoid unnecessary checking (Sergei Kornilov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ALTER TABLE .. SET
+ NOT NULL</command></link> to avoid unnecessary checking (Sergei
+ Kornilov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This can happen if column constraints already prevent nulls.
-</para>
+ This can happen if column constraints already prevent nulls.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-08 [3c5926301] Avoid some table rewrites for ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TY
-->
-<para>
-Allow <command>ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE</command> <type>timestamp/timestamptz</type> to avoid a table rewrite when the session time zone is <acronym>UTC</acronym> (Noah Misch)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <command>ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE</command>
+ <type>timestamp/timestamptz</type> to avoid a table rewrite when
+ the session time zone is <acronym>UTC</acronym> (Noah Misch)
+ </para>
-<para>
-In the <acronym>UTC</acronym> time zone, the data types are binary compatible.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ In the <acronym>UTC</acronym> time zone, the data types are
+ binary compatible.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-22 [86eaf208e] Hand code string to integer conversion for performance.
-->
-<para>
-Improve speed in converting strings to <type>int2</type>/<type>int4</type> integers (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve speed in converting strings to
+ <type>int2</type>/<type>int4</type> integers (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-15 [bb16aba50] Enable parallel query with SERIALIZABLE isolation.
-->
-<para>
-Allow parallelized queries when in <link linkend="sql-set-transaction"><literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal></link> isolation mode (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow parallelized queries when in <link
+ linkend="sql-set-transaction"><literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal></link>
+ isolation mode (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, parallelism was disabled when in this mode.
-</para>
+ Previously, parallelism was disabled when in this mode.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-07 [c24dcd0cf] Use pg_pread() and pg_pwrite() for data files and WAL.
-->
-<para>
-Use <function>pread()</function> and <function>pwrite()</function> for random I/O (Oskari Saarenmaa, Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Use <function>pread()</function> and <function>pwrite()</function>
+ for random I/O (Oskari Saarenmaa, Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This reduces the number of system calls required.
+ This reduces the number of system calls required.
-</para>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-24 [1bc180cd2] Use setproctitle_fast() to update the ps status, if avai
-->
-<para>
-Improve the speed of setting the <link linkend="guc-update-process-title">process title</link> on <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</systemitem> (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve the speed of setting the <link
+ linkend="guc-update-process-title">process title</link> on
+ <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</systemitem> (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-04-03 [799e22034] Log all statements from a sample of transactions
-->
-<para>
-Allow logging of only a percentage of statements and transactions meeting <xref linkend="guc-log-min-duration-statement"/> criteria (Adrien Nayrat)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow logging of only a percentage of statements and transactions
+ meeting <xref linkend="guc-log-min-duration-statement"/> criteria
+ (Adrien Nayrat)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The parameters <xref linkend="guc-log-statement-sample-rate"/> and <xref linkend="guc-log-transaction-sample-rate"/> control this.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The parameters <xref linkend="guc-log-statement-sample-rate"/>
+ and <xref linkend="guc-log-transaction-sample-rate"/> control this.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-07 [03f9e5cba] Report progress of REINDEX operations
-->
-<para>
-Report progress of <command>CREATE INDEX</command> and <command>REINDEX</command> operations (Álvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Report progress of <command>CREATE INDEX</command> and
+ <command>REINDEX</command> operations (Álvaro Herrera, Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Progress is reported in the <link linkend="progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_create_index</structname></link> system view
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Progress is reported in the <link
+ linkend="progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_create_index</structname></link>
+ system view
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-25 [6f97457e0] Add progress reporting for CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL.
-->
-<para>
-Add progress reporting to <command>CLUSTER</command> and <command>VACUUM FULL</command> (Tatsuro Yamada)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add progress reporting to <command>CLUSTER</command> and
+ <command>VACUUM FULL</command> (Tatsuro Yamada)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Progress is reported in the <link linkend="vacuum-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_cluster</structname></link> system view.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Progress is reported in the <link
+ linkend="vacuum-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_cluster</structname></link>
+ system view.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-02 [280e5f140] Add progress reporting to pg_checksums
-->
-<para>
-Add progress reporting to <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> (Michael Banck, Bernd Helmle)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add progress reporting to <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/>
+ (Michael Banck, Bernd Helmle)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is enabled with the option <option>--progress</option>.
-</para>
+ This is enabled with the option <option>--progress</option>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-09 [6b9e875f7] Track block level checksum failures in pg_stat_database
-->
-<para>
-Add counter of checksum failures to <structname>pg_stat_database</structname> (Magnus Hagander)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add counter of checksum failures to
+ <structname>pg_stat_database</structname> (Magnus Hagander)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-12 [77bd49adb] Show shared object statistics in pg_stat_database
-->
-<para>
-Add tracking of global objects in system view <structname>pg_stat_database</structname> (Julien Rouhaud)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add tracking of global objects in system view
+ <structname>pg_stat_database</structname> (Julien Rouhaud)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Global objects have a <link linkend="pg-stat-database-view"><structname>pg_stat_database</structname></link>.<structfield>datoid</structfield> value of zero.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Global objects have a <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-database-view"><structname>pg_stat_database</structname></link>.<structfield>datoid</structfield>
+ value of zero.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-09 [c48101620] Add pg_ls_archive_statusdir function
-->
-<para>
-Add the ability to list the contents of the archive directory (Christoph Moench-Tegeder)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add the ability to list the contents of the archive directory
+ (Christoph Moench-Tegeder)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function is <link linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_ls_archive_statusdir()</function></link>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function is <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_ls_archive_statusdir()</function></link>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-05 [9cd92d1a3] Add pg_ls_tmpdir function
-->
-<para>
-Add the ability to list the contents of temporary directories (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add the ability to list the contents of temporary directories
+ (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function, <link linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_ls_tmpdir()</function></link>, optionally allows specification of a tablespace.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function, <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_ls_tmpdir()</function></link>,
+ optionally allows specification of a tablespace.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-01 [f60a0e967] Add more columns to pg_stat_ssl
-->
-<para>
-Add information about the client certificate to the system view <structname>pg_stat_ssl</structname> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add information about the client certificate to the system view
+ <structname>pg_stat_ssl</structname> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new columns are <structfield>client_serial</structfield> and <structfield>issuer_dn</structfield>. Column <structfield>clientdn</structfield> has been renamed to <structfield>client_dn</structfield>, for clarity.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The new columns are <structfield>client_serial</structfield>
+ and <structfield>issuer_dn</structfield>. Column
+ <structfield>clientdn</structfield> has been renamed to
+ <structfield>client_dn</structfield>, for clarity.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-21 [f9692a769] Hide other user's pg_stat_ssl rows
-->
-<para>
-Restrict visibility of rows in <link linkend="pg-stat-ssl-view"><structname>pg_stat_ssl</structname></link> by unprivileged users (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Restrict visibility of rows in <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-ssl-view"><structname>pg_stat_ssl</structname></link>
+ by unprivileged users (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-30 [689d15e95] Log PostgreSQL version number on startup
-->
-<para>
-Add the version number to the server startup log message (Christoph Berg)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add the version number to the server startup log message
+ (Christoph Berg)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-06 [342cb650e] Don't log incomplete startup packet if it's empty
-->
-<para>
-Prevent logging of empty "incomplete" startup packets (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Prevent logging of empty "incomplete" startup packets (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-28 [8bddc8640] Add application_name to connection authorized msg
-->
-<para>
-Unconditionally include <xref linkend="guc-application-name"/> in server log authentication messages (Don Seiler)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Unconditionally include <xref linkend="guc-application-name"/>
+ in server log authentication messages (Don Seiler)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-27 [6ae578a91] Set fallback_application_name for a walreceiver to clust
-->
-<para>
-Have the walreceiver set its application name to the cluster name, if set (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Have the walreceiver set its application name to the cluster name,
+ if set (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-09 [7fee252f6] Add timestamp of last received message from standby to p
-->
-<para>
-Add the timestamp of the last received standby message to <link linkend="pg-stat-replication-view"><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></link> (Lim MyungKyu)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add the timestamp of the last received standby message to <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-replication-view"><structname>pg_stat_replication</structname></link>
+ (Lim MyungKyu)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-02 [c55de5e51] Add wait event for fsync of WAL segments
-->
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="wait-event-table">wait event</link> for fsync of <acronym>WAL</acronym> segments (Konstantin Knizhnik)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="wait-event-table">wait event</link> for fsync
+ of <acronym>WAL</acronym> segments (Konstantin Knizhnik)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2018-12-20 [7c15cef86] Base information_schema.sql_identifier domain on name, n
-->
-<para>
-Allow more use of indexes for text comparisons with <structname>information_schema</structname> columns (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow more use of indexes for text comparisons with
+ <structname>information_schema</structname> columns (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-18 [6b0faf723] Make collation-aware system catalog columns use "C" coll
-->
-<para>
-Use "C" collation for <structname>information_schema</structname> and the system tables (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Use "C" collation for <structname>information_schema</structname>
+ and the system tables (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This will produce more consistent behavior in databases with different collations, but will also cause these tables to produce results in "C" collation ordering, rather
-than the default collation for the database.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This will produce more consistent behavior in databases with
+ different collations, but will also cause these tables to produce
+ results in "C" collation ordering, rather than the default
+ collation for the database.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-20 [5bbee34d9] Avoid producing over-length specific_name outputs in inf
-->
-<para>
-Force <structname>information_schema</structname> outputs to honor the system-defined maximum 63-byte identifier length (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Force <structname>information_schema</structname> outputs to honor
+ the system-defined maximum 63-byte identifier length (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-04-03 [b0b39f72b] GSSAPI encryption support
-->
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="gssapi-auth"><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></link> client and server-side encryption support (Robbie Harwood, Stephen Frost)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="gssapi-auth"><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym></link>
+ client and server-side encryption support (Robbie Harwood,
+ Stephen Frost)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</filename></link> <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><literal>hostgssenc</literal></link> and <literal>hostnogssenc</literal> record types. This would typically use the <literal>gss</literal> authentication method. This also adds a libpq <xref linkend="libpq-connect-gssencmode"/> option, and
-a <xref linkend="pg-stat-gssapi-view"/> system view.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</filename></link>
+ <link
+ linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><literal>hostgssenc</literal></link>
+ and <literal>hostnogssenc</literal> record types. This would
+ typically use the <literal>gss</literal> authentication method.
+ This also adds a libpq <xref linkend="libpq-connect-gssencmode"/>
+ option, and a <xref linkend="pg-stat-gssapi-view"/> system view.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-09 [0516c61b7] Add new clientcert hba option verify-full
-->
-<para>
-Allow the <link linkend="auth-cert"><literal>clientcert</literal></link> <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> option to check that the database user name matches the certificate common name (Julian Markwort, Marius Timmer)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow the <link
+ linkend="auth-cert"><literal>clientcert</literal></link>
+ <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> option to check that the database
+ user name matches the certificate common name (Julian Markwort,
+ Marius Timmer)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new check is enabled with <literal>clientcert=verify-full</literal>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The new check is enabled with
+ <literal>clientcert=verify-full</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-21 [0f086f84a] Add DNS SRV support for LDAP server discovery.
-->
-<para>
-Allow discovery of the <link linkend="auth-ldap"><acronym>LDAP</acronym></link> server using <acronym>DNS SRV</acronym> records (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow discovery of the <link
+ linkend="auth-ldap"><acronym>LDAP</acronym></link> server using
+ <acronym>DNS SRV</acronym> records (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This avoids the requirement of specifying <literal>ldapserver</literal>, and is only supported if <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is compiled with <productname>OpenLDAP</productname>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This avoids the requirement of specifying
+ <literal>ldapserver</literal>, and is only supported if
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is compiled with
+ <productname>OpenLDAP</productname>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-10 [f841ceb26] Improve TRUNCATE by avoiding early lock queue
-->
-<para>
-Prevent <xref linkend="sql-truncate"/> from requesting a lock on tables for which it lacks permission (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Prevent <xref linkend="sql-truncate"/> from requesting a lock on
+ tables for which it lacks permission (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This prevents unauthorized locking delays.
-</para>
+ This prevents unauthorized locking delays.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-27 [a556549d7] Improve VACUUM and ANALYZE by avoiding early lock queue
-->
-<para>
-Prevent <command>VACUUM</command> and <command>ANALYZE</command> from requesting a lock on tables for which it lacks permission (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Prevent <command>VACUUM</command> and <command>ANALYZE</command>
+ from requesting a lock on tables for which it lacks permission
+ (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This prevents unauthorized locking delays.
-</para>
+ This prevents unauthorized locking delays.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-23 [ed308d783] Add options to enable and disable checksums in pg_checks
-->
-<para>
-Add ability to enable/disable cluster checksums using <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> (Michael Banck, Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add ability to enable/disable cluster checksums using <xref
+ linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> (Michael Banck, Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The cluster must be offline for these operations.
-</para>
+ The cluster must be offline for these operations.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-10 [cbccac371] Reduce the default value of autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
-->
-<para>
-Reduce the default value of <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-vacuum-cost-delay"/> to 2ms (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Reduce the default value of <xref
+ linkend="guc-autovacuum-vacuum-cost-delay"/> to 2ms (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-10 [caf626b2c] Convert [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay into floating-poi
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="guc-vacuum-cost-delay"/> to specify sub-millisecond delays (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="guc-vacuum-cost-delay"/> to specify
+ sub-millisecond delays (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Floating-point values can also now be specified.
-</para>
+ Floating-point values can also now be specified.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-10 [caf626b2c] Convert [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay into floating-poi
-->
-<para>
-Allow time-based server variables to use <link linkend="config-setting">micro-seconds</link> (us) (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow time-based server variables to use <link
+ linkend="config-setting">micro-seconds</link> (us) (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-11 [1a83a80a2] Allow fractional input values for integer GUCs, and impr
-->
-<para>
-Allow fractional input for integer server variables (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Allow fractional input for integer server variables (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-For example, <command>SET work_mem = '30.1GB'</command>.
-</para>
+ For example, <command>SET work_mem = '30.1GB'</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-10 [caf626b2c] Convert [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay into floating-poi
-->
-<para>
-Allow units to be specified for floating-point server variables (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow units to be specified for floating-point server variables
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-02 [475861b26] Add wal_recycle and wal_init_zero GUCs.
-->
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="guc-wal-recycle"/> and <xref linkend="guc-wal-init-zero"/> server variables to avoid <acronym>WAL</acronym> file recycling (Jerry Jelinek)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="guc-wal-recycle"/> and <xref
+ linkend="guc-wal-init-zero"/> server variables to avoid
+ <acronym>WAL</acronym> file recycling (Jerry Jelinek)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This can be beneficial on copy-on-write file systems like <productname>ZFS</productname>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This can be beneficial on copy-on-write file systems like
+ <productname>ZFS</productname>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-06 [249d64999] Add support TCP user timeout in libpq and the backend se
-->
-<para>
-Add parameter to control the server <acronym>TCP</acronym> timeout (Ryohei Nagaura)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add parameter to control the server <acronym>TCP</acronym> timeout
+ (Ryohei Nagaura)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The parameter is <xref linkend="guc-tcp-user-timeout"/>.
-</para>
+ The parameter is <xref linkend="guc-tcp-user-timeout"/>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-20 [e73e67c71] Add settings to control SSL/TLS protocol version
-->
-<para>
-Allow control of the minimum and maximum <acronym>SSL</acronym>> protocol versions (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow control of the minimum and maximum <acronym>SSL</acronym>>
+ protocol versions (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The server settings are <xref linkend="guc-ssl-min-protocol-version"/> and <xref linkend="guc-ssl-max-protocol-version"/>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The server settings are <xref
+ linkend="guc-ssl-min-protocol-version"/> and <xref
+ linkend="guc-ssl-max-protocol-version"/>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-30 [98efa76fe] Add ssl_library preset parameter
-->
-<para>
-Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-ssl-library"/> to report the <acronym>SSL</acronym> library version used by the server (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-ssl-library"/> to report
+ the <acronym>SSL</acronym> library version used by the server
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-03 [f1bebef60] Add shared_memory_type GUC.
-->
-<para>
-Add server variable to control the type of shared memory to use (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add server variable to control the type of shared memory to use
+ (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The variable is <xref linkend="guc-shared-memory-type"/>. Its purpose is to allow selection of <productname>System V</productname> shared memory, if desired.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The variable is <xref linkend="guc-shared-memory-type"/>.
+ Its purpose is to allow selection of <productname>System
+ V</productname> shared memory, if desired.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-02-07 [13b89f96d] Allow some recovery parameters to be changed with reload
-->
-<para>
-Allow some recovery parameters to be changed with reload (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow some recovery parameters to be changed with reload (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-These parameters are <xref linkend="guc-archive-cleanup-command"/>, <xref linkend="guc-promote-trigger-file"/>, <xref linkend="guc-recovery-end-command"/>, and <xref linkend="guc-recovery-min-apply-delay"/>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ These parameters are <xref linkend="guc-archive-cleanup-command"/>,
+ <xref linkend="guc-promote-trigger-file"/>, <xref
+ linkend="guc-recovery-end-command"/>, and <xref
+ linkend="guc-recovery-min-apply-delay"/>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-22 [db361db2f] Make GUC wal_sender_timeout user-settable
-->
-<para>
-Allow the streaming replication timeout (<xref linkend="guc-wal-sender-timeout"/>) to be set per connection (Tsunakawa Takayuki)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow the streaming replication timeout (<xref
+ linkend="guc-wal-sender-timeout"/>) to be set per connection
+ (Tsunakawa Takayuki)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, this could only be set cluster-wide.
-</para>
+ Previously, this could only be set cluster-wide.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-06 [8f045e242] Switch pg_promote to be parallel-safe
-->
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-recovery-control"><function>pg_promote()</function></link> to promote standbys to primaries (Laurenz Albe, Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-control"><function>pg_promote()</function></link>
+ to promote standbys to primaries (Laurenz Albe, Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, this operation was only possible by using <xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"/> or creating a trigger file.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, this operation was only possible by using <xref
+ linkend="app-pg-ctl"/> or creating a trigger file.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-05 [9f06d79ef] Add facility to copy replication slots
-->
-<para>
-Allow replication slots to be copied (Masahiko Sawada)
-</para>
+ Allow replication slots to be copied (Masahiko Sawada)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The functions are <link linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_copy_physical_replication_slot()</function></link> and <function>pg_copy_logical_replication_slot()</function>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The functions are <link
+ linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_copy_physical_replication_slot()</function></link>
+ and <function>pg_copy_logical_replication_slot()</function>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-12 [ea92368cd] Move max_wal_senders out of max_connections for connecti
-->
-<para>
-Have <xref linkend="guc-max-wal-senders"/> not count as part of <xref linkend="guc-max-connections"/> (Alexander Kukushkin)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Have <xref linkend="guc-max-wal-senders"/> not count as part of
+ <xref linkend="guc-max-connections"/> (Alexander Kukushkin)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-11 [ff8530605] Add value 'current' for recovery_target_timeline
-->
-<para>
-Add an explicit value of <literal>current</literal> for <xref linkend="guc-recovery-target-time"/> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add an explicit value of <literal>current</literal> for <xref
+ linkend="guc-recovery-target-time"/> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-07 [8582b4d04] Improve handling of corrupted two-phase state files at r
-->
-<para>
-Have recovery fail if a <link linkend="sql-prepare-transaction">two-phase transaction</link> status file is corrupt (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Have recovery fail if a <link
+ linkend="sql-prepare-transaction">two-phase transaction</link>
+ status file is corrupt (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, only a warning was issued in the logs and recovery continued.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, only a warning was issued in the logs and recovery
+ continued.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-29 [5dc92b844] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
-->
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="sql-reindex"/> <literal>CONCURRENTLY</literal> to allow reindexing concurrently (Michaël Paquier, Andreas Karlsson, Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="sql-reindex"/> <literal>CONCURRENTLY</literal>
+ to allow reindexing concurrently (Michaël Paquier, Andreas
+ Karlsson, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is also controlled by the <xref linkend="app-reindexdb"/> <option>--concurrently</option> option.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is also controlled by the <xref linkend="app-reindexdb"/>
+ <option>--concurrently</option> option.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-30 [fc22b6623] Generated columns
-->
-<para>
-Add support for <link linkend="sql-createtable">generated columns</link> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <link linkend="sql-createtable">generated
+ columns</link> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Rather than storing a value only at row creation time, generated columns are also modified during updates, and can reference other table columns.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Rather than storing a value only at row creation time, generated
+ columns are also modified during updates, and can reference other
+ table columns.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-20 [31f381740] Allow COPY FROM to filter data using WHERE conditions
-->
-<para>
-Add a <literal>WHERE</literal> clause to <command>COPY FROM</command> which controls which rows are output (Surafel Temesgen)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add a <literal>WHERE</literal> clause to <command>COPY
+ FROM</command> which controls which rows are output (Surafel
+ Temesgen)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-09 [212fab992] Relax transactional restrictions on ALTER TYPE ... ADD V
-->
-<para>
-Allow enumerated values to be added in more transaction types (Andrew Dunstan, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow enumerated values to be added in more transaction types
+ (Andrew Dunstan, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, <link linkend="sql-altertype"><command>ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE</command></link> could only be called in a transaction that created the enumerated type. Now, the only restriction is that the new enumerated value
-cannot be referenced until the transaction commits.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, <link linkend="sql-altertype"><command>ALTER
+ TYPE ... ADD VALUE</command></link> could only be called in
+ a transaction that created the enumerated type. Now, the only
+ restriction is that the new enumerated value cannot be referenced
+ until the transaction commits.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-24 [280a408b4] Transaction chaining
-->
-<para>
-Add command to end a transaction and start a new one (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add command to end a transaction and start a new one (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The commands are <link linkend="sql-commit"><command>COMMIT AND CHAIN</command></link> and <command>ROLLBACK AND CHAIN</command>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The commands are <link linkend="sql-commit"><command>COMMIT AND
+ CHAIN</command></link> and <command>ROLLBACK AND CHAIN</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-22 [5e1963fb7] Collations with nondeterministic comparison
-->
-<para>
-Allow the creation of <link linkend="sql-createcollation">collations</link> that report string equality for strings that are not byte-wise equal (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow the creation of <link
+ linkend="sql-createcollation">collations</link> that report
+ string equality for strings that are not byte-wise equal (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows case and accent-agnostic equality comparisons using "nondeterministic" collations. This is only supported for <acronym>ICU</acronym> collations.
-MENTION ITS AFFECT ON ORDERING?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows case and accent-agnostic equality comparisons using
+ "nondeterministic" collations. This is only supported for
+ <acronym>ICU</acronym> collations. MENTION ITS AFFECT ON ORDERING?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-05-08 [b84dbc8eb] Add TRUNCATE parameter to VACUUM.
-->
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="sql-vacuum"/> and <command>CREATE TABLE</command> options to prevent <command>VACUUM</command> from truncating trailing empty pages (Tsunakawa Takayuki)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="sql-vacuum"/> and <command>CREATE
+ TABLE</command> options to prevent <command>VACUUM</command>
+ from truncating trailing empty pages (Tsunakawa Takayuki)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The options are <varname>vacuum_truncate</varname> and <varname>toast.vacuum_truncate</varname>. This reduces vacuum locking requirements.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The options are <varname>vacuum_truncate</varname> and
+ <varname>toast.vacuum_truncate</varname>. This reduces vacuum
+ locking requirements.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-04 [a96c41fee] Allow VACUUM to be run with index cleanup disabled.
-->
-<para>
-Allow vacuum to avoid index cleanup with the <literal>INDEX_CLEANUP</literal> option (Masahiko Sawada)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow vacuum to avoid index cleanup with the
+ <literal>INDEX_CLEANUP</literal> option (Masahiko Sawada)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-04 [803b1301e] Add option SKIP_LOCKED to VACUUM and ANALYZE
-->
-<para>
-Add the ability to skip <command>VACUUM</command> and <command>ANALYZE</command> operations on tables that cannot be immediately locked (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add the ability to skip <command>VACUUM</command> and
+ <command>ANALYZE</command> operations on tables that cannot be
+ immediately locked (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This option is called <literal>SKIP_LOCKED</literal>.
-</para>
+ This option is called <literal>SKIP_LOCKED</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-29 [41b54ba78] Allow existing VACUUM options to take a Boolean argument
-->
-<para>
-Allow <command>VACUUM</command> to take optional boolean argument specifications (Masahiko Sawada)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <command>VACUUM</command> to take optional boolean argument
+ specifications (Masahiko Sawada)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-04 [ea569d64a] Add SETTINGS option to EXPLAIN, to print modified settin
-->
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="sql-explain"/> option <literal>SETTINGS</literal> to output non-default optimizer settings (Tomas Vondra)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="sql-explain"/> option
+ <literal>SETTINGS</literal> to output non-default optimizer
+ settings (Tomas Vondra)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This can also be output in auto-explain via <xref linkend="auto-explain"/>.<literal>log_settings</literal>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This can also be output in auto-explain via <xref
+ linkend="auto-explain"/>.<literal>log_settings</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-19 [01bde4fa4] Implement OR REPLACE option for CREATE AGGREGATE.
-->
-<para>
-Allow aggregates to be replaced (Andrew Gierth)
-</para>
+ Allow aggregates to be replaced (Andrew Gierth)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The command is <link linkend="sql-createaggregate"><command>CREATE OR REPLACE AGGREGATE</command></link>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The command is <link linkend="sql-createaggregate"><command>CREATE
+ OR REPLACE AGGREGATE</command></link>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-19 [590a87025] Ignore attempts to add TOAST table to shared or catalog
-->
-<para>
-Allow modifications of system tables using <xref linkend="sql-altertable"/> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow modifications of system tables using <xref
+ linkend="sql-altertable"/> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows modifications of <literal>reloptions</literal> and autovacuum settings.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows modifications of <literal>reloptions</literal> and
+ autovacuum settings.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-30 [5f5c01459] Allow RECORD and RECORD[] to be specified in function co
-->
-<para>
-Allow <type>RECORD</type> and <type>RECORD[]</type> to be specified as a function <link linkend="sql-createfunction">return-value record</link> (Elvis Pranskevichus)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <type>RECORD</type> and <type>RECORD[]</type> to be specified
+ as a function <link linkend="sql-createfunction">return-value
+ record</link> (Elvis Pranskevichus)
+ </para>
-<para>
-DETAIL?
-</para>
+ DETAIL?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-13 [f177660ab] Include all columns in default names for foreign key con
-->
-<para>
-Use all column names when creating default foreign key constraint names (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Use all column names when creating default foreign key constraint
+ names (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, only the first column name was used.
-</para>
+ Previously, only the first column name was used.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2018-09-24 [fd582317e] Sync our Snowball stemmer dictionaries with current upst
-->
-<para>
-Update Snowball stemmer dictionaries with support for new languages (Arthur Zakirov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Update Snowball stemmer dictionaries with support for new languages
+ (Arthur Zakirov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This adds additional stemming languages to <link linkend="textsearch">full text search</link>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This adds additional stemming languages to <link
+ linkend="textsearch">full text search</link>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-17 [b8f9a2a69] Add support for collation attributes on older ICU versio
-->
-<para>
-Add support for <acronym>ICU</acronym> collation customization attributes (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <acronym>ICU</acronym> collation customization
+ attributes (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allow modification of the collation rules. DETAILS?
-</para>
+ This allow modification of the collation rules. DETAILS?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-19 [2ece7c07d] Add text-vs-name cross-type operators, and unify name_op
-->
-<para>
-Allow data type <link linkend="datatype-oid">name</link> to more seamlessly be compared to other text types (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow data type <link linkend="datatype-oid">name</link> to more
+ seamlessly be compared to other text types (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-04-01 [0a02e2ae0] GIN support for @@ and @? jsonpath operators
-->
-<para>
-Add support for the <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> <link linkend="functions-json-processing-table">path</link> language (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Alexander Korotkov, Oleg Bartunov, Liudmila Mantrova)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for the <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> <link
+ linkend="functions-json-processing-table">path</link> language
+ (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Alexander Korotkov, Oleg Bartunov,
+ Liudmila Mantrova)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows execution of complex queries on <type>JSON</type> values using an <acronym>SQL</acronym>-standard language.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows execution of complex queries on <type>JSON</type>
+ values using an <acronym>SQL</acronym>-standard language.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-12 [f1d85aa98] Add support for hyperbolic functions, as well as log10()
-->
-<para>
-Add support for <link linkend="functions-math-hyp-table">hyperbolic functions</link> (Lætitia Avrot)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <link linkend="functions-math-hyp-table">hyperbolic
+ functions</link> (Lætitia Avrot)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Also add <function>log10()</function> as alias for <function>log()</function>, for standards compliance.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Also add <function>log10()</function> as alias for
+ <function>log()</function>, for standards compliance.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
2018-10-06 [e954a727f] Improve the accuracy of floating point statistical aggre
-->
-<para>
-Improve the accuracy of statistical aggregates like <link linkend="functions-aggregate-statistics-table"><function>variance()</function></link> by using more precise algorithms (Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve the accuracy of statistical aggregates like <link
+ linkend="functions-aggregate-statistics-table"><function>variance()</function></link>
+ by using more precise algorithms (Dean Rasheed)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-14 [600b04d6b] Add a timezone-specific variant of date_trunc().
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="functions-datetime-table"><function>date_trunc()</function></link> to have an additional argument to control the time zone (Vik Fearing, Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="functions-datetime-table"><function>date_trunc()</function></link>
+ to have an additional argument to control the time zone (Vik
+ Fearing, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is faster and simpler than using the <literal>AT TIME ZONE</literal> clause.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is faster and simpler than using the <literal>AT TIME
+ ZONE</literal> clause.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-09 [cf9846724] Improve behavior of to_timestamp()/to_date() functions
-->
-<para>
-Adjust <link linkend="functions-formatting-table"><function>to_timestamp()</function></link>/<function>to_date()</function> functions to be more forgiving of template mismatches (Artur Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, Liudmila Mantrova)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Adjust <link
+ linkend="functions-formatting-table"><function>to_timestamp()</function></link>/<function>to_date()</function>
+ functions to be more forgiving of template mismatches (Artur
+ Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, Liudmila Mantrova)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This new behavior more closely matches the <productname>Oracle</productname> functions of the same name. DETAILS?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This new behavior more closely matches the
+ <productname>Oracle</productname> functions of the same name.
+ DETAILS?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-07 [251cf2e27] Fix minor deficiencies in XMLTABLE, xpath(), xmlexists()
-->
-<para>
-Improve node detection and escaping of <link linkend="functions-xml"><acronym>XML</acronym> functions</link> (Pavel Stěhule, Markus Winand, Chapman Flack)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve node detection and escaping of <link
+ linkend="functions-xml"><acronym>XML</acronym> functions</link>
+ (Pavel Stěhule, Markus Winand, Chapman Flack)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Specifically, in <literal>XMLTABLE</literal>, <function>xpath()</function>, and <function>xmlexists()</function>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Specifically, in <literal>XMLTABLE</literal>,
+ <function>xpath()</function>, and <function>xmlexists()</function>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-07 [eaaa5986a] Fix the BY {REF,VALUE} clause of XMLEXISTS/XMLTABLE
-->
-<para>
-Allow the <literal>XML BY VALUE</literal> clause (Chapman Flack)
-</para>
+ Allow the <literal>XML BY VALUE</literal> clause (Chapman Flack)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The clause has no effect.
-</para>
+ The clause has no effect.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-27 [5bde1651b] Switch function current_schema[s]() to be parallel-unsaf
-->
-<para>
-Prevent <link linkend="functions-info-session-table"><function>current_schema()</function></link> and <function>current_schemas()</function> from being run by parallel workers (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Prevent <link
+ linkend="functions-info-session-table"><function>current_schema()</function></link>
+ and <function>current_schemas()</function> from being run by
+ parallel workers (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-01-04 [4879a5172] Support plpgsql variable names that conflict with unrese
-->
-<para>
-Allow commands and variables with the same name as commands to be used in the same
-PL/pgSQL function (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ Allow commands and variables with the same name as commands to
+ be used in the same PL/pgSQL function (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-For example, allow a variable called comment to exist in the same function that calls the comment <acronym>SQL</acronym> command.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ For example, allow a variable called comment to exist in the same
+ function that calls the comment <acronym>SQL</acronym> command.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-25 [167075be3] Add strict_multi_assignment and too_many_rows plpgsql ch
-->
-<para>
-Add new optional warning and error checks to PL/pgSQL (Pavel Stěhule)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add new optional warning and error checks to PL/pgSQL (Pavel
+ Stěhule)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new checks allow for run-time validation of <literal>INTO</literal> column counts and single-row results.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The new checks allow for run-time validation of
+ <literal>INTO</literal> column counts and single-row results.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-02-18 [050710b36] Add bytea datatype to ECPG.
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="app-ecpg"/> to create variables of data type bytea (Ryo Matsumura)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="app-ecpg"/> to create variables of data type
+ bytea (Ryo Matsumura)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows to interaction with <type>bytea</type> data directly, rather than using a binary encoding.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows to interaction with <type>bytea</type> data directly,
+ rather than using a binary encoding.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-16 [bd7c95f0c] Add DECLARE STATEMENT support to ECPG.
-->
-<para>
-Add <command>DECLARE STATEMENT</command> support to <productname>ECPG</productname> (Takeshi Ideriha, Hayato Kuroda)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <command>DECLARE STATEMENT</command> support to
+ <productname>ECPG</productname> (Takeshi Ideriha, Hayato Kuroda)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows statements to be associated with named connections, so future operations like cursors don't need to re-reference the connection name.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows statements to be associated with named connections,
+ so future operations like cursors don't need to re-reference the
+ connection name.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-06 [249d64999] Add support TCP user timeout in libpq and the backend se
-->
-<para>
-Add parameter to control libpq's <acronym>TCP</acronym> timeout (Ryohei Nagaura)
-</para>
-
-<para>
+ <para>
+ Add parameter to control libpq's <acronym>TCP</acronym> timeout
+ (Ryohei Nagaura)
+ </para>
-The parameter is <xref linkend="libpq-tcp-user-timeout"/>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The parameter is <xref linkend="libpq-tcp-user-timeout"/>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-04 [7bac3acab] Add a "SQLSTATE-only" error verbosity option to libpq an
-->
-<para>
-Allow libpq to report the <literal>SQLSTATE</literal> to output only this value (Didier Gautheron)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow libpq to report the <literal>SQLSTATE</literal> to output
+ only this value (Didier Gautheron)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-11 [2970afa6c] Add PQresultMemorySize function to report allocated size
-->
-<para>
-Add libpq function to report the memory size of the query result (Lars Kanis, Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq function to report the memory size of the query result
+ (Lars Kanis, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function is <link linkend="libpq-pqresultmemorysize"><function>PQresultMemorySize()</function></link>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function is <link
+ linkend="libpq-pqresultmemorysize"><function>PQresultMemorySize()</function></link>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-07 [1fea1e325] libpq: Change "options" dispchar to normal
-->
-<para>
-Remove the no-display/debug flag from the libpq <literal>options</literal> parameter (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove the no-display/debug flag from the libpq
+ <literal>options</literal> parameter (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows the option to be used by <application>postgres_fdw</application>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows the option to be used by
+ <application>postgres_fdw</application>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-04-01 [cc8d41511] Unified logging system for command-line programs
-->
-<para>
-Add colorization to the output of command-line utilities (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add colorization to the output of command-line utilities (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is enabled with by setting environment variable <envar>PG_COLORS</envar>. EXAMPLE?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is enabled with by setting environment variable
+ <envar>PG_COLORS</envar>. EXAMPLE?
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2018-11-26 [aa2ba50c2] Add CSV table output mode in psql.
-->
-<para>
-Add <acronym>CSV</acronym> table output mode in <application>psql</application> (Daniel Vérité)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <acronym>CSV</acronym> table output mode in
+ <application>psql</application> (Daniel Vérité)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is controlled by <command>\pset format csv</command> or the command-line <option>--csv</option> option.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is controlled by <command>\pset format csv</command> or the
+ command-line <option>--csv</option> option.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-11 [27f3dea64] psql: Add documentation URL to \help output
-->
-<para>
-Show the manual page <acronym>URL</acronym> in <application>psql</application>'s <command>\help</command> output (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Show the manual page <acronym>URL</acronym> in
+ <application>psql</application>'s <command>\help</command> output
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-19 [6e5f8d489] psql: Show IP address in \conninfo
-->
-<para>
-Display the <acronym>IP</acronym> address in <application>psql</application>'s <command>\conninfo</command> (Fabien Coelho)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Display the <acronym>IP</acronym> address in
+ <application>psql</application>'s <command>\conninfo</command>
+ (Fabien Coelho)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-21 [121213d9d] Improve tab completion for ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, and VACUUM.
-->
-<para>
-Improve tab completion of <command>CREATE TABLE, CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE EVENT TRIGGER, ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, VACUUM, ALTER TABLE, ALTER INDEX, ALTER DATABASE, ALTER INDEX ALTER COLUMN</command> (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Tatsuro Yamada, Michaël Paquier, Tom Lane, Justin Pryzby)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve tab completion of <command>CREATE TABLE, CREATE TRIGGER,
+ CREATE EVENT TRIGGER, ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, VACUUM, ALTER TABLE,
+ ALTER INDEX, ALTER DATABASE, ALTER INDEX ALTER COLUMN</command>
+ (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Tatsuro Yamada, Michaël Paquier,
+ Tom Lane, Justin Pryzby)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-25 [25ee70511] pgbench: Remove \cset
-->
-<para>
-Allow values produced by queries to be assigned to pgbench variables (Fabien Coelho, Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow values produced by queries to be assigned to pgbench
+ variables (Fabien Coelho, Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The commands is <command>\gset</command>.
-</para>
+ The commands is <command>\gset</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-25 [5b7e03670] Avoid unnecessary precision loss for pgbench's - -rate ta
-->
-<para>
-Compute behavior based on pgbench's <option>--rate</option> value more precisely (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Compute behavior based on pgbench's <option>--rate</option>
+ value more precisely (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
2018-10-15 [5b75a4f82] pgbench: Report errors during run better
-->
-<para>
-Improve pgbench error reporting with clearer messages and return codes (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve pgbench error reporting with clearer messages and return
+ codes (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-01-31 [00d1e88d3] Add - -min-xid-age and - -min-mxid-age options to vacuumdb
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="app-vacuumdb"/> to select tables for vacuum based on their wraparound horizon (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="app-vacuumdb"/> to select tables for vacuum
+ based on their wraparound horizon (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The options are <option>--min-xid-age</option> and <option>--min-mxid-age</option>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The options are <option>--min-xid-age</option> and
+ <option>--min-mxid-age</option>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-08 [354e95d1f] Add - -disable-page-skipping and - -skip-locked to vacuumd
-->
-<para>
-Add vacuumdb to disable waiting for locks or skipping all-visible pages (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add vacuumdb to disable waiting for locks or skipping all-visible
+ pages (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The options are <option>--skip-locked</option> and <option>--disable-page-skipping</option>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The options are <option>--skip-locked</option> and
+ <option>--disable-page-skipping</option>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-01 [ec7436993] Implement "pg_ctl logrotate" command
-->
-<para>
-Allow control of log file rotation via <xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"/> (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Alexander Korotkov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow control of log file rotation via <xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"/>
+ (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously, this was only possible via an <acronym>SQL</acronym> function or a process signal.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Previously, this was only possible via an <acronym>SQL</acronym>
+ function or a process signal.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-14 [bb24439ce] Detach postmaster process from pg_ctl's session at serve
-->
-<para>
-Properly detach the server on <application>pg_ctl</application> start (Paul Guo)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Properly detach the server on <application>pg_ctl</application>
+ start (Paul Guo)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This prevents later shell activity from interfering with the postmaster.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This prevents later shell activity from interfering with the
+ postmaster.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-07 [3a769d823] pg_upgrade: Allow use of file cloning
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="pgupgrade"/> to use the file system cloning feature (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="pgupgrade"/> to use the file system cloning
+ feature (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The <option>--clone</option> option has the advantages of <option>--link</option>, while preventing the old cluster from being changed after the new cluster has started.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The <option>--clone</option> option has the advantages of
+ <option>--link</option>, while preventing the old cluster from
+ being changed after the new cluster has started.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-01 [2d34ad843] Add a - -socketdir option to pg_upgrade.
-->
-<para>
-Allow specification of the <application>pg_upgrade</application> socket directory (Daniel Gustafsson)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow specification of the <application>pg_upgrade</application>
+ socket directory (Daniel Gustafsson)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is controlled by <option>--socketdir</option>; the default is the current directory.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is controlled by <option>--socketdir</option>; the default
+ is the current directory.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-13 [23bd3cec6] Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/loca
-->
-<para>
-Have <xref linkend="app-initdb"/> determine the local timezone from the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> symbolic link, if it exists (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Have <xref linkend="app-initdb"/> determine the local timezone
+ from the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> symbolic link,
+ if it exists (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is more likely to produce the desired time zone string when multiple identical time zones exist.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This is more likely to produce the desired time zone string when
+ multiple identical time zones exist.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-23 [e0090c869] Add option -N/- -no-sync to pg_checksums
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> to disable fsync operations (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="app-pgchecksums"/> to disable fsync operations
+ (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is controlled by the <option>--no-sync</option> option.
-</para>
+ This is controlled by the <option>--no-sync</option> option.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-10 [8a00b96aa] Add pg_rewind - -no-sync
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="app-pgrewind"/> to disable fsync operations (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="app-pgrewind"/> to disable fsync operations
+ (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-07 [7e413a0f8] pg_dump: allow multiple rows per insert
-->
-<para>
-Allow control over the number of rows each <application>pg_dump</application> <command>INSERT</command> statement uses (Surafel Temesgen, David Rowley)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow control over the number of rows each
+ <application>pg_dump</application> <command>INSERT</command>
+ statement uses (Surafel Temesgen, David Rowley)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The option is <option>--rows-per-insert</option>.
-</para>
+ The option is <option>--rows-per-insert</option>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-01 [f092de050] Add - -exclude-database option to pg_dumpall
-->
-<para>
-Add <option>--exclude-database</option> option to <application>pg_dumpall</application> (Andrew Dunstan)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <option>--exclude-database</option> option to
+ <application>pg_dumpall</application> (Andrew Dunstan)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-13 [387a5cfb9] Add pg_dump - -on-conflict-do-nothing option.
-->
-<para>
-Allow restoration of an <command>INSERT</command>-statement dump to skip rows which would cause conflicts (Surafel Temesgen)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow restoration of an <command>INSERT</command>-statement dump
+ to skip rows which would cause conflicts (Surafel Temesgen)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The <application>pg_dump</application> option is <option>--on-conflict-do-nothing</option>.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The <application>pg_dump</application> option is
+ <option>--on-conflict-do-nothing</option>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-14 [548e50976] Improve parallel scheduling logic in pg_dump/pg_restore.
-->
-<para>
-Decouple the order of parallel <application>pg_dump</application> from the order used by <application>pg_restore</application> (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Decouple the order of parallel <application>pg_dump</application>
+ from the order used by <application>pg_restore</application>
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows <application>pg_restore</application> to perform more efficient parallel restores.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This allows <application>pg_restore</application> to perform more
+ efficient parallel restores.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-18 [af25bc03e] Provide an extra-float-digits setting for pg_dump / pg_d
-->
-<para>
-Allow the number of float digits to be specified for <application>pg_dump</application> and <application>pg_dumpall</application> (Andrew Dunstan)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow the number of float digits to be specified
+ for <application>pg_dump</application> and
+ <application>pg_dumpall</application> (Andrew Dunstan)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows the float digit output to match previous dumps.
-</para>
+ This allows the float digit output to match previous dumps.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-31 [bfbcad478] tableam: bitmap table scan.
-->
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="sql-create-access-method"/> command to create new table types (Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Dimitri Dolgov)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="sql-create-access-method"/> command to create
+ new table types (Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera,
+ Dimitri Dolgov)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-12-13 [09568ec3d] Create a separate oid range for oids assigned by genbki.
-->
-<para>
-Reserve a range of oids (9000-9999) to be used for external extensions (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Reserve a range of oids (9000-9999) to be used for external
+ extensions (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-02 [a33245a85] Don't build static libraries on Cygwin
-->
-<para>
-Build <productname>Cygwin</productname> binaries using dynamic instead of static libraries (Marco Atzeri)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Build <productname>Cygwin</productname> binaries using dynamic
+ instead of static libraries (Marco Atzeri)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-01 [1707a0d2a] Remove configure switch - -disable-strong-random
-->
-<para>
-Remove <application>configure</application> switch <option>--disable-strong-random</option> (Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Remove <application>configure</application> switch
+ <option>--disable-strong-random</option> (Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-A strong random source is now required.
-</para>
+ A strong random source is now required.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-26 [26e9d4d4e] Convert elog.c's useful_strerror() into a globally-used
-->
-<para>
-Properly report Winsock errors on <productname>Windows</productname> (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Properly report Winsock errors on
+ <productname>Windows</productname> (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-23 [d9dd406fe] Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).
-->
-<para>
-Require a C99-supported compiler, and <acronym>MSVC</acronym> 2013 or later on <productname>Windows</productname> (Andres Freund)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Require a C99-supported compiler, and <acronym>MSVC</acronym>
+ 2013 or later on <productname>Windows</productname> (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-03-27 [ea55aec0a] doc: Add some images
-->
-<para>
-Add images to the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> documentation (Jürgen Purtz)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add images to the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ documentation (Jürgen Purtz)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-03-29 [c900c1526] Warn more strongly about the dangers of exclusive backup
-->
-<para>
-More clearly document the problems of server failure during <link linkend="backup-lowlevel-base-backup-exclusive">exclusive base backups</link> (David Steele, Robert Haas)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ More clearly document the problems of server failure during <link
+ linkend="backup-lowlevel-base-backup-exclusive">exclusive base
+ backups</link> (David Steele, Robert Haas)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-10-09 [36e9d413a] Add "B" suffix for bytes to docs
-->
-<para>
-Document that the <literal>B</literal>/bytes units can be specified for <link linkend="config-setting">server variables</link> (Greg Stark)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Document that the <literal>B</literal>/bytes units can be specified
+ for <link linkend="config-setting">server variables</link>
+ (Greg Stark)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-24 [c62dd80cd] Document aclitem functions and operators
-->
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="functions-aclitem-op-table">documentation</link> for <type>aclitem</type> functions and operators (Fabien Coelho, John Naylor)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="functions-aclitem-op-table">documentation</link>
+ for <type>aclitem</type> functions and operators (Fabien Coelho,
+ John Naylor)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-04-26 [60bbf0753] doc: Update section on NFS
-->
-<para>
-Update documentation on the use of <link linkend="creating-cluster-nfs"><acronym>NFS</acronym></link> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Update documentation on the use of <link
+ linkend="creating-cluster-nfs"><acronym>NFS</acronym></link>
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2019-04-02 [d50d172e5] postgres_fdw: Perform the (FINAL, NULL) upperrel operati
-->
-<para>
-Allow more <literal>ORDER BY</literal> sorts and <literal>LIMIT</literal> clauses to be pushed to <application>postgres_fdw</application> foreign tables (Etsuro Fujita)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow more <literal>ORDER BY</literal> sorts and
+ <literal>LIMIT</literal> clauses to be pushed to
+ <application>postgres_fdw</application> foreign tables (Etsuro
+ Fujita)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-05-09 [edbcbe277] postgres_fdw: Fix cost estimation for aggregate pushdown
-->
-<para>
-Improve optimizer cost accounting for pushdown of aggregates to <xref linkend="postgres-fdw"/> tables (Etsuro Fujita)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimizer cost accounting for pushdown of aggregates to
+ <xref linkend="postgres-fdw"/> tables (Etsuro Fujita)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This release also improves costing of <application>postgres_fdw</application> target list generation.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ This release also improves costing of
+ <application>postgres_fdw</application> target list generation.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-08 [a45adc747] Fix WITH CHECK OPTION on views referencing postgres_fdw
-->
-<para>
-Properly honor <literal>WITH CHECK OPTION</literal> on views that reference <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables (Etsuro Fujita)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Properly honor <literal>WITH CHECK OPTION</literal> on views
+ that reference <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables
+ (Etsuro Fujita)
+ </para>
-<para>
-While <literal>CHECK OPTION</literal>s on <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables are ignored (because the reference is foreign), views on such tables are considered local, so this release enforces <literal>CHECK
-OPTION</literal>s on them. Previously, only <command>INSERT</command>s and <command>UPDATE</command>s with <literal>RETURNING</literal> clauses that returned <literal>CHECK OPTION</literal> values were validated.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ While <literal>CHECK OPTION</literal>s on
+ <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables are ignored (because
+ the reference is foreign), views on such tables are considered
+ local, so this release enforces <literal>CHECK OPTION</literal>s
+ on them. Previously, only <command>INSERT</command>s and
+ <command>UPDATE</command>s with <literal>RETURNING</literal>
+ clauses that returned <literal>CHECK OPTION</literal> values
+ were validated.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-11 [43cbedab8] Extend pg_stat_statements_reset to reset statistics spec
-->
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="pgstatstatements"><function>pg_stat_statements_reset()</function></link> to be more granular (Haribabu Kommi, Amit Kapila)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="pgstatstatements"><function>pg_stat_statements_reset()</function></link>
+ to be more granular (Haribabu Kommi, Amit Kapila)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function now allows reset of statistics for specific databases, users, and queries.
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function now allows reset of statistics for specific databases,
+ users, and queries.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-07-31 [2d36a5e9d] Provide a log_level setting for auto_explain
-->
-<para>
-Allow control of the <xref linkend="auto-explain"/> log level (Tom Dunstan, Andrew Dunstan)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow control of the <xref linkend="auto-explain"/> log level
+ (Tom Dunstan, Andrew Dunstan)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The default is <literal>LOG</literal>.
-</para>
+ The default is <literal>LOG</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-01-10 [e1c1d5444] Update unaccent rules with release 34 of CLDR for Latin-
-->
-<para>
-Update <application>unaccent</application> rules with new punctuation and symbols (Hugh Ranalli, Michaël Paquier)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Update <application>unaccent</application> rules with new
+ punctuation and symbols (Hugh Ranalli, Michaël Paquier)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2019-02-01 [456e3718e] Add combining characters to unaccent.rules.
-->
-<para>
-Allow <xref linkend="unaccent"/> to handle some accents encoded as combining characters (Hugh Ranalli)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <xref linkend="unaccent"/> to handle some accents encoded
+ as combining characters (Hugh Ranalli)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-09-02 [5e8d670c3] Add Greek characters to unaccent.rules.
-->
-<para>
-Allow <application>unaccent</application> to remove accents from Greek characters (Tasos Maschalidis)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>unaccent</application> to remove accents from
+ Greek characters (Tasos Maschalidis)
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-23 [48c41fa97] Add a 64-bit hash function for type <type>citext</type>.
-->
-<para>
-Add 64-bit hash function to <xref linkend="citext"/> (Amul Sul)
-</para>
+ Add 64-bit hash function to <xref linkend="citext"/> (Amul Sul)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function <function>citext_hash_extended()</function> also requires a seed value. NO DOCS?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function <function>citext_hash_extended()</function> also
+ requires a seed value. NO DOCS?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-11-23 [eb6f29141] Add a 64-bit hash function for type <application>hstore</application>.
-->
-<para>
-Add 64-bit hash function to <xref linkend="hstore"/> (Amul Sul)
-</para>
+ Add 64-bit hash function to <xref linkend="hstore"/> (Amul Sul)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The function <function>hstore_hash_extended()</function> also requires a seed value. NO DOCS?
-</para>
+ <para>
+ The function <function>hstore_hash_extended()</function> also
+ requires a seed value. NO DOCS?
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
2018-08-28 [bfea331a5] Rework option set of vacuumlo
-->
-<para>
-Improve <xref linkend="oid2name"/> and <xref linkend="vacuumlo"/> option handling to match other commands (Tatsuro Yamada)
-</para>
+ <para>
+ Improve <xref linkend="oid2name"/> and <xref linkend="vacuumlo"/>
+ option handling to match other commands (Tatsuro Yamada)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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