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- Reduce locking requirements of sequential scans (Qingqing
- Zhou)
+ Increase default values for <envar>shared_buffers</> and
+ <envar>max_fsm_pages</>(Andrew)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve subtransaction performance (Alvaro, Itagaki Takahiro,
- Tom)
+ Improve sorting speed and reduce memory usage (Simon, Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve locking performance by breaking locks into sections
- (Tom)
+ Improve subtransaction performance (Alvaro, Itagaki Takahiro,
+ Tom)
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- This allows locking to be more fine-grained, reducing
- contention.
+ Improve <command>COPY</> performance (Alon Goldshuv, Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow the planner to re-order <literal>OUTER JOIN</>s when
- possible (Tom)
+ Add <literal>FILLFACTOR</> to table and index creation
+ (ITAGAKI Takahiro)
</para>
<para>
- This makes a considerable difference for queries involving
- multiple outer joins.
+ This adds extra free space to each heap or index page,
+ allowing improved performance as the database grows. This
+ is particularly valuable to maintain <command>CLUSTER</>ing.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve planning of joins to inherited tables and <literal>UNION
- ALL</> views (Tom)
+ Improve locking performance by breaking locks into sections
+ (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This allows locking to be more fine-grained, reducing
+ contention.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Increase default values for <envar>shared_buffers</> and
- <envar>max_fsm_pages</>(Andrew)
+ Reduce locking requirements of sequential scans (Qingqing
+ Zhou)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve the optimizer statistics used by <literal>LIKE</>,
- <literal>ILIKE</>, and regular expression operations (Tom)
+ Reduce locking required for database creation and destruction
+ (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow constraint exclusion to be applied to inherited
- <command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</> queries (Tom)
+ Allow the planner to re-order <literal>OUTER JOIN</>s when
+ possible (Tom)
</para>
<para>
- <command>SELECT</> already honored constraint exclusion.
+ This makes a considerable difference for queries involving
+ multiple outer joins.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve sorting speed and reduce memory usage (Simon, Tom)
+ Improve the optimizer statistics used by <literal>LIKE</>,
+ <literal>ILIKE</>, and regular expression operations (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <function>MIN()</>/<function>MAX()</> can now use indexes
- in more cases (Tom)
+ Improve planning of joins to inherited tables and <literal>UNION
+ ALL</> views (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve concurrency for database creation and destruction
- (Tom)
+ Allow constraint exclusion to be applied to inherited
+ <command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</> queries (Tom)
</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
<para>
- Speed up vacuuming of btree indexes (Heikki Linnakangas,
- Tom)
+ <command>SELECT</> already honored constraint exclusion.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve <command>COPY</> performance (Alon Goldshuv, Tom)
+ <function>MIN()</>/<function>MAX()</> can now use indexes
+ in more cases (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>FILLFACTOR</> to table and index creation
- (ITAGAKI Takahiro)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This adds extra free space to each heap or index page,
- allowing improved performance as the database grows. This
- is particularly valuable to maintain <command>CLUSTER</>ing.
+ Speed up vacuuming of btree indexes (Heikki Linnakangas,
+ Tom)
</para>
</listitem>