<title>Overview</title>
<para>
- NARRATIVE HERE. Major enhancements include:
+ This release has been largely focused on performance improvements, though
+ new SQL features are not lacking. Work also continues in the area of
+ replication support. Major enhancements include:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>MAJOR LIST HERE</para></listitem>
+
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+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow queries to retrieve data only from indexes, avoiding heap
+ access (<firstterm>index-only scans</>)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the planner to generate custom plans for specific parameter
+ values even when using prepared statements
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve the planner's ability to use nested loops with inner
+ index scans
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow streaming replication slaves to forward data to other slaves
+ (<link linkend="cascading-replication"><firstterm>cascading
+ replication</></link>)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add a <link
+ linkend="app-pgreceivexlog"><application>pg_receivexlog</></link>
+ tool to archive WAL file changes as they are written
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned
+ GiST) index access method
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <link linkend="rangetypes">range data types</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add a <link linkend="datatype-json"><type>JSON</type></link>
+ data type
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add a <link
+ linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW"><literal>security_barrier</></link>
+ option for views
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a
+ <link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add a <link linkend="libpq-single-row-mode">single-row processing
+ mode</link> to <application>libpq</> for better handling of large
+ result sets
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow connection strings to have the format of a <link
- linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link> (Alexander
- Shulgin)
+ Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a
+ <link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link>
+ (Alexander Shulgin)
</para>
<para>