<formalpara>
<title>Release date:</title>
- <para>2017-09-XX (CURRENT AS OF 2017-05-14)</para>
+ <para>2017-??-?? (current as of 2017-07-09, commit 3381898f9)</para>
</formalpara>
<sect2>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para> </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>(to be written)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
<listitem>
<!--
2017-04-03 [ea69a0dea] Expand hash indexes more gradually.
+2017-05-19 [a95410e2e] pg_upgrade: Handle hash index upgrades more smoothly.
-->
<para>
<application>pg_upgrade</>-ed hash indexes from previous major
-->
<para>
Make all <application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></> actions wait
- by default for completion (Peter Eisentraut)
+ for completion by default (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<!--
+2017-06-20 [a69dfe5f4] Don't downcase entries within shared_preload_libraries e
+-->
+ <para>
+ Don't downcase unquoted text
+ within <xref linkend="guc-shared-preload-libraries"> and related
+ settings (QL Zhuo)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These settings are really lists of file names, but they were
+ previously treated as lists of SQL identifiers, which have different
+ parsing rules.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2016-10-12 [64f3524e2] Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8
-->
<para>
<!--
2017-03-24 [7b504eb28] Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
2017-04-05 [2686ee1b7] Collect and use multi-column dependency stats
+2017-05-12 [bc085205c] Change CREATE STATISTICS syntax
-->
<para>
Add multi-column optimizer statistics to compute the correlation
<listitem>
<!--
2017-04-07 [9c7f5229a] Optimize joins when the inner relation can be proven uni
+2017-06-03 [23886581b] Fix old corner-case logic error in final_cost_nestloop()
-->
<para>
Use uniqueness guarantees to optimize certain join types (David
<!--
2016-12-20 [1753b1b02] Add pg_sequence system catalog
2016-11-18 [67dc4ccbb] Add pg_sequences view
+2017-05-15 [f8dc1985f] Fix ALTER SEQUENCE locking
+2017-06-01 [3d79013b9] Make ALTER SEQUENCE, including RESTART, fully transactio
-->
<para>
Create a <link
</para>
<para>
- Sequence metadata includes start, increment, etc,
- which is now transactional. Sequence counters are
- still stored in separate heap relations. Also add <link
- linkend="view-pg-sequences"><structname>pg_sequences</></> view
- to show all sequences.
+ Sequence metadata includes the start, increment, etc, properties.
+ <command>ALTER SEQUENCE</> updates are now fully transactional,
+ implying that the sequence is locked until commit. Sequences'
+ current values are still stored in individual table files, and
+ the <function>nextval()</> and <function>setval()</> functions
+ remain nontransactional.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Also
+ add <link linkend="view-pg-sequences"><structname>pg_sequences</></>
+ view to show all sequences.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2016-11-03 [274bb2b38] libpq: Allow connection strings and URIs to specify mult
+2017-05-19 [5f374fe7a] libpq: Try next host if one of them times out.
-->
<para>
- Allow libpq to connect to <link
- linkend="libpq-connect-host">multiple specified</> host names
+ Allow specification of <link
+ linkend="libpq-connect-host">multiple host names</> in libpq
+ connection strings and URIs
(Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
- libpq will connect with the first responsive host name.
+ libpq will connect to the first responsive server in the list.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2016-09-29 [bc34223bc] pg_basebackup pg_receivexlog: Issue fsync more carefully
-2016-09-29 [6ed2d8584] pg_basebackup: Add - option
+2016-09-29 [6ed2d8584] pg_basebackup: Add -\-nosync option
-->
<para>
Improve fsync handling of <application>pg_basebackup</> and
2016-10-19 [caf936b09] pg_ctl: Add long option for -o
-->
<para>
- Add long options flag for <application>pg_ctl</>
- <literal>options</> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add long option for <application>pg_ctl</> server options
+ (<option>--options</>) (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
+2017-06-28 [f13ea95f9] Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status
+-->
+ <para>
+ Make <literal>pg_ctl start --wait</> detect server-ready by
+ watching <filename>postmaster.pid</>, not by attempting connections
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The postmaster has been changed to report its ready-for-connections
+ status in <filename>postmaster.pid</>, and <application>pg_ctl</>
+ now examines that file to detect whether startup is complete.
+ This is more efficient and reliable than the old method, and it
+ eliminates postmaster log entries about rejected connection
+ attempts during startup.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
+2017-06-26 [c61559ec3] Reduce pg_ctl's reaction time when waiting for postmaste
+-->
+ <para>
+ Reduce <application>pg_ctl</>'s reaction time when waiting for
+ postmaster start/stop (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- It is called <option>--options</>.
+ <application>pg_ctl</> now probes ten times per second when waiting
+ for a postmaster state change, rather than once per second.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
+2017-07-05 [1bac5f552] pg_ctl: Make failure to complete operation a nonzero exi
+-->
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <application>pg_ctl</> exits with nonzero status if an
+ operation being waited for does not complete within the timeout
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <literal>start</> and <literal>promote</> operations now return
+ exit status 1, not 0, in such cases. The <literal>stop</> operation
+ has always done that.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
+2017-06-21 [8ff6d4ec7] Adjust pgindent script to use pg_bsd_indent 2.0.
+2017-06-21 [e3860ffa4] Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
+2017-06-21 [c7b8998eb] Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
+2017-06-21 [382ceffdf] Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
+2017-06-21 [81f056c72] Remove entab and associated detritus.
+-->
+ <para>
+ Improve behavior of <application>pgindent</>
+ (Piotr Stefaniak, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have switched to a new version of <application>pg_bsd_indent</>
+ based on recent improvements made by the FreeBSD project. This
+ fixes numerous small bugs that led to odd C code formatting
+ decisions. Most notably, lines within parentheses (such as in a
+ multi-line function call) are now uniformly indented to match the
+ opening paren, even if that would result in code extending past the
+ right margin.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2017-03-23 [eccfef81e] ICU support
-->
<para>
<listitem>
<!--
2016-12-05 [fe0a0b599] Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, secon
+2017-07-03 [bf723a274] Forbid gen_random_uuid() with -\-disable-strong-random
-->
<para>
Add more robust random number generators to be used for
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