From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 03:53:33 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update 9.3 release notes. X-Git-Tag: REL9_3_0~5 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3234a64f454cf9f2f6b8df24a551bec0ecfdd74b;p=postgresql Update 9.3 release notes. Some corrections, a lot of copy-editing. Set projected release date as 2013-09-09. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml index fc9d9db93f..01ac4a4d07 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml @@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ Release Date - 2013-XX-XX, CURRENT AS OF 2013-08-16 + 2013-09-09 Overview - Major enhancements include: + Major enhancements in PostgreSQL 9.3 include: @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ - Many JSON improvements, including the addition of operators and functions to extract - values from JSON data strings + Add many features for the JSON data type, + including operators and functions + to extract elements from JSON values @@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ - Add a Postgres foreign - data wrapper contrib module + Add a Postgres foreign + data wrapper to allow access to + other Postgres servers @@ -81,25 +82,17 @@ - Allow a streaming replication standby to follow a timeline switch, - and faster failover + Prevent non-key-field row updates from blocking foreign key checks - Dramatically reduce System V shared + Greatly reduce System V shared memory requirements - - - Prevent non-key-field row updates from locking foreign key rows - - - @@ -158,7 +151,7 @@ Users who have set work_mem based on the - previous behavior should revisit that setting. + previous behavior may need to revisit that setting. @@ -173,76 +166,112 @@ - Throw an error if expiring tuple is again updated or deleted (Kevin Grittner) - DETAILS? + Throw an error if a tuple to be updated or deleted has already been + updated or deleted by a BEFORE trigger (Kevin Grittner) + + + + Formerly, the originally-intended update was silently skipped, + resulting in logical inconsistency since the trigger might have + propagated data to other places based on the intended update. + Now an error is thrown to prevent the inconsistent results from being + committed. If this change affects your application, the best solution + is usually to move the data-propagation actions to + an AFTER trigger. + + + + This error will also be thrown if a query invokes a volatile function + that modifies rows that are later modified by the query itself. + Such cases likewise previously resulted in silently skipping updates. - Change ON UPDATE + Change multicolumn ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT foreign key actions to affect - all referenced columns, not just those referenced in the + all columns of the constraint, not just those changed in the UPDATE (Tom Lane) - Previously only columns referenced in the UPDATE were - set to null or DEFAULT. + Previously, we would set only those referencing columns that + correspond to referenced columns that were changed by + the UPDATE. This was what was required by SQL-92, + but more recent editions of the SQL standard specify the new behavior. - Internally store default foreign key matches (non-FULL, - non-PARTIAL) as simple (Tom Lane) + Force cached plans to be replanned if the search_path changes + (Tom Lane) - These were previously stored as "<unspecified>". - This changes the value stored in system column pg_constraint.confmatchtype. + Previously, cached plans already generated in the current session were + not redone if the query was re-executed with a + new search_path setting, resulting in surprising behavior. - Store WAL in a continuous - stream, rather than skipping the last 16MB segment every 4GB - (Heikki Linnakangas) + Fix to_number() + to properly handle a period used as a thousands separator (Tom Lane) - Previously, WAL files with names ending in FF - were not used. If you have WAL backup or restore scripts - that took that skipping into account, they will need to be adjusted. + Previously, a period was considered to be a decimal point even when + the locale says it isn't and the D format code is used to + specify use of the locale-specific decimal point. This resulted in + wrong answers if FM format was also used. - Allow to_char() - to properly handle D (locale-specific decimal point) and - FM (fill mode) specifications in locales where a - period is a group separator and not a decimal point (Tom Lane) + Fix STRICT non-set-returning functions that have + set-returning functions in their arguments to properly return null + rows (Tom Lane) - Previously, a period group separator would be misinterpreted as - a decimal point in such locales. + A null value passed to the strict function should result in a null + output, but instead, that output row was suppressed entirely. - Fix STRICT non-set-returning functions that take - set-returning functions as arguments to properly return null - rows (Tom Lane) + Store WAL in a continuous + stream, rather than skipping the last 16MB segment every 4GB + (Heikki Linnakangas) - Previously, rows with null values were suppressed. + Previously, WAL files with names ending in FF + were not used because of this skipping. If you have WAL + backup or restore scripts that took this behavior into account, they + will need to be adjusted. + + + + + + In pg_constraint.confmatchtype, + store the default foreign key match type (non-FULL, + non-PARTIAL) as s for simple + (Tom Lane) + + + + Previously this case was represented by u + for unspecified. @@ -271,36 +300,28 @@ - Prevent non-key-field row updates from locking foreign key rows + Prevent non-key-field row updates from blocking foreign key checks (Álvaro Herrera, Noah Misch, Andres Freund, Alexander - Shulgin, Marti Raudsepp) + Shulgin, Marti Raudsepp, Alexander Shulgin) - This improves concurrency and reduces the probability of deadlocks. - UPDATEs on non-key columns use the new SELECT - FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock type, and foreign key checks use the - new SELECT FOR KEY SHARE lock mode. + This change improves concurrency and reduces the probability of + deadlocks when updating tables involved in a foreign-key constraint. + UPDATEs that do not change any columns referenced in a + foreign key now take the new NO KEY UPDATE lock mode on + the row, while foreign key checks use the new KEY SHARE + lock mode, which does not conflict with NO KEY UPDATE. + So there is no blocking unless a foreign-key column is changed. Add configuration variable lock_timeout to limit - lock wait duration (Zoltán Böszörményi) - - - - - - Add cache of local locks (Jeff Janes) - - - - This speeds lock release at statement completion in - transactions that hold many locks; it is particularly useful - for pg_dump and the restoration of such dumps. + linkend="guc-lock-timeout">lock_timeout to + allow limiting how long a session will wait to acquire any one lock + (Zoltán Böszörményi) @@ -315,21 +336,29 @@ - Add SP-GiST + Add SP-GiST support for range data types (Alexander Korotkov) - Allow unlogged GiST indexes - (Jeevan Chalke) + Allow GiST indexes to be + unlogged (Jeevan Chalke) + + + + + + Improve performance of GiST index insertion by randomizing + the choice of which page to descend to when there are multiple equally + good alternatives (Heikki Linnakangas) - Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Robert Haas) + Improve concurrency of hash index operations (Robert Haas) @@ -344,21 +373,37 @@ - Collect and use histograms for range - types (Alexander Korotkov) + Collect and use histograms of upper and lower bounds, as well as range + lengths, for range types + (Alexander Korotkov) + + + + + + Improve optimizer's cost estimation for index access (Tom Lane) - Reduce optimizer overhead by discarding plans with unneeded cheaper - startup costs (Tom Lane) + Improve optimizer's hash table size estimate for + doing DISTINCT via hash aggregation (Tom Lane) - Improve optimizer cost estimation for index access (Tom Lane) + Suppress no-op Result and Limit plan nodes + (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Reduce optimizer overhead by not keeping plans on the basis of cheap + startup cost when the optimizer only cares about total cost overall + (Tom Lane) @@ -374,7 +419,7 @@ Add COPY FREEZE - option to avoid the overhead of marking tuples as committed later + option to avoid the overhead of marking tuples as frozen later (Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis) @@ -389,53 +434,65 @@ - Improve grouping of sessions waiting for commit_delay (Peter Geoghegan) - This improves the usefulness and behavior of - commit_delay. + This greatly improves the usefulness of commit_delay. - Improve performance for transactions creating, rebuilding, or - dropping many relations (Jeff Janes, Tomas Vondra) + Improve performance of the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ... ON + COMMIT DELETE ROWS option by not truncating such temporary + tables in transactions that haven't touched any temporary tables + (Heikki Linnakangas) - Improve performance of the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ... ON - COMMIT DELETE ROWS clause by only issuing delete if - the temporary table was accessed (Heikki Linnakangas) + Make vacuum recheck visibility after it has removed expired tuples + (Pavan Deolasee) + + + + This increases the chance of a page being marked as all-visible. - Have vacuum recheck visibility after it has removed expired tuples - (Pavan Deolasee) + Add per-resource-owner lock caches (Jeff Janes) - This increases the chance of a page being marked as all-visible. + This speeds up lock bookkeeping at statement completion in + multi-statement transactions that hold many locks; it is particularly + useful for pg_dump. - Split the pg_stat_tmp - statistics file into per-database and global files (Tomas Vondra) + Avoid scanning the entire relation cache at commit of a transaction + that creates a new relation (Jeff Janes) + + + + This speeds up sessions that create many tables in successive + small transactions, such as a pg_restore run. + + - This reduces the I/O overhead for statistics tracking. + Improve performance of transactions that drop many relations + (Tomas Vondra) @@ -463,27 +520,38 @@ - Allow pg_terminate_backend() - to terminate other backends with the same role (Dan Farina) + Split the statistics collector's + data file into separate global and per-database files (Tomas Vondra) + + + + This reduces the I/O required for statistics tracking. + + + + + + Fix the statistics collector to operate properly in cases where the + system clock goes backwards (Tom Lane) - Previously, only superusers could terminate other sessions. + Previously, statistics collection would stop until the time again + reached the latest time previously recorded. - Allow the statistics - collector to operate properly in cases where the system - clock goes backwards (Tom Lane) + Emit an informative message to postmaster standard error when we + are about to stop logging there + (Tom Lane) - Previously statistics collection would stop until the time again - reached the previously-stored latest time. + This should help reduce user confusion about where to look for log + output in common configurations that log to standard error only during + postmaster startup. @@ -496,6 +564,15 @@ + + + When an authentication failure occurs, log the relevant + pg_hba.conf + line, to ease debugging of unintended failures + (Magnus Hagander) + + + Improve LDAP error @@ -505,8 +582,8 @@ - Add support for LDAP authentication to be specified - in URL format (Peter Eisentraut) + Add support for specifying LDAP authentication parameters + in URL format, per RFC 4516 (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -519,7 +596,7 @@ - It is assumed DEFAULT is more appropriate cipher set. + This should yield a more appropriate SSL cipher set. @@ -531,9 +608,7 @@ - This is similar to how pg_hba.conf - is processed. + This is similar to how pg_hba.conf is processed. @@ -548,14 +623,14 @@ - Dramatically reduce System V shared + Greatly reduce System V shared memory requirements (Robert Haas) - Instead, on Unix-like systems, mmap() is used for - shared memory. For most users, this will eliminate the need to - adjust kernel parameters for shared memory. + On Unix-like systems, mmap() is now used for most + of PostgreSQL's shared memory. For most users, this + will eliminate any need to adjust kernel parameters for shared memory. @@ -604,7 +679,8 @@ Remove the external - PID file on postmaster exit (Peter Eisentraut) + PID file, if any, on postmaster exit + (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -627,9 +703,9 @@ - This allows streaming standbys to feed from newly-promoted slaves. - Previously slaves required access to a WAL archive directory to - accomplish this. + This allows streaming standby servers to receive WAL data from a slave + newly promoted to master status. Previously, other standbys would + require a resync to begin following the new master. @@ -670,8 +746,8 @@ - This information is useful for determining the WAL - files needed for restore. + This information is useful for determining which WAL + files are needed for restore. @@ -693,10 +769,10 @@ - Have pg_basebackup @@ -720,7 +796,7 @@ Add wal_receiver_timeout - parameter to control the WAL receiver timeout + parameter to control the WAL receiver's timeout (Amit Kapila) @@ -729,18 +805,10 @@ - - - - <link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</link> - (<acronym>WAL</>) - - - - Change the WAL record format to allow splitting the record header - across pages (Heikki Linnakangas) + Change the WAL record format to + allow splitting the record header across pages (Heikki Linnakangas) @@ -751,8 +819,6 @@ - - @@ -779,7 +845,15 @@ Add support for piping COPY and psql \copy - to/from an external program (Etsuro Fujita) + data to/from an external program (Etsuro Fujita) + + + + + + Allow a multirow VALUES clause in a rule + to reference OLD/NEW (Tom Lane) @@ -800,8 +874,7 @@ This allows server-side functions written in event-enabled - languages, e.g. C, PL/pgSQL, to be called when DDL commands - are run. + languages to be called when DDL commands are run. @@ -813,14 +886,6 @@ - - - Allow a multirow VALUES clause in a rule - to reference OLD/NEW (Tom Lane) - - - Add CREATE SCHEMA ... IF @@ -830,22 +895,24 @@ - Have REASSIGN + Make REASSIGN OWNED also change ownership of shared objects (Álvaro Herrera) - - - - <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE"><command>CREATE TABLE</></link> - - + + + Make CREATE + AGGREGATE complain if the given initial value string is not + valid input for the transition datatype (Tom Lane) + + - Suppress messages about implicit index and sequence creation + Suppress CREATE + TABLE's messages about implicit index and sequence creation (Robert Haas) @@ -867,15 +934,6 @@ - - - - - - Constraints - - - Provide clients with - This allows clients to retrieve table, column, data type, or constraint - name error details. Previously such information had to be extracted from - error strings. Client library support is required to access these - fields. + This allows clients to retrieve table, column, data type, or + constraint name error details. Previously such information had to be + extracted from error strings. Client library support is required to + access these fields. - - <command>ALTER</> @@ -915,7 +971,7 @@ Add ALTER ROLE ALL - SET to add settings to all users (Peter Eisentraut) + SET to establish settings for all users (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -975,28 +1031,29 @@ - Improve view/rule printing code to handle cases where referenced - tables are renamed, or columns are renamed, added, or dropped - (Tom Lane) + Add CREATE RECURSIVE + VIEW syntax (Peter Eisentraut) - Table and column renamings can produce cases where, if we merely - substitute the new name into the original text of a rule or view, the - result is ambiguous. This patch fixes the rule-dumping code to insert - table and column aliases if needed to preserve the original semantics. + Internally this is translated into CREATE VIEW ... WITH + RECURSIVE .... - Add CREATE RECURSIVE - VIEW syntax (Peter Eisentraut) + Improve view/rule printing code to handle cases where referenced + tables are renamed, or columns are renamed, added, or dropped + (Tom Lane) - Internally this is translated into CREATE VIEW ... WITH - RECURSIVE .... + Table and column renamings can produce cases where, if we merely + substitute the new name into the original text of a rule or view, the + result is ambiguous. This change fixes the rule-dumping code to insert + manufactured table and column aliases when needed to preserve the + original semantics. @@ -1013,21 +1070,22 @@ - Increase the maximum length of large + Increase the maximum size of large objects from 2GB to 4TB (Nozomi Anzai, Yugo Nagata) - This change includes new libpq and server-side 64-bit-capable - large object access functions. + This change includes adding 64-bit-capable large object access + functions, both in the server and in libpq. Allow text timezone - designations, e.g. America/Chicago when using - the ISO T timestamptz format (Bruce Momjian) + designations, e.g. America/Chicago, in the + T field of ISO-format timestamptz + input (Bruce Momjian) @@ -1041,13 +1099,13 @@ Add operators and functions - to extract values from JSON data strings (Andrew Dunstan) + to extract elements from JSON values (Andrew Dunstan) - Allow JSON data strings to be JSON values to be converted into records (Andrew Dunstan) @@ -1055,9 +1113,9 @@ - Add functions - to convert values, records, and hstore data to JSON - (Andrew Dunstan) + Add functions to convert + scalars, records, and hstore values to JSON (Andrew + Dunstan) @@ -1098,32 +1156,32 @@ Improve format() - to handle field width and left/right alignment (Pavel Stehule) + to provide field width and left/right alignment options (Pavel Stehule) - Have to_char(), to_date(), and to_timestamp() - properly handle negative century designations (CC) + handle negative (BC) century values properly (Bruce Momjian) Previously the behavior was either wrong or inconsistent - with positive/AD handling, e.g. format mask + with positive/AD handling, e.g. with the format mask IYYY-IW-DY. - Have to_date() and to_timestamp() @@ -1136,9 +1194,8 @@ Cause pg_get_viewdef() - to start a new line by default after each SELECT target list entry and - FROM entry (Marko Tiikkaja) + to start a new line by default after each SELECT target + list entry and FROM entry (Marko Tiikkaja) @@ -1161,19 +1218,6 @@ - - - Force cached plans to be replanned if the search_path changes - (Tom Lane) - - - - Previously cached plans already generated in the current session - ignored search_path changes. - - - @@ -1181,18 +1225,6 @@ Server-Side Languages - - - - - Allow SPI - functions to access the number of rows processed by - COPY (Pavel Stehule) - - - - - <link linkend="plpgsql">PL/pgSQL</link> Server-Side Language @@ -1225,7 +1257,8 @@ - The command is COPY executed in a PL/pgSQL function now updates the + value retrieved by GET DIAGNOSTICS x = ROW_COUNT. @@ -1233,7 +1266,13 @@ - Allow greater flexibility in where keywords can be used in PL/pgSQL (Tom Lane) + Allow unreserved keywords to be used as identifiers everywhere in + PL/pgSQL (Tom Lane) + + + + In certain places in the PL/pgSQL grammar, keywords had to be quoted + to be used as identifiers, even if they were nominally unreserved. @@ -1277,6 +1316,41 @@ + + Server Programming Interface (<link linkend="spi">SPI</link>) + + + + + + Prevent leakage of SPI tuple tables during subtransaction + abort (Tom Lane) + + + + At the end of any failed subtransaction, the core SPI code now + releases any SPI tuple tables that were created during that + subtransaction. This avoids the need for SPI-using code to keep track + of such tuple tables and release them manually in error-recovery code. + Failure to do so caused a number of transaction-lifespan memory leakage + issues in PL/pgSQL and perhaps other SPI clients. SPI_freetuptable() + now protects itself against multiple freeing requests, so any existing + code that did take care to clean up shouldn't be broken by this change. + + + + + + Allow SPI functions to access the number of rows processed + by COPY (Pavel Stehule) + + + + + + + Client Applications @@ -1301,9 +1375,9 @@ - This is similar to the pg_dump @@ -1314,7 +1388,7 @@ linkend="app-pgbasebackup">pg_basebackup, and pg_receivexlog - to specify the connection string (Amit Kapila) + to allow specifying a connection string (Amit Kapila) @@ -1337,14 +1411,14 @@ Adjust function cost settings so psql tab - completion and pattern searching is more efficient (Tom Lane) + completion and pattern searching are more efficient (Tom Lane) - Improve psql tab completion coverage (Jeff Janes, - Peter Eisentraut) + Improve psql's tab completion coverage (Jeff Janes, + Dean Rasheed, Peter Eisentraut, Magnus Hagander) @@ -1367,21 +1441,22 @@ - The warning when connecting to a newer server was retained. + A warning is still issued when connecting to a server of a newer major + version than psql's. - <link linkend="R2-APP-PSQL-4">Backslash Commands</link> + <link linkend="APP-PSQL-meta-commands">Backslash Commands</link> - Add psql \watch command to repeatedly - execute commands (Will Leinweber) + Add psql command \watch to repeatedly + execute a SQL command (Will Leinweber) @@ -1401,14 +1476,14 @@ - Add Security label to psql \df+ - output (Jon Erdman) + Add Security column to psql's + \df+ output (Jon Erdman) - Allow psql \l to accept a database + Allow psql command \l to accept a database name pattern (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -1426,8 +1501,9 @@ - Properly reset state if the SQL command executed with - psql's \g file fails (Tom Lane) + Properly reset state after failure of a SQL command executed with + psql's \g file + (Tom Lane) @@ -1465,15 +1541,15 @@ - In psql tuples-only and expanded modes, no longer - output (No rows) (Peter Eisentraut) + In psql's tuples-only and expanded output modes, no + longer emit (No rows) for zero rows (Peter Eisentraut) - In psql, no longer print an empty line for - unaligned, expanded output for zero rows (Peter Eisentraut) + In psql's unaligned, expanded output mode, no longer + print an empty line for zero rows (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -1497,15 +1573,14 @@ - Have pg_dump output functions in a more predictable + Make pg_dump output functions in a more predictable order (Joel Jacobson) - Fix tar files emitted by pg_dump and pg_basebackup + Fix tar files emitted by pg_dump to be POSIX conformant (Brian Weaver, Tom Lane) @@ -1532,11 +1607,12 @@ - Have initdb fsync the newly created data directory (Jeff Davis) + Make initdb fsync the newly created data directory (Jeff Davis) - This can be disabled by using @@ -1554,7 +1630,7 @@ - Have initdb issue a warning about placing the data directory at the + Make initdb issue a warning about placing the data directory at the top of a file system mount point (Bruce Momjian) @@ -1572,13 +1648,7 @@ - Add an embedded list interface (Andres Freund) - - - - - - Add infrastructure to better support plug-in background worker processes (Álvaro Herrera) @@ -1598,19 +1668,54 @@ - This allows libpgport to be used solely for porting code. + This allows libpgport to be used solely for portability-related code. + + + + + + Add support for list links embedded in larger structs (Andres Freund) + + + + + + Use SA_RESTART for all signals, + including SIGALRM (Tom Lane) - Standardize on naming of client-side memory allocation functions (Tom Lane) + Ensure that the correct text domain is used when + translating errcontext() messages + (Heikki Linnakangas) - Add compiler designations to indicate some ereport() + Standardize naming of client-side memory allocation functions (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Provide support for static assertions that will fail at + compile time if some compile-time-constant condition is not met + (Andres Freund, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Support Assert() in client-side code (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Add decoration to inform the C compiler that some ereport() and elog() calls do not return (Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas) @@ -1650,8 +1755,8 @@ Remove configure flag - @@ -1663,38 +1768,39 @@ - Add Emacs macro to match PostgreSQL perltidy - formatting (Peter Eisentraut) + Provide Emacs macro to set Perl formatting to + match PostgreSQL's perltidy settings (Peter Eisentraut) - Run tool to check the keyword list when the backend grammar is + Run tool to check the keyword list whenever the backend grammar is changed (Tom Lane) - Centralize flex and bison - make rules (Peter Eisentraut) + Change the way UESCAPE is lexed, to significantly reduce + the size of the lexer tables (Heikki Linnakangas) + + - This is useful for pgxs authors. + Centralize flex and bison + make rules (Peter Eisentraut) - - - Support Assert() in client-side code (Andrew Dunstan) + This is useful for pgxs authors. - Change many internal backend functions to return OIDs + Change many internal backend functions to return object OIDs rather than void (Dimitri Fontaine) @@ -1719,8 +1825,8 @@ Add function pg_identify_object() - to dump an object in machine-readable format (Álvaro - Herrera) + to produce a machine-readable description of a database object + (Álvaro Herrera) @@ -1739,14 +1845,15 @@ - Improve ability to detect official timezone abbreviation changes + Provide a tool to help detect timezone abbreviation changes when + updating the src/timezone/data files (Tom Lane) - Add pkg-config support libpq + Add pkg-config support for libpq and ecpg libraries (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -1805,8 +1912,9 @@ - Add a Postgres foreign - data wrapper contrib module (Shigeru Hanada) + Add a Postgres foreign + data wrapper contrib module to allow access to + other Postgres servers (Shigeru Hanada) @@ -1831,21 +1939,29 @@ - Improve pg_trgm + Improve pg_trgm's handling of multibyte characters (Tom Lane) + + + On a platform that does not have the wcstombs() or towlower() library + functions, this could result in an incompatible change in the contents + of pg_trgm indexes for non-ASCII data. In such cases, + REINDEX those indexes to ensure correct search results. + - Add pgstattuple function to report the - size of the GIN pending index insertion list (Fujii Masao) + Add a pgstattuple function to report + the size of the pending-insertions list of a GIN index + (Fujii Masao) - Have oid2name, + Make oid2name, pgbench, and vacuumlo set fallback_application_name (Amit Kapila) @@ -1870,12 +1986,15 @@ - Improve dblink option validator - (Tom Lane) + Create a dedicated foreign data wrapper, with its own option validator + function, for dblink (Shigeru Hanada) - Details? + When using this FDW to define the target of a dblink + connection, instead of using a hard-wired list of connection options, + the underlying libpq library is consulted to see what + connection options it supports. @@ -1888,19 +2007,20 @@ - Allow pg_upgrade This allows parallel schema dump/restore of databases, as well as - parallel copy/link of data files per tablespace. + parallel copy/link of data files per tablespace. Use the + - Have pg_upgrade create Unix-domain sockets in + Make pg_upgrade create Unix-domain sockets in the current directory (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane) @@ -1912,7 +2032,7 @@ - Have pg_upgrade @@ -1927,8 +2047,8 @@ - Increase pg_upgrade logging content by showing - executed command (Álvaro Herrera) + Improve pg_upgrade's logs by showing + executed commands (Álvaro Herrera) @@ -1999,7 +2119,9 @@ - Allow pgbench to use a larger scale factor + Allow pgbench to use much larger scale factors, + by changing relevant columns from integer to bigint + when the requested scale factor exceeds 20000 (Greg Smith) @@ -2032,13 +2154,13 @@ Improve WINDOW - function documentation (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane) + function documentation (Bruce Momjian, Florian Pflug) - Add instructions for setting + Add instructions for setting up the documentation tool chain on Mac OS X (Peter Eisentraut)