<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- Copied here from this commit:
- 2017-04-03 [ea69a0dea] Expand hash indexes more gradually.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-03 [ea69a0dea] Expand hash indexes more gradually.
+-->
<para>
<application>pg_upgrade</>-ed hash indexes from previous major
Postgres versions must be rebuilt.
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [3371e4d9b] Change default of log_directory to 'log'
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [3371e4d9b] Change default of log_directory to 'log'
+-->
<para>
Change the default <link linkend="guc-log-destination">log
directory</> from <filename>pg_log</> to <filename>log</> (Andreas
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-20 [f82ec32ac] Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal"
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-20 [f82ec32ac] Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal"
+-->
<para>
Rename <filename>pg_xlog</> to <link
linkend="wal"><filename>pg_wal</></> (Michael Paquier)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-09 [806091c96] Remove all references to "xlog" from SQL-callable functi
- 2017-02-09 [85c11324c] Rename user-facing tools with "xlog" in the name to say
- 2017-02-09 [62e8b3875] Rename command line options for ongoing xlog -> wal conv
- 2017-02-15 [0dfa89ba2] Replace reference to "xlog-method" with "wal-method" in
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-09 [806091c96] Remove all references to "xlog" from SQL-callable functi
+2017-02-09 [85c11324c] Rename user-facing tools with "xlog" in the name to say
+2017-02-09 [62e8b3875] Rename command line options for ongoing xlog -> wal conv
+2017-02-15 [0dfa89ba2] Replace reference to "xlog-method" with "wal-method" in
+-->
<para>
Rename <acronym>SQL</> functions, tools, and options that reference
<quote>xlog</> to <quote>wal</> (Robert Haas)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-17 [88e66d193] Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-17 [88e66d193] Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".
+-->
<para>
Rename transaction status directory <filename>pg_clog</> directory
to <filename>pg_xact</> (Michael Paquier)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not
- -->
+<!--
+2017-05-11 [d10c626de] Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not
+-->
<para>
Rename <acronym>WAL</>-related functions and views to use <literal>lsn</>
instead of <literal>location</> (David Rowley)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-18 [69f4b9c85] Move targetlist SRF handling from expression evaluation
- 2017-01-18 [f13a1277a] Doc: improve documentation of new SRF-in-tlist behavior.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-18 [69f4b9c85] Move targetlist SRF handling from expression evaluation
+2017-01-18 [f13a1277a] Doc: improve documentation of new SRF-in-tlist behavior.
+-->
<para>
Allow <literal>COALESCE</> and <literal>CASE</> to return multiple
rows when evaluating set-returning functions (Andres Freund).
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-04 [9a4d51077] Make wal streaming the default mode for pg_basebackup
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-04 [9a4d51077] Make wal streaming the default mode for pg_basebackup
+-->
<para>
Have <application><xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"></> stream the
<acronym>WAL</> needed to restore the backup by default (Magnus
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-14 [05cd12ed5] pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-14 [05cd12ed5] pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions
+-->
<para>
Make all <application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></> actions wait
by default for completion (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-05-08 [eb61136dc] Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-05-08 [eb61136dc] Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.
+-->
<para>
Remove the ability to store unencrypted passwords on the server
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-26 [94aceed31] Support multi-dimensional arrays in PL/python.
- 2016-10-26 [cfd9c87a5] Only treat Python Lists as array dimensions.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-26 [94aceed31] Support multi-dimensional arrays in PL/python.
+2016-10-26 [cfd9c87a5] Only treat Python Lists as array dimensions.
+-->
<para>
Allow multi-dimensional arrays to be passed into PL/Python functions,
and returned as nested Python lists (Alexey Grishchenko, Dave Cramer,
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-27 [817f2a586] Remove PL/Tcl's "module" facility.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-27 [817f2a586] Remove PL/Tcl's "module" facility.
+-->
<para>
Remove PL/Tcl's "module" auto-loading facility (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-23 [e13486eba] Remove sql_inheritance <acronym>GUC</>.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-23 [e13486eba] Remove sql_inheritance GUC.
+-->
<para>
Remove <varname>sql_inheritance</> <acronym>GUC</> (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-15 [51ee6f316] Replace min_parallel_relation_size with two new <acronym>GUC</>s.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-15 [51ee6f316] Replace min_parallel_relation_size with two new GUCs.
+-->
<para>
Add <acronym>GUC</>s <xref linkend="guc-min-parallel-table-scan-size">
and <xref linkend="guc-min-parallel-index-scan-size"> to control
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-12 [64f3524e2] Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-12 [64f3524e2] Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8
+-->
<para>
Remove <application>pg_dump</>/<application>pg_dumpall</> support
for dumping from pre-8.0 servers (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-23 [b6aa17e0a] De-support floating-point timestamps.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-23 [b6aa17e0a] De-support floating-point timestamps.
+-->
<para>
Remove support for floating-point datetimes/timestamps (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-11 [2f1eaf87e] Drop server support for <acronym>FE/BE</> protocol version 1.0.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-11 [2f1eaf87e] Drop server support for FE/BE protocol version 1.0.
+-->
<para>
Remove support for client/server protocol version 1.0 (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-13 [7ada2d31f] Remove contrib/tsearch2.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-13 [7ada2d31f] Remove contrib/tsearch2.
+-->
<para>
Remove contrib/tsearch2 (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-23 [50c956add] Remove createlang and droplang
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-23 [50c956add] Remove createlang and droplang
+-->
<para>
Remove createlang and droplang command-line applications (Peter
Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-30 [5ded4bd21] Remove support for version-0 calling conventions.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-30 [5ded4bd21] Remove support for version-0 calling conventions.
+-->
<para>
Remove support for version-0 function calling conventions (Andres
Freund)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-11 [2b860f52e] Remove "sco" and "unixware" ports.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-11 [2b860f52e] Remove "sco" and "unixware" ports.
+-->
<para>
Remove <systemitem class="osname">SCO</> and <systemitem
class="osname">Unixware</> ports (Tom Lane)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-15 [569174f1b] btree: Support parallel index scans.
- 2017-02-15 [5262f7a4f] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index sc
- 2017-02-19 [0414b26ba] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index-on
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-15 [569174f1b] btree: Support parallel index scans.
+2017-02-15 [5262f7a4f] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index sc
+2017-02-19 [0414b26ba] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index-on
+-->
<para>
Support parallel btree index scans (Rahila Syed, Amit Kapila,
Robert Haas, Rafia Sabih)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-08 [98e6e8904] tidbitmap: Support shared iteration.
- 2017-03-08 [f35742ccb] Support parallel bitmap heap scans.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-08 [98e6e8904] tidbitmap: Support shared iteration.
+2017-03-08 [f35742ccb] Support parallel bitmap heap scans.
+-->
<para>
Support parallel bitmap heap scans (Dilip Kumar)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-07 [3bc7dafa9] Consider parallel merge joins.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-07 [3bc7dafa9] Consider parallel merge joins.
+-->
<para>
Allow merge joins to be performed in parallel (Dilip Kumar)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-14 [5e6d8d2bb] Allow parallel workers to execute subplans.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-14 [5e6d8d2bb] Allow parallel workers to execute subplans.
+-->
<para>
Allow non-correlated subqueries to be run in parallel (Amit Kapila)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-09 [355d3993c] Add a Gather Merge executor node.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-09 [355d3993c] Add a Gather Merge executor node.
+-->
<para>
Improve ability of parallel workers to return pre-sorted data
(Rushabh Lathia)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-24 [61c2e1a95] Improve access to parallel query from procedural languag
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-24 [61c2e1a95] Improve access to parallel query from procedural languag
+-->
<para>
Increase parallel query usage in procedural language functions
(Robert Haas, Rafia Sabih)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-02 [b460f5d66] Add max_parallel_workers GUC.
- 2016-12-05 [2b959d495] Reduce the default for max_worker_processes back to 8.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-02 [b460f5d66] Add max_parallel_workers GUC.
+2016-12-05 [2b959d495] Reduce the default for max_worker_processes back to 8.
+-->
<para>
Add <acronym>GUC</> <xref linkend="guc-max-parallel-workers">
to limit the number of worker processes that can be used for
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-23 [77e290682] Create an SP-GiST opclass for inet/cidr.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-23 [77e290682] Create an SP-GiST opclass for inet/cidr.
+-->
<para>
Add <acronym>SP-GiST</> index support for <type>INET</> and
<type>CIDR</> data types (Emre Hasegeli)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-23 [218f51584] Reduce page locking in <acronym>GIN</> vacuum
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-23 [218f51584] Reduce page locking in GIN vacuum
+-->
<para>
Reduce page locking during vacuuming of <acronym>GIN</> indexes
(Andrey Borodin)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-01 [7526e1022] BRIN auto-summarization
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-01 [7526e1022] BRIN auto-summarization
+-->
<para>
Add option to allow <acronym>BRIN</> index summarization to happen
more aggressively (Álvaro Herrera)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-01 [c655899ba] BRIN de-summarization
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-01 [c655899ba] BRIN de-summarization
+-->
<para>
Add functions to remove and re-add <acronym>BRIN</>
summarization for <acronym>BRIN</> index ranges (Álvaro
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-06 [7e534adcd] Fix BRIN cost estimation
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-06 [7e534adcd] Fix BRIN cost estimation
+-->
<para>
Improve accuracy in determining if a <acronym>BRIN</> index scan
is beneficial (David Rowley, Emre Hasegeli)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-09 [b1328d78f] Invent PageIndexTupleOverwrite, and teach BRIN and GiST
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-09 [b1328d78f] Invent PageIndexTupleOverwrite, and teach BRIN and GiST
+-->
<para>
Allow faster <acronym>GiST</> inserts and updates by reusing
index space more efficiently (Andrey Borodin)
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+
<sect5>
<title><link linkend="indexes-types">Hash Indexes</link></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-27 [30df93f69] hash: Refactor overflow page allocation.
- 2017-03-14 [c11453ce0] hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
- 2017-02-27 [b0f18cb77] hash: Refactor bucket squeeze code.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-27 [30df93f69] hash: Refactor overflow page allocation.
+2017-03-14 [c11453ce0] hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
+2017-02-27 [b0f18cb77] hash: Refactor bucket squeeze code.
+-->
<para>
Add write-ahead logging support to hash indexes (Amit Kapila)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-30 [6d46f4783] Improve hash index bucket split behavior.
- 2017-02-07 [293e24e50] Cache hash index's metapage in rel->rd_amcache.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-30 [6d46f4783] Improve hash index bucket split behavior.
+2017-02-07 [293e24e50] Cache hash index's metapage in rel->rd_amcache.
+-->
<para>
Improve hash bucket split performance by reducing locking
requirements (Amit Kapila, Mithun Cy)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-03 [ea69a0dea] Expand hash indexes more gradually.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-03 [ea69a0dea] Expand hash indexes more gradually.
+-->
<para>
Improve efficiency of hash index growth (Amit Kapila, Mithun Cy)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-15 [6977b8b7f] Port single-page btree vacuum logic to hash indexes.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-15 [6977b8b7f] Port single-page btree vacuum logic to hash indexes.
+-->
<para>
Allow single-page hash pruning (Ashutosh Sharma)
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-31 [64d4da511] For foreign keys, check <literal>REFERENCES</> privilege only on the
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-31 [64d4da511] For foreign keys, check REFERENCES privilege only on the
+-->
<para>
Only check for <literal>REFERENCES</> permission on referenced
tables (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-05 [15bc038f9] Relax transactional restrictions on ALTER TYPE ... ADD V
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-05 [15bc038f9] Relax transactional restrictions on ALTER TYPE ... ADD V
+-->
<para>
Reduce locking required for adding values to enum types (Andrew
Dunstan, Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-07 [c63172d60] Add GUCs for predicate lock promotion thresholds.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-07 [c63172d60] Add GUCs for predicate lock promotion thresholds.
+-->
<para>
Allow tuning of predicate lock promotion thresholds (Dagfinn
Ilmari Mannsåker)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-24 [7b504eb28] Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
- 2017-04-05 [2686ee1b7] Collect and use multi-column dependency stats
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-24 [7b504eb28] Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
+2017-04-05 [2686ee1b7] Collect and use multi-column dependency stats
+-->
<para>
Add multi-column optimizer statistics to compute the correlation
ratio and number of distinct values (Tomas Vondra, David Rowley,
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-15 [0777f7a2e] Fix matching of boolean index columns to sort ordering.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-15 [0777f7a2e] Fix matching of boolean index columns to sort ordering.
+-->
<para>
Improve planner matching of boolean indexes (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-18 [215b43cdc] Improve RLS planning by marking individual quals with se
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-18 [215b43cdc] Improve RLS planning by marking individual quals with se
+-->
<para>
Improve performance of queries referencing row-level security
restrictions (Tom Lane)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-02 [9cca11c91] Speed up SUM calculation in numeric aggregates.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-02 [9cca11c91] Speed up SUM calculation in numeric aggregates.
+-->
<para>
Speed up <function>SUM()</> calculations (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-13 [aeed17d00] Use radix tree for character encoding conversions.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-13 [aeed17d00] Use radix tree for character encoding conversions.
+-->
<para>
Improve the performance of character encoding conversions by
using radix trees (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-25 [b8d7f053c] Faster expression evaluation and targetlist projection.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-25 [b8d7f053c] Faster expression evaluation and targetlist projection.
+-->
<para>
Reduce the function call overhead during query execution (Andres
Freund)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [b5635948a] Support hashed aggregation with grouping sets.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [b5635948a] Support hashed aggregation with grouping sets.
+-->
<para>
Improve the performance of grouping sets (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-07 [9c7f5229a] Optimize joins when the inner relation can be proven uni
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-07 [9c7f5229a] Optimize joins when the inner relation can be proven uni
+-->
<para>
Use uniqueness guarantees to optimize certain join types (David
Rowley)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-29 [f90d23d0c] Implement SortSupport for macaddr data type
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-29 [f90d23d0c] Implement SortSupport for macaddr data type
+-->
<para>
Improve sort performance of the macaddr data type (Brandur Leach)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [090010f2e] Improve performance of find_tabstat_entry()/get_tabstat_
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [090010f2e] Improve performance of find_tabstat_entry()/get_tabstat_
+-->
<para>
Reduce statistics tracking overhead in sessions that reference
many thousands of relations (Aleksander Alekseev)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-20 [1753b1b02] Add pg_sequence system catalog
- 2016-11-18 [67dc4ccbb] Add pg_sequences view
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-20 [1753b1b02] Add pg_sequence system catalog
+2016-11-18 [67dc4ccbb] Add pg_sequences view
+-->
<para>
Create a <link
linkend="catalog-pg-sequence"><structname>pg_sequence</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-08 [f9b1a0dd4] Expose explain's SUMMARY option
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-08 [f9b1a0dd4] Expose explain's SUMMARY option
+-->
<para>
Allow explicit control over <command><link
linkend="SQL-EXPLAIN">EXPLAIN</></>'s display of planning and
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-18 [17f8ffa1e] Fix <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW</> to report activity to the
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-18 [17f8ffa1e] Fix REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to report activity to the
+-->
<para>
Properly update the statistics collector during <link
linkend="SQL-REFRESHMATERIALIZEDVIEW"><command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-30 [25fff4079] Default monitoring roles
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-30 [25fff4079] Default monitoring roles
+-->
<para>
Add default monitoring roles (Dave Page)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+
<sect5>
<title>Logging</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-17 [7d3235ba4] By default, set log_line_prefix = '%m [%p] '.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-17 [7d3235ba4] By default, set log_line_prefix = '%m [%p] '.
+-->
<para>
Change <xref linkend="guc-log-line-prefix"> default to include
current timestamp with milliseconds and the process id (Christoph
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-16 [befd73c50] Add pg_ls_logdir() and pg_ls_waldir() functions.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-16 [befd73c50] Add pg_ls_logdir() and pg_ls_waldir() functions.
+-->
<para>
Add functions to return the log and <acronym>WAL</> directory
names (Dave Page)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-03 [19dc233c3] Add pg_current_logfile() function.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-03 [19dc233c3] Add pg_current_logfile() function.
+-->
<para>
Add function <link
linkend="functions-info-session-table"><function>pg_current_logfile()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-10 [f9dfa5c97] Improve postmaster's logging of listen socket creation.
- 2017-03-14 [2b32ac2a5] Include port number when logging successful binding to a
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-10 [f9dfa5c97] Improve postmaster's logging of listen socket creation.
+2017-03-14 [2b32ac2a5] Include port number when logging successful binding to a
+-->
<para>
Report the address and port number of successful startup socket
binding in the server logs (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-10 [6ec4c8584] Reduce log verbosity of startup/shutdown for launcher su
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-10 [6ec4c8584] Reduce log verbosity of startup/shutdown for launcher su
+-->
<para>
Reduce log chatter about the starting and stopping of launcher
subprocesses (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-17 [a43f1939d] Remove or reduce verbosity of some debug messages.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-17 [a43f1939d] Remove or reduce verbosity of some debug messages.
+-->
<para>
Reduce message verbosity of lower-numbered debug levels
controlled by
</itemizedlist>
</sect5>
-
+
<sect5>
<title><link linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</></link></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-04 [6f3bd98eb] Extend framework from commit 53be0b1ad to report latch w
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-04 [6f3bd98eb] Extend framework from commit 53be0b1ad to report latch w
+-->
<para>
Add <structname>pg_stat_activity</> reporting of latch wait states
(Michael Paquier, Robert Haas)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-18 [249cf070e] Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync op
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-18 [249cf070e] Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync op
+-->
<para>
Add <structname>pg_stat_activity</> reporting of waits on reads,
writes, and fsyncs (Rushabh Lathia)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-26 [fc70a4b0d] Show more processes in pg_stat_activity.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-26 [fc70a4b0d] Show more processes in pg_stat_activity.
+-->
<para>
Show auxiliary processes and background workers in
<structname>pg_stat_activity</> (Kuntal Ghosh)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-12 [fc3d4a44e] Identify walsenders in pg_stat_activity
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-12 [fc3d4a44e] Identify walsenders in pg_stat_activity
+-->
<para>
Display walsender processes in <structname>pg_stat_activity</>
(Michael Paquier)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-22 [4c728f382] Pass the source text for a parallel query to the workers
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-22 [4c728f382] Pass the source text for a parallel query to the workers
+-->
<para>
Allow <structname>pg_stat_activity</> to show the source query
being executed by parallel workers (Rafia Sabih)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-16 [3761fe3c2] Simplify LWLock tranche machinery by removing array_base
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-16 [3761fe3c2] Simplify LWLock tranche machinery by removing array_base
+-->
<para>
Rename
<structname>pg_stat_activity</>.<structfield>wait_event_type</>
</itemizedlist>
</sect5>
-
</sect4>
<sect4>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-07 [818fd4a67] Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677)
- 2017-03-24 [7ac955b34] Allow SCRAM authentication, when pg_hba.conf says 'md5'.
- 2017-04-07 [60f11b87a] Use SASLprep to normalize passwords for SCRAM authentica
- 2017-04-18 [c727f120f] Rename "scram" to "scram-sha-256" in pg_hba.conf and pas
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-07 [818fd4a67] Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677)
+2017-03-24 [7ac955b34] Allow SCRAM authentication, when pg_hba.conf says 'md5'.
+2017-04-07 [60f11b87a] Use SASLprep to normalize passwords for SCRAM authentica
+2017-04-18 [c727f120f] Rename "scram" to "scram-sha-256" in pg_hba.conf and pas
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><literal>SCRAM-SHA-256</></>
support for password negotiation and storage (Michael Paquier,
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-28 [babe05bc2] Turn password_encryption <acronym>GUC</> into an enum.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-28 [babe05bc2] Turn password_encryption GUC into an enum.
+-->
<para>
Change <acronym>GUC</> <xref linkend="guc-password-encryption">
from <type>boolean</> to <type>enum</> (Michael Paquier)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-30 [de16ab723] Invent pg_hba_file_rules view to show the content of pg_
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-30 [de16ab723] Invent pg_hba_file_rules view to show the content of pg_
+-->
<para>
Add view <link
linkend="view-pg-hba-file-rules"><structname>pg_hba_file_rules</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-22 [6b76f1bb5] Support multiple RADIUS servers
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-22 [6b76f1bb5] Support multiple RADIUS servers
+-->
<para>
Support multiple <acronym>RADIUS</> servers (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-02 [de41869b6] Allow SSL configuration to be updated at SIGHUP.
- 2017-01-03 [1e942c747] Disable prompting for passphrase while (re)loading SSL c
- 2017-01-04 [6667d9a6d] Re-allow SSL passphrase prompt at server start, but not
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-02 [de41869b6] Allow SSL configuration to be updated at SIGHUP.
+2017-01-03 [1e942c747] Disable prompting for passphrase while (re)loading SSL c
+2017-01-04 [6667d9a6d] Re-allow SSL passphrase prompt at server start, but not
+-->
<para>
Allow <acronym>SSL</> configuration to be updated during
configuration reload (Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-30 [81c52728f] doc: Remove claim about large shared_buffers on Windows
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-30 [81c52728f] doc: Remove claim about large shared_buffers on Windows
+-->
<para>
Remove documented restriction about using large shared buffers on
<systemitem class="osname">Windows</> (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-06 [21d4e2e20] Reduce lock levels for table storage params related to p
- 2017-04-05 [68ea2b7f9] Reduce lock level for CREATE STATISTICS
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-06 [21d4e2e20] Reduce lock levels for table storage params related to p
+2017-04-05 [68ea2b7f9] Reduce lock level for CREATE STATISTICS
+-->
<para>
Reduce locking required to change table params (Simon Riggs,
Fabrízio Mello)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-02 [14ca9abfb] Increase upper bound for bgwriter_lru_maxpages.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-02 [14ca9abfb] Increase upper bound for bgwriter_lru_maxpages.
+-->
<para>
Make the maximum value of <xref
linkend="guc-bgwriter-lru-maxpages"> effectively unlimited
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [1b02be21f] Fsync directory after creating or unlinking file.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [1b02be21f] Fsync directory after creating or unlinking file.
+-->
<para>
Perform an fsync on the directory after creating or unlinking files
(Michael Paquier)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-22 [6ef2eba3f] Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-22 [6ef2eba3f] Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems.
+-->
<para>
Prevent checkpoints and <acronym>WAL</> archiving on
otherwise-idle systems (Michael Paquier)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-08 [a507b8690] Add WAL consistency checking facility.
- 2017-03-14 [bb4a39637] hash: Support WAL consistency checking.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-08 [a507b8690] Add WAL consistency checking facility.
+2017-03-14 [bb4a39637] hash: Support WAL consistency checking.
+-->
<para>
Add <acronym>GUC</> <xref linkend="guc-wal-consistency-checking">
to add details to <acronym>WAL</> that can be sanity-checked on
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-05 [00b6b6feb] Allow \-\-with-wal-segsize=n up to n=1024MB
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-05 [00b6b6feb] Allow -\-with-wal-segsize=n up to n=1024MB
+-->
<para>
Increase the maximum configurable <acronym>WAL</> segment size
to one gigabyte (Beena Emerson)
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+
</sect5>
</sect4>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-20 [665d1fad9] Logical replication
- 2017-03-23 [7c4f52409] Logical replication support for initial data copy
- 2017-04-12 [ff7bce174] Add max_sync_workers_per_subscription to postgresql.conf
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-20 [665d1fad9] Logical replication
+2017-03-23 [7c4f52409] Logical replication support for initial data copy
+2017-04-12 [ff7bce174] Add max_sync_workers_per_subscription to postgresql.conf
+-->
<para>
Add the ability to <link linkend="logical-replication">logically
replicate</> tables to standby servers (Petr Jelinek)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-19 [3901fd70c] Support quorum-based synchronous replication.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-19 [3901fd70c] Support quorum-based synchronous replication.
+-->
<para>
Allow waiting for commit acknowledgement from standby
servers irrespective of the order they appear in <xref
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-14 [f6d6d2920] Change default values for backup and replication parameters
- 2017-05-02 [34fc6167] Change hot_standby default value to 'on'
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-14 [f6d6d2920] Change default values for backup and replication paramet
+2017-05-02 [34fc61673] Change hot_standby default value to 'on'
+-->
<para>
Reduce configuration necessary to perform streaming backup and
replication (Magnus Hagander, Dang Minh Huong)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-09 [be37c2120] Enable replication connections by default in <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-09 [be37c2120] Enable replication connections by default in pg_hba.conf
+-->
<para>
Enable replication from localhost connections by default in
<link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-23 [6912acc04] Replication lag tracking for walsenders
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-23 [6912acc04] Replication lag tracking for walsenders
+-->
<para>
Add columns to <link
linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_replication</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-03 [35250b6ad] New recovery target recovery_target_lsn
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-03 [35250b6ad] New recovery target recovery_target_lsn
+-->
<para>
Add specification of a Log Sequence Number (<acronym>LSN</>)
stopping point in
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-22 [017e4f258] Expose waitforarchive option through pg_stop_backup()
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-22 [017e4f258] Expose waitforarchive option through pg_stop_backup()
+-->
<para>
Allow users to disable <link
linkend="functions-admin"><function>pg_stop_backup()</></>'s
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-12 [a924c327e] Add support for temporary replication slots
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-12 [a924c327e] Add support for temporary replication slots
+-->
<para>
Allow creation of <link
linkend="functions-replication-table">temporary replication slots</>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-22 [9b013dc23] Improve performance of replay of AccessExclusiveLocks
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-22 [9b013dc23] Improve performance of replay of AccessExclusiveLocks
+-->
<para>
Improve performance of hot standby replay with better tracking of
Access Exclusive locks (Simon Riggs, David Rowley)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-04 [728bd991c] Speedup 2PC recovery by skipping two phase state files i
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-04 [728bd991c] Speedup 2PC recovery by skipping two phase state files i
+-->
<para>
Speed up two-phase commit recovery performance (Stas Kelvich,
Nikhil Sontakke, Michael Paquier)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-08 [fcec6caaf] Support XMLTABLE query expression
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-08 [fcec6caaf] Support XMLTABLE query expression
+-->
<para>
Add <link
linkend="functions-xml-processing-xmltable"><function>XMLTABLE</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-22 [906bfcad7] Improve handling of "UPDATE ... SET (column_list) = row_
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-22 [906bfcad7] Improve handling of "UPDATE ... SET (column_list) = row_
+-->
<para>
Allow <literal>ROW</> to supply values to <command>UPDATE ... SET
(column_list)</> (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-05 [c54159d44] Make locale-dependent regex character classes work for l
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-05 [c54159d44] Make locale-dependent regex character classes work for l
+-->
<para>
Fix regular expression locale class handling for bytes greater
than <literal>U+7FF</> (Tom Lane)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-07 [f0e44751d] Implement table partitioning.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-07 [f0e44751d] Implement table partitioning.
+-->
<para>
Add table <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE-PARTITION">partitioning
syntax</> that automatically creates partition constraints and
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-04 [8c48375e5] Implement syntax for transition tables in AFTER triggers
- 2017-04-04 [5ebeb579b] Follow-on cleanup for the transition table patch.
- 2017-03-31 [597027163] Add transition table support to plpgsql.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-04 [8c48375e5] Implement syntax for transition tables in AFTER triggers
+2017-04-04 [5ebeb579b] Follow-on cleanup for the transition table patch.
+2017-03-31 [597027163] Add transition table support to plpgsql.
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER"><literal>AFTER</> trigger</>
transition table to record changed rows (Kevin Grittner)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-05 [093129c9d] Add support for restrictive RLS policies
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-05 [093129c9d] Add support for restrictive RLS policies
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="SQL-CREATEPOLICY">restrictive row-level
security policies</> (Stephen Frost)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-28 [ab89e465c] Altering default privileges on schemas
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-28 [ab89e465c] Altering default privileges on schemas
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="SQL-ALTERDEFAULTPRIVILEGES">default
permissions</> on schemas (Matheus Oliveira)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-10 [2ea5b06c7] Add CREATE SEQUENCE AS <data type> clause
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-10 [2ea5b06c7] Add CREATE SEQUENCE AS <data type> clause
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="SQL-CREATESEQUENCE"><command>CREATE SEQUENCE
AS</></> command to create a sequence matching an integer data type
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-10 [279c439c7] Support "COPY view FROM" for views with INSTEAD OF INSER
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-10 [279c439c7] Support "COPY view FROM" for views with INSTEAD OF INSER
+-->
<para>
Allow <command>COPY view FROM</> on views with <literal>INSTEAD
INSERT</> triggers (Haribabu Kommi)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-14 [aefeb6874] Allow referring to functions without arguments when uniq
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-14 [aefeb6874] Allow referring to functions without arguments when uniq
+-->
<para>
Allow the specification of a function name without arguments in
<acronym>DDL</> commands, when unique (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--<listitem>
- 2017-03-06 [583f6c414] Allow dropping multiple functions at once
- 2017-03-14 [aefeb6874] Allow referring to functions without arguments when uniq-->
+<!--
+2017-03-06 [583f6c414] Allow dropping multiple functions at once
+-->
<para>
Allow multiple functions, operators, and aggregates to be dropped
with a single <command>DROP</> command (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-20 [b6fb534f1] Add IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE SERVER and CREATE USER MAPP
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-20 [b6fb534f1] Add IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE SERVER and CREATE USER MAPP
+-->
<para>
Add <literal>IF NOT EXISTS</> for <link
linkend="SQL-CREATESERVER"><command>CREATE SERVER</></> and
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-15 [6d16ecc64] Add CREATE COLLATION IF NOT EXISTS clause
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-15 [6d16ecc64] Add CREATE COLLATION IF NOT EXISTS clause
+-->
<para>
Add <literal>IF NOT EXISTS</> clause to <link
linkend="SQL-CREATECOLLATION"><command>CREATE COLLATION</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-25 [70adf2fbe] Make VACUUM VERBOSE report the number of skipped frozen
- 2017-03-03 [9eb344faf] Allow vacuums to report oldestxmin
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-25 [70adf2fbe] Make VACUUM VERBOSE report the number of skipped frozen
+2017-03-03 [9eb344faf] Allow vacuums to report oldestxmin
+-->
<para>
Have <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM VERBOSE</></> report
the number of skipped frozen pages and oldest xmin (Masahiko
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-23 [7e26e02ee] Prefetch blocks during lazy vacuum's truncation scan
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-23 [7e26e02ee] Prefetch blocks during lazy vacuum's truncation scan
+-->
<para>
Improve speed of <command>VACUUM</>'s removal of trailing empty
heap pages (Claudio Freire, Álvaro Herrera)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-16 [d43a619c6] Fix check_srf_call_placement() to handle VALUES cases co
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-16 [d43a619c6] Fix check_srf_call_placement() to handle VALUES cases co
+-->
<para>
Fix <function>check_srf_call_placement()</> to handle
<command>VALUES</> cases correctly (Tom Lane)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-31 [e306df7f9] Full Text Search support for <type>JSON</> and <type>JSONB</>
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-31 [e306df7f9] Full Text Search support for JSON and JSONB
+-->
<para>
Add full text search support for <type>JSON</> and <type>JSONB</>
(Dmitry Dolgov)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-15 [c7a9fa399] Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-15 [c7a9fa399] Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8
+-->
<para>
Add support for <acronym>EUI-64</> <acronym>MAC</> addresses as
<link linkend="datatype-macaddr8"><type>MACADDR8</></> (Haribabu
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-06 [321732705] Identity columns
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-06 [321732705] Identity columns
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE">identity columns</> for
assigning a numeric value to columns on insert (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-07 [0ab9c56d0] Support renaming an existing value of an enum type.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-07 [0ab9c56d0] Support renaming an existing value of an enum type.
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="datatype-enum"><type>ENUM</></> values to be
renamed (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-22 [502a3832c] Correctly handle array pseudotypes in to_json and to_jso
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-22 [502a3832c] Correctly handle array pseudotypes in to_json and to_jso
+-->
<para>
Properly treat array pseudotypes
(<type>anyarray</>) as arrays in <link
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-17 [323b96aa3] Register missing money operators in system catalogs
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-17 [323b96aa3] Register missing money operators in system catalogs
+-->
<para>
Add operators for multiplication and division
of <link linkend="datatype-money"><type>money</></link> values
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-14 [656df624c] Add overflow checks to money type input function
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-14 [656df624c] Add overflow checks to money type input function
+-->
<para>
More strictly check the <type>money</> type for overflow operations
(Peter Eisentraut)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-17 [cf9b0fea5] Implement regexp_match(), a simplified alternative to re
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-17 [cf9b0fea5] Implement regexp_match(), a simplified alternative to re
+-->
<para>
Add simplified <link
linkend="functions-posix-regexp"><function>regexp_match()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-18 [d00ca333c] Implement array version of jsonb_delete and operator
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-18 [d00ca333c] Implement array version of jsonb_delete and operator
+-->
<para>
Add version of jsonb's <link
linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">delete operator</> that takes
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-06 [cf35346e8] Make json_populate_record and friends operate recursivel
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-06 [cf35346e8] Make json_populate_record and friends operate recursivel
+-->
<para>
Improve <link
linkend="functions-json-processing-table"><function>json_populate_record</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-23 [86f31695f] Add txid_current_ifassigned().
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-23 [86f31695f] Add txid_current_ifassigned().
+-->
<para>
Add function <link
linkend="functions-txid-snapshot"><function>txid_current_ifassigned()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-24 [857ee8e39] Add a txid_status function.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-24 [857ee8e39] Add a txid_status function.
+-->
<para>
Add function <link
linkend="functions-txid-snapshot"><function>txid_status()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-19 [30bcebbdc] Allow negative years in make_date to represent BC years
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-19 [30bcebbdc] Allow negative years in make_date to represent BC years
+-->
<para>
Allow <link
linkend="functions-formatting-table"><function>make_date()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-28 [d3cd36a13] Make to_timestamp() and to_date() range-check fields of
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-28 [d3cd36a13] Make to_timestamp() and to_date() range-check fields of
+-->
<para>
Have <function>to_timestamp()</> and <function>to_date()</> check
input values for validity (Artur Zakirov)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [70ec3f1f8] PL/Python: Add cursor and execute methods to plan object
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [70ec3f1f8] PL/Python: Add cursor and execute methods to plan object
+-->
<para>
Allow the PL/Python plan object to call cursor and execute methods
(Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-13 [55caaaeba] Improve handling of array elements as getdiag_targets an
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-13 [55caaaeba] Improve handling of array elements as getdiag_targets an
+-->
<para>
Allow PL/pgSQL's <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</> to retrieve values
into array elements (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-08 [1833f1a1c] Simplify code by getting rid of SPI_push, SPI_pop, SPI_r
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-08 [1833f1a1c] Simplify code by getting rid of SPI_push, SPI_pop, SPI_r
+-->
<para>
Remove <acronym>SPI</> functions <function>SPI_push()</>,
<function>SPI_pop()</>, <function>SPI_restore_connection()</>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-06 [26abb50c4] Support PL/Tcl functions that return composite types and
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-06 [26abb50c4] Support PL/Tcl functions that return composite types and
+-->
<para>
Allow PL/Tcl functions to return composite types and sets
(Jim Nasby)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-11 [b58fd4a9c] Add a "subtransaction" command to PL/Tcl.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-11 [b58fd4a9c] Add a "subtransaction" command to PL/Tcl.
+-->
<para>
Add a subtransaction command to PL/Tcl (Victor Wagner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-07 [0d2b1f305] Invent start_proc parameters for PL/Tcl.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-07 [0d2b1f305] Invent start_proc parameters for PL/Tcl.
+-->
<para>
Add <acronym>GUC</>s to allow initialization routines to be called
on PL/Tcl startup (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+
</sect4>
-
</sect3>
<sect3>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-03 [274bb2b38] libpq: Allow connection strings and <acronym>URI</>s to specify mult
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-03 [274bb2b38] libpq: Allow connection strings and URIs to specify mult
+-->
<para>
Allow libpq to connect to <link
linkend="libpq-connect-host">multiple specified</> host names
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-29 [721f7bd3c] libpq: Add target_session_attrs parameter.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-29 [721f7bd3c] libpq: Add target_session_attrs parameter.
+-->
<para>
Allow the libpq connection string to request a <link
linkend="libpq-connect-target-session-attrs">read/write host</>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-24 [ba005f193] Allow password file name to be specified as a libpq conn
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-24 [ba005f193] Allow password file name to be specified as a libpq conn
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="libpq-connect-passfile">password file name</>
to be specified as a libpq connection parameter (Julian Markwort)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-05-03 [8f8b9be51] Add PQencryptPasswordConn function to libpq, use it in p
- -->
+<!--
+2017-05-03 [8f8b9be51] Add PQencryptPasswordConn function to libpq, use it in p
+-->
<para>
Add function <link
linkend="libpq-pqencryptpasswordconn"><function>PQencryptPasswordConn()</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-16 [a7b5573d6] Remove separate version numbering for ecpg preprocessor.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-16 [a7b5573d6] Remove separate version numbering for ecpg preprocessor.
+-->
<para>
ecpg preprocessor version changed from 4.12 to 10 (Tom Lane)
</para>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
-
+
<sect3>
<title>Client Applications</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-30 [e984ef586] Support \if ... \elif ... \else ... \endif in psql scrip
- 2017-04-02 [5dbc5da11] Fix behavior of psql's \p to agree with \g, \w, etc.
- 2017-04-02 [68dba97a4] Document psql's behavior of recalling the previously exe
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-30 [e984ef586] Support \if ... \elif ... \else ... \endif in psql scrip
+2017-04-02 [5dbc5da11] Fix behavior of psql's \p to agree with \g, \w, etc.
+2017-04-02 [68dba97a4] Document psql's behavior of recalling the previously exe
+-->
<para>
Add conditional branch support to <application>psql</> (Corey
Huinker)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-07 [b2678efd4] psql: Add \gx command
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-07 [b2678efd4] psql: Add \gx command
+-->
<para>
Add <application>psql</> \gx command to perform \g(execute)
in expanded mode (\x) (Christoph Berg)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-03 [a0f357e57] psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dD
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-03 [a0f357e57] psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dD
+-->
<para>
Improve <application>psql</>'s \d (relation) and \dD (domain)
commands to specify collation, nullable, and default in separate
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-01 [f833c847b] Allow psql variable substitution to occur in backtick co
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-01 [f833c847b] Allow psql variable substitution to occur in backtick co
+-->
<para>
Expand <application>psql</> colon variables when used in
backtick-executed contexts (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-30 [511ae628f] Make psql reject attempts to set special variables to in
- 2017-02-01 [86322dc7e] Improve psql's behavior for \set and \unset of its contr
- 2017-02-02 [fd6cd6980] Clean up psql's behavior for a few more control variable
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-30 [511ae628f] Make psql reject attempts to set special variables to in
+2017-02-01 [86322dc7e] Improve psql's behavior for \set and \unset of its contr
+2017-02-02 [fd6cd6980] Clean up psql's behavior for a few more control variable
+-->
<para>
Prevent <application>psql</> special variables from being set to
invalid values (Daniel Vérité, Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-18 [49917dbd7] Improve psql's tab completion for ALTER EXTENSION foo UP
- 2016-08-18 [8019b5a89] Improve psql's tab completion for \l.
- 2016-09-01 [76f9dd4fa] Improve tab completion for BEGIN & START|SET TRANSACTION
- 2016-09-11 [52803098a] psql tab completion for CREATE DATABASE ... TEMPLATE ...
- 2016-09-12 [63c1a8719] Fix recent commit for tab-completion of database templat
- 2016-11-03 [1d15d0db5] psql: Tab-complete LOCK [TABLE] ... IN {ACCESS|ROW|SHARE
- 2016-11-04 [927d7bb6b] Improve tab completion for CREATE TRIGGER.
- 2016-11-08 [577f0bdd2] psql: Tab completion for renaming enum values.
- 2017-03-01 [b5a388392] psql: Add tab completion for DEALLOCATE
- 2017-03-16 [d7d77f382] psql: Add completion for \help DROP|ALTER
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-18 [49917dbd7] Improve psql's tab completion for ALTER EXTENSION foo UP
+2016-08-18 [8019b5a89] Improve psql's tab completion for \l.
+2016-09-01 [76f9dd4fa] Improve tab completion for BEGIN & START|SET TRANSACTION
+2016-09-11 [52803098a] psql tab completion for CREATE DATABASE ... TEMPLATE ...
+2016-09-12 [63c1a8719] Fix recent commit for tab-completion of database templat
+2016-11-03 [1d15d0db5] psql: Tab-complete LOCK [TABLE] ... IN {ACCESS|ROW|SHARE
+2016-11-04 [927d7bb6b] Improve tab completion for CREATE TRIGGER.
+2016-11-08 [577f0bdd2] psql: Tab completion for renaming enum values.
+2017-03-01 [b5a388392] psql: Add tab completion for DEALLOCATE
+2017-03-16 [d7d77f382] psql: Add completion for \help DROP|ALTER
+-->
<para>
Improve <application>psql</>'s tab completion (Jeff Janes,
Ian Barwick, Andreas Karlsson, Sehrope Sarkuni, Thomas Munro,
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-09 [41124a91e] pgbench: Allow the transaction log file prefix to be cha
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-09 [41124a91e] pgbench: Allow the transaction log file prefix to be cha
+-->
<para>
Add pgbench option <option>--log-prefix</> to control the log
file prefix (Masahiko Sawada)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-20 [cdc2a7047] Allow backslash line continuations in pgbench's meta com
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-20 [cdc2a7047] Allow backslash line continuations in pgbench's meta com
+-->
<para>
Allow pgbench's meta commands to span multiple lines via a
line-terminating backslash (Fabien Coelho)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-17 [cada1af31] Add compression support to pg_receivexlog
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-17 [cada1af31] Add compression support to pg_receivexlog
+-->
<para>
Add <link
linkend="app-pgreceivewal"><application>pg_receivewal</></>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-04 [7c030783a] Add pg_recvlogical \-\-endpos=LSN
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-04 [7c030783a] Add pg_recvlogical -\-endpos=LSN
+-->
<para>
Add <link
linkend="app-pgrecvlogical"><application>pg_recvlogical</></> option
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-19 [5d58c07a4] initdb pg_basebackup: Rename \-\-noxxx options to \-\-no-xxx
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-19 [5d58c07a4] initdb pg_basebackup: Rename -\-noxxx options to -\-no-x
+-->
<para>
Rename <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></>
options <option>--noclean</> and <option>--nosync</> to be spelled
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-20 [46b55e7f8] pg_restore: Add -N option to exclude schemas
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-20 [46b55e7f8] pg_restore: Add -N option to exclude schemas
+-->
<para>
Allow <application>pg_restore</> to exclude schemas (Michael Banck)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-29 [4fafa579b] Add \-\-no-blobs option to pg_dump
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-29 [4fafa579b] Add -\-no-blobs option to pg_dump
+-->
<para>
Add <option>--no-blobs</> option to
<application>pg_dump</> (Guillaume Lelarge)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-07 [9a83d56b3] Allow pg_dumpall to dump roles w/o user passwords
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-07 [9a83d56b3] Allow pg_dumpall to dump roles w/o user passwords
+-->
<para>
Add <application>pg_dumpall</> option
<option>--no-role-passwords</> to dump roles without user passwords
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-22 [96a7128b7] Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-22 [96a7128b7] Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
+-->
<para>
Issue fsync on the output files generated by
<application>pg_dump</> and
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
-
+
<sect4>
<title><xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-23 [56c7d8d45] Allow pg_basebackup to stream transaction log in tar mod
- 2016-12-21 [ecbdc4c55] Forbid invalid combination of options in pg_basebackup.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-23 [56c7d8d45] Allow pg_basebackup to stream transaction log in tar mod
+2016-12-21 [ecbdc4c55] Forbid invalid combination of options in pg_basebackup.
+-->
<para>
Allow <application>pg_basebackup</> to stream write-ahead log in
tar mode (Magnus Hagander)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-16 [e7b020f78] Make pg_basebackup use temporary replication slots
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-16 [e7b020f78] Make pg_basebackup use temporary replication slots
+-->
<para>
Make <application>pg_basebackup</> use temporary replication slots
(Magnus Hagander)
</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 [bc34223bc] pg_basebackup pg_receivexlog: Issue fsync more carefully
+2016-09-29 [6ed2d8584] pg_basebackup: Add - option
+-->
<para>
Improve fsync handling of <application>pg_basebackup</> and
<application>pg_receivewal</> (Michael Paquier)
<para>
Also add <option>--nosync</> option to disable fsync.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-28 [6ad8ac602] Exclude additional directories in pg_basebackup
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-28 [6ad8ac602] Exclude additional directories in pg_basebackup
+-->
<para>
Improve <application>pg_basebackup</>'s handling of which
directories to skip (David Steele)
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
-
+
<sect4>
<title><application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></></title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-21 [e7010ce47] pg_ctl: Add wait option to promote action
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-21 [e7010ce47] pg_ctl: Add wait option to promote action
+-->
<para>
Add wait option for <application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></>'s
promote operation (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-19 [0be22457d] pg_ctl: Add long options for -w and -W
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-19 [0be22457d] pg_ctl: Add long options for -w and -W
+-->
<para>
Add long options for <application>pg_ctl</> wait (<option>--wait</>)
and no-wait (<option>--no-wait</>) (Vik Fearing)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-19 [caf936b09] pg_ctl: Add long option for -o
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-19 [caf936b09] pg_ctl: Add long option for -o
+-->
<para>
Add long options flag for <application>pg_ctl</>
<literal>options</> (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+
</sect4>
-
</sect3>
<sect3>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-15 [ca9112a42] Stamp HEAD as 10devel.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-15 [ca9112a42] Stamp HEAD as 10devel.
+-->
<para>
New major version numbering (Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-23 [eccfef81e] ICU support
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-23 [eccfef81e] ICU support
+-->
<para>
Allow the <link linkend="configure"><acronym>ICU</></> library to
optionally be used for collation support (Peter Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-04 [c8ead2a39] Provide DLLEXPORT markers for C functions via PG_FUNCTIO
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-04 [c8ead2a39] Provide DLLEXPORT markers for C functions via PG_FUNCTIO
+-->
<para>
Automatically mark all <link
linkend="xfunc-c"><function>PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1</></> functions
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-02 [13e14a78e] Management of free memory pages.
- 2016-12-02 [13df76a53] Introduce dynamic shared memory areas.
- 2016-12-19 [e13029a5c] Provide a DSA area for all parallel queries.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-02 [13e14a78e] Management of free memory pages.
+2016-12-02 [13df76a53] Introduce dynamic shared memory areas.
+2016-12-19 [e13029a5c] Provide a DSA area for all parallel queries.
+-->
<para>
Allow shared memory to be dynamically allocated (Thomas Munro,
Robert Haas)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-27 [58b25e981] Add "Slab" MemoryContext implementation for efficient eq
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-27 [58b25e981] Add "Slab" MemoryContext implementation for efficient eq
+-->
<para>
Add slab-like memory allocator for efficient fixed-size allocations
(Tomas Vondra)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-09 [ecb0d20a9] Use unnamed POSIX semaphores, if available, on Linux and
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-09 [ecb0d20a9] Use unnamed POSIX semaphores, if available, on Linux and
+-->
<para>
Use <acronym>POSIX</> semaphores rather than SysV semaphores
on <systemitem class="osname">Linux</> and <systemitem
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-07 [e8fdbd58f] Improve 64bit atomics support.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-07 [e8fdbd58f] Improve 64bit atomics support.
+-->
<para>
Improve support for 64-bit atomics (Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-10 [f8f1430ae] Enable 64 bit atomics on ARM64.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-10 [f8f1430ae] Enable 64 bit atomics on ARM64.
+-->
<para>
Enable 64-bit atomic operations on <acronym>ARM64</> (Roman
Shaposhnik)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-01-02 [1d63f7d2d] Use clock_gettime(), if available, in instr_time measure
- -->
+<!--
+2017-01-02 [1d63f7d2d] Use clock_gettime(), if available, in instr_time measure
+-->
<para>
Switch to using <function>clock_gettime()</>, if available, for
duration measurements (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-12-05 [fe0a0b599] Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, secon
- -->
+<!--
+2016-12-05 [fe0a0b599] Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, secon
+-->
<para>
Add more robust random number generators to be used for
cryptographic secure uses (Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier,
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-18 [e8306745e] doc: Speed up XSLT builds
- 2016-08-24 [0e4cc1fc5] doc: Fix XSLT speedup with older upstream stylesheet ver
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-18 [e8306745e] doc: Speed up XSLT builds
+2016-08-24 [0e4cc1fc5] doc: Fix XSLT speedup with older upstream stylesheet ver
+-->
<para>
Overhaul documentation <link linkend="docguide-toolsets">build
process</> (Alexander Lakhin, Alexander Law)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-06 [510074f9f] Remove use of Jade and DSSSL
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-06 [510074f9f] Remove use of Jade and DSSSL
+-->
<para>
Use <acronym>XSLT</> to build the Postgres documentation (Peter
Eisentraut)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-15 [e36ddab11] Build HTML documentation using XSLT stylesheets by defau
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-15 [e36ddab11] Build HTML documentation using XSLT stylesheets by defau
+-->
<para>
Build <acronym>HTML</> documentation using <acronym>XSLT</>
stylesheets by default (Peter Eisentraut)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-29 [8e91e12bc] Allow contrib/file_fdw to read from a program, like COPY
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-29 [8e91e12bc] Allow contrib/file_fdw to read from a program, like COPY
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="file-fdw"><application>file_fdw</></> to read
from program output as well as files (Corey Huinker, Adam Gomaa)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-21 [7012b132d] postgres_fdw: Push down aggregates to remote servers.
- 2017-04-24 [332bec1e6] postgres_fdw: Fix join push down with extensions
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-21 [7012b132d] postgres_fdw: Push down aggregates to remote servers.
+2017-04-24 [332bec1e6] postgres_fdw: Fix join push down with extensions
+-->
<para>
Push aggregates to foreign data wrapper servers, where possible
(Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-16 [b30fb56b0] postgres_fdw: Push down <literal>FULL JOIN</>s with restriction clau
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-16 [b30fb56b0] postgres_fdw: Push down FULL JOINs with restriction clau
+-->
<para>
Allow push down of <literal>FULL JOIN</> queries containing
subqueries in the
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-08-26 [ae025a159] Support OID system column in postgres_fdw.
- -->
+<!--
+2016-08-26 [ae025a159] Support OID system column in postgres_fdw.
+-->
<para>
Properly support <type>OID</> columns in
<application>postgres_fdw</> tables (Etsuro Fujita)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-21 [f7946a92b] Add btree_gist support for enum types.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-21 [f7946a92b] Add btree_gist support for enum types.
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="btree-gist"><application>btree_gist</></>
and <link linkend="btree-gin"><application>btree_gin</></> to
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-11-29 [11da83a0e] Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_
- -->
+<!--
+2016-11-29 [11da83a0e] Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_
+-->
<para>
Add indexing support to <application>btree_gist</> for the
<type>UUID</> data type (Paul Jungwirth)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-09 [3717dc149] Add amcheck extension to contrib.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-09 [3717dc149] Add amcheck extension to contrib.
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="amcheck"><application>amcheck</></> which can
check the validity of btree indexes (Peter Geoghegan)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-27 [a6f22e835] Show ignored constants as "$N" rather than "?" in pg_sta
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-27 [a6f22e835] Show ignored constants as "$N" rather than "?" in pg_sta
+-->
<para>
Show ignored constants as <literal>$N</> rather than <literal>?</>
in
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-27 [f31a931fa] Improve contrib/cube's handling of zero-D cubes, infinit
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-27 [f31a931fa] Improve contrib/cube's handling of zero-D cubes, infinit
+-->
<para>
Improve <link linkend="cube"><application>cube</></>'s handling
of zero-dimensional cubes (Tom Lane)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-29 [6e654546f] Don't bother to lock bufmgr partitions in pg_buffercache
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-29 [6e654546f] Don't bother to lock bufmgr partitions in pg_buffercache
+-->
<para>
Allow <link
linkend="pgbuffercache"><application>pg_buffercache</></> to run
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-03 [e759854a0] pgstattuple: Add pgstathashindex.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-03 [e759854a0] pgstattuple: Add pgstathashindex.
+-->
<para>
Add <function>pgstathashindex()</> function to <link
linkend="pgstattuple"><application>pgstattuple</></> to view hash
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-09-29 [fd321a1df] Remove superuser checks in pgstattuple
- -->
+<!--
+2016-09-29 [fd321a1df] Remove superuser checks in pgstattuple
+-->
<para>
Allow <link linkend="pgstattuple"><application>pgstattuple</></>
to use <command>GRANT</> permissions (Stephen Frost)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2016-10-28 [d4b5d4cad] pgstattuple: Don't take heavyweight locks when examining
- -->
+<!--
+2016-10-28 [d4b5d4cad] pgstattuple: Don't take heavyweight locks when examining
+-->
<para>
Reduce locking when <link
linkend="pgstattuple"><application>pgstattuple</></> examines hash
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-03-17 [fef2bcdcb] pageinspect: Add page_checksum function
- -->
+<!--
+2017-03-17 [fef2bcdcb] pageinspect: Add page_checksum function
+-->
<para>
Add <function>page_checksum()</> function to <link
linkend="pageinspect"><application>pageinspect</></> (Tomas Vondra)
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-02-02 [08bf6e529] pageinspect: Support hash indexes.
- -->
+<!--
+2017-02-02 [08bf6e529] pageinspect: Support hash indexes.
+-->
<para>
Add hash index support to <link
linkend="pageinspect"><application>pageinspect</></> (Jesper
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <!--
- 2017-04-04 [193f5f9e9] pageinspect: Add bt_page_items function with bytea argum
- -->
+<!--
+2017-04-04 [193f5f9e9] pageinspect: Add bt_page_items function with bytea argum
+-->
<para>
Add <link linkend="pageinspect"><application>pageinspect</></>
function <function>bt_page_items()</> to print page items from a
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