Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.

I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related
entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
index 386f28346b95aa4dbdc6e113b8fa0ad0c93045dc..b62c9e7cdced766f9b0fb76c376b5e0bd1563af6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   
    Release Date
    2012-??-??
-   CURRENT AS OF 2012-05-09
+   CURRENT AS OF 2012-08-21
   
 
   
@@ -303,10 +303,6 @@
         Remove GUC wal_sender_delay,
         as it is no longer needed (Tom Lane)
        
-
-       
-        The new "latch" capability made this setting unnecessary.
-       
       
 
       
@@ -552,6 +548,20 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Improve performance of buffer pool scans that occur when tables or
+        databases are dropped (Jeff Janes, Simon Riggs)
+       
+      
+
+      
+       
+        Improve performance of checkpoint process's fsync-request queue
+        when many tables are being dropped or truncated (Tom Lane)
+       
+      
+
      
 
     
@@ -590,27 +600,16 @@
 
       
        
-        Allow backends to detect postmaster death via a pipe read failure,
-        rather than polling (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
+        Allow the bgwriter, walwriter, checkpointer, 
+        linkend="monitoring-stats">statistics collector, log
+        collector, and archiver background processes to sleep more
+        efficiently during periods of inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane)
        
 
        
-        The wait events are internally called "latches".
-       
-      
-
-      
-       
-        Allow the bgwriter,
-        walwriter, 
-        linkend="monitoring-stats">statistics collector, archiver,
-        and checkpointer to sleep more efficiently during periods of
-        inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane)
-       
-
-       
-        This reduces CPU wake-ups, which dramatically
-        reduces power consumption on idle servers.
+        This series of changes reduces the frequency of process wake-ups when
+        there is nothing to do, dramatically reducing power consumption on
+        idle servers.
        
       
 
@@ -697,6 +696,13 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Account for set-returning functions in SELECT target
+        lists when setting rowcount estimates (Tom Lane)
+       
+      
+
      
 
     
@@ -1401,6 +1407,13 @@
         This also allows a table to be created whose schema matches a view.
        
       
+
+      
+       
+        Fix CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) to avoid index name
+        conflicts when copying index comments (Tom Lane)
+       
+      
      
 
     
@@ -1435,14 +1448,14 @@
 
       
        
-        Add support for privileges on date types (Peter Eisentraut)
+        Add support for privileges on data types (Peter Eisentraut)
        
 
        
         This adds support for the SQL-conforming
         USAGE privilege on types and domains.  The intent is
-        to be able restrict which users can create dependencies on types,
-        which restricts the way in which owners can alter types.
+        to be able to restrict which users can create dependencies on types,
+        since such dependencies limit the owner's ability to alter the type.
        
       
 
@@ -1656,7 +1669,7 @@
        
 
        
-        Previously only the superuser could use these functions.
+        Previously only superusers could use these functions.
        
       
 
@@ -1927,6 +1940,12 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Remove support for Python 2.2 (Peter Eisentraut)
+       
+      
+
      
 
     
@@ -2317,6 +2336,27 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Make pg_dump emit more useful dependency
+        information (Tom Lane)
+       
+
+       
+        The dependency links included in archive-format dumps were formerly
+        of very limited use, because they frequently referenced objects that
+        appeared nowhere in the dump.  Now they represent actual dependencies
+        (possibly indirect) among the dumped objects.
+       
+      
+
+      
+       
+        Improve pg_dump's performance when dumping many
+        database objects (Tom Lane)
+       
+      
+
      
 
     
@@ -2408,6 +2448,17 @@
 
      
 
+      
+       
+        Remove dead ports (Peter Eisentraut)
+       
+
+       
+        The following platforms are no longer considered supported: dgux,
+        nextstep, sunos4, svr4, ultrix4, univel, bsdi.
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Add support for building with MS
@@ -2428,6 +2479,18 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Improve the latch facility to include detection of postmaster death
+        (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
+       
+
+       
+        This eliminates one of the main reasons that background processes
+        formerly had to wake up to poll for events.
+       
+      
+
       
        
         Use C flexible array members, where supported (Peter Eisentraut)
@@ -2520,12 +2583,7 @@
 
       
        
-        Remove dead ports (Peter Eisentraut)
-       
-
-       
-        The removed ports are: dgux, nextstep, sunos4, svr4, ultrix4,
-        univel, bsdi.
+        Support Linux's /proc/self/oom_score_adj API (Tom Lane)
        
       
 
@@ -2534,7 +2592,7 @@
    
 
    
-    Modules
+    <span class="marked">Additional </span>Modules
 
     
 
@@ -2851,6 +2909,19 @@
        
       
 
+      
+       
+        Deprecate use of GLOBAL and LOCAL in
+        CREATE TEMP TABLE (Noah Misch)
+       
+
+       
+        PostgreSQL has long treated these keyword as no-ops,
+        and continues to do so; but in future they might mean what the SQL
+        standard says they mean, so applications should avoid using them.
+       
+      
+