Copy-editing of release notes.

Remove a couple of items that were actually back-patched bug fixes.
Add additional details to a couple of items which lacked a description.
Improve attributions for a couple of items I was involved with.
A few other miscellaneous corrections.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
index d8f8174333f653865be943a694d21b069a922999..49686d984473fd97fff239e3cfd074abd65985fe 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
       
        
         Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
-        lightweight lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
+        fast-path lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
        
       
 
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
        
         Add the SP-GiST (Space-Partitioned
         GiST) index access method (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Tom
-        Lane, Robert Haas)
+        Lane)
        
 
        
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
       
        
         Allow group commit to work effectively under heavy load (Peter
-        Geoghegan, Simon Riggs)
+        Geoghegan, Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
        
 
        
@@ -870,8 +870,8 @@
 
       
        
-        Change "unexpected EOF" message to DEBUG1 level
-        (Magnus Hagander)
+        Change "unexpected EOF" message to DEBUG1 level,
+        except when there is an open transaction (Magnus Hagander)
        
       
 
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
        
         Report checkpoint timing information in 
         linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view">pg_stat_bgwriter
-        (Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas)
+        (Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan)
        
       
 
@@ -1088,8 +1088,8 @@
        
 
        
-        This only writes data to the socket, but does not wait a write
-        to the remote disk.
+        This waits for the remote server to acknowledge that it has received
+        the data, but does not wait for it to be written to the remote disk.
        
       
 
@@ -1224,6 +1224,13 @@
         Provide more reliable operation during concurrent
         DDL (Robert Haas, Noah Misch)
        
+
+       
+        This eliminates "cache lookup failed" errors in many scenarios.
+        Also, it is no longer possible to add relations to a schema which
+        is being concurrently dropped, a scenario that formerly led to
+        inconsistent system catalog contents.
+       
       
 
       
@@ -1286,19 +1293,6 @@
         constraints (Peter Eisentraut)
        
       
-
-      
-       
-        Disallow merging of ONLY and non-ONLY
-        constraints in child tables (Nikhil Sontakke)
-       
-
-       
-        Such merging would cause unpredictable behavior in grandchild
-        tables.
-       
-      
-
      
 
     
@@ -1312,13 +1306,32 @@
        
         Reduce need to rebuild tables and indexes for various 
         linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE">ALTER TABLE
-        operations (Noah Misch) DUPLICATE?
+        operations (Noah Misch)
+       
+
+       
+        Increasing the length constraint on a varchar or
+        varbit column, or removing it altogether, no longer
+        requires a table rewrite.  Increasing the allowable precision of
+        a numeric constraint, or changing a column from constrained
+        numeric to unconstrained numeric, no longer requires a
+        table rewrite.  Table rewrites are also avoided in similar cases
+        involving the interval, timestamp, and
+        timestamptz types.
        
       
 
       
        
-        Add IF EXIST clause to ALTER
+        Avoid having ALTER
+        TABLE revalidate foreign key constraints in some
+        cases where it is not necessary (Noah Misch)
+       
+      
+
+      
+       
+        Add IF EXISTS clause to ALTER
         commands (Pavel Stehule)
        
 
@@ -1396,20 +1409,6 @@
         This also allows a table to be created whose schema matches a view.
        
       
-
-      
-       
-        Tighten creation of tables in temporary schemas (Robert Haas,
-        Amit Khandekar)
-       
-
-       
-        Previously, it was possible to create unlogged tables in temporary
-        schemas, and temporary tables in the temporary schemas of other
-        sessions.
-       
-      
-
      
 
     
@@ -1423,7 +1422,7 @@
        
         Add a 
         linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW">security_barrier
-        option for views (KaiGai Kohei)
+        option for views (KaiGai Kohei, Robert Haas)
        
 
        
@@ -1540,7 +1539,7 @@
       
        
         Add a JSON
-        data type (Robert Haas)  AUTHOR?
+        data type (Robert Haas)
        
 
        




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