Update 9.6 release notes through today.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
index a14545d5d80e20deadf927ce60cf256b4cf83bd4..74b5bcaa507dc66d48e49881e732b9363c073d42 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   
    Release Date
    2016-??-??
-   Current as of 2016-05-08 (commit 6f69b9639)
+   Current as of 2016-06-18 (commit 100340e2d)
   
 
   
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@
 2016-04-05 [11c8669c0] Add parallel query support functions for assorted aggreg
 2016-04-08 [25fe8b5f1] Add a 'parallel_degree' reloption.
 2016-04-27 [59eb55127] Fix EXPLAIN VERBOSE output for parallel aggregate.
+2016-06-09 [c9ce4a1c6] Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology.
+2016-06-16 [75be66464] Invent min_parallel_relation_size GUC to replace a hard-
 -->
        
         Parallel queries (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, David Rowley, many others)
@@ -155,8 +157,9 @@
         configuration parameters
         ,
         ,
-        , and
-        .
+        ,
+        , and
+        .
        
       
 
@@ -255,6 +258,7 @@
 2016-03-08 [77a1d1e79] Department of second thoughts: remove PD_ALL_FROZEN.
 2016-03-10 [fd31cd265] Don't vacuum all-frozen pages.
 2016-03-11 [7087166a8] pg_upgrade: Convert old visibility map format to new for
+2016-06-17 [ede62e56f] Add VACUUM (DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) for emergencies.
 -->
        
         Avoid re-vacuuming pages containing only frozen tuples
@@ -269,6 +273,13 @@
         transaction wraparound prevention.  This should greatly reduce the
         cost of maintaining large tables containing mostly-unchanging data.
        
+
+       
+        If necessary, vacuum can be forced to process all-frozen pages
+        using its new DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING option.  This
+        should never be needed normally, but it might help for example
+        in recovering from visibility-map corruption.
+       
       
 
       
@@ -349,6 +360,7 @@
 2016-04-26 [72a98a639] Don't open formally non-existent segments in _mdfd_getse
 2016-05-04 [a71248708] Fix transient mdsync() errors of truncated relations due
 2016-02-16 [7975c5e0a] Allow the WAL writer to flush WAL at a reduced rate.
+2016-06-10 [4bc0f165c] Change default of backend_flush_after GUC to 0 (disabled
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         Where feasible, trigger kernel writeback after a configurable number
@@ -446,14 +458,16 @@
       
 
        
-        Use foreign key relationships to infer selectivity for multi-column
+        Use foreign key relationships to infer selectivity for
         join predicates (Tomas Vondra, David Rowley)
        
 
        
-        If a table t has a multi-column foreign key restriction,
+        If a table t has a foreign key restriction,
         say (a,b) REFERENCES r (x,y), then a WHERE
         condition such as t.a = r.x AND t.b = r.y cannot select
         more than one r row per t row.  The planner
@@ -2044,6 +2058,7 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and psql
       
 
        
         Extend PL/Python's error-reporting and message-reporting functions to
@@ -2366,6 +2381,7 @@ This commit is also listed under psql and PL/pgSQL
       
 
        
         Improve the headers output by the \watch command
@@ -2376,6 +2392,8 @@ This commit is also listed under psql and PL/pgSQL
         Include the \pset title string if one has been set, and
         shorten the prefabricated part of the header to be
         timestamp (every Ns).
+        Also, the timestamp format now obeys psql's locale
+        environment.
        
       
 
@@ -3268,6 +3286,7 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and PL/pgSQL
       
 
        
         Transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server