Update 9.5 release notes through today.

Also do another round of copy-editing, and fix up remaining FIXME items.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
index 110ba40c4dfcc55d7eaad148f02b94f2798d7590..7690a90c50911a72ad638c11c85c7107765771fd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
   
    Release Date
-   2015-??-??
-   Current as of 2015-11-07
+   2016-??-??
+   Current as of 2015-12-15
   
 
   
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
     
      
-      Allow INSERTS
+      Allow INSERTs
       that would generate constraint conflicts to be turned into
       UPDATEs or ignored
      
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
     
      
-      Add GROUP BY analysis functions 
+      Add GROUP BY analysis features 
       linkend="queries-grouping-sets">GROUPING SETS,
       CUBE and
       ROLLUP
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@
 2015-05-08 [9a08841] Stephe..: Change default for include_realm to 1
 -->
      
-      Change the default value of 
-      linkend="gssapi-auth">include_realm to 1, so that
-      by default the realm is not removed from a GSS
+      Change the default value of the GSSAPI 
+      linkend="gssapi-auth">include_realm parameter to 1, so
+      that by default the realm is not removed from a GSS
       or SSPI principal name (Stephen Frost)
      
     
@@ -201,18 +201,26 @@
     
 
     
+
+     
+      Replace configuration parameter checkpoint_segments
+      with 
+      and  (Heikki Linnakangas)
+     
+
      
-      The configuration parameter checkpoint_segments has
-      been removed.  Its place is taken by the new
-      setting .  If you had previously
-      tuned checkpoint_segments, the following formula will
-      give you an approximately equivalent setting:
+      If you previously adjusted checkpoint_segments, the
+      following formula will give you an approximately equivalent setting:
 
 max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
 
       Note that the default setting for max_wal_size is
       much higher than the default checkpoint_segments used
-      to be, so setting this might no longer be necessary.
+      to be, so adjusting it might no longer be necessary.
      
     
 
@@ -222,7 +230,7 @@ max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
 2015-07-28 [6087d95] Andres..: Remove ssl renegotiation support.
 -->
      
-      Disable server configuration
+      Decommission server configuration
       parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit, which was deprecated
       in earlier releases (Andres Freund)
      
@@ -253,8 +261,21 @@ max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
 2015-03-06 [bb8582a] Peter ..: Remove rolcatupdate
 -->
      
-      Remove pg_authid's
-      rolcatupdate field, as it had no value (Adam Brightwell)
+      Remove the pg_authid
+      catalog's rolcatupdate field, as it had no usefulness
+      (Adam Brightwell)
+     
+    
+
+    
+
+     
+      The 
+      linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table">pg_stat_replication
+      system view's sent field is now NULL, not zero, when
+      it has no valid value (Magnus Hagander)
      
     
 
@@ -264,9 +285,13 @@ max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
 -->
      
       Allow json and jsonb array extraction operators to
-      accept negative subscripts, which count from the end of JSON arrays.
+      accept negative subscripts, which count from the end of JSON arrays
+      (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Dunstan)
+     
+
+     
       Previously, these operators returned NULL for negative
-      subscripts.  (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Dunstan)
+      subscripts.
      
     
 
@@ -322,10 +347,10 @@ max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
        
 
        
-        Previously, a common table expression was required to return a
-        large number of rows ordered by bounding-box distance, and the
-        result then had to be filtered further with a more accurate
-        non-bounding-box distance calculation.
+        Previously, to exploit such an index a subquery had to be used to
+        select a large number of rows ordered by bounding-box distance, and
+        the result then had to be filtered further with a more accurate
+        distance calculation.
        
       
 
@@ -352,9 +377,11 @@ Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
        
 
        
-        Previously the list size was controlled
-        by .  This can also be set as an index
-        storage parameter.
+        This value can also be set on a per-index basis as an index storage
+        parameter.  Previously the pending-list size was controlled
+        by , which was awkward because
+        appropriate values for work_mem are often much too large
+        for this purpose.
        
       
 
@@ -701,7 +728,6 @@ Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
 2015-02-23 [88e9823] Heikki..: Replace checkpoint_segments with min_wal_size a..
 2015-03-15 [a0f5954] Andres..: Increase max_wal_size's default from 128MB to 1..
 2015-06-29 [d661532] Heikki..: Also trigger restartpoints based on max_wal_siz..
-FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 -->
        
         Replace configuration parameter checkpoint_segments
@@ -710,10 +736,14 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
 
        
-        This allows the allocation of a large number of WAL files
-        without keeping them if they are not needed. Thus the default
-        for  has been increased
-        to 1GB.
+        This change allows the allocation of a large number of WAL
+        files without keeping them after they are no longer needed.
+        Therefore the default for max_wal_size has been set
+        to 1GB, much larger than the old default
+        for checkpoint_segments.
+        Also note that standby servers perform restartpoints to try to limit
+        their WAL space consumption to max_wal_size; previously
+        they did not pay any attention to checkpoint_segments.
        
       
 
@@ -750,8 +780,9 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 2015-04-03 [a75fb9b] Alvaro..: Have autovacuum workers listen to SIGHUP, too
 -->
        
-        Allow running autovacuum workers
-        to respond to configuration parameter changes (Michael Paquier)
+        Allow autovacuum workers
+        to respond to configuration parameter changes during a run
+        (Michael Paquier)
        
       
 
@@ -993,7 +1024,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 -->
        
         Allow recovery.conf's 
-        linkend="primary-conninfo">primary_conninfo to
+        linkend="primary-conninfo">primary_conninfo setting to
         use connection URIs, e.g. postgres://
         (Alexander Shulgin)
        
@@ -1014,7 +1045,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 2015-05-08 [2c8f483] Andres..: Represent columns requiring insert and update p..
 -->
        
-        Allow INSERTS
+        Allow INSERTs
         that would generate constraint conflicts to be turned into
         UPDATEs or ignored (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki
         Linnakangas, Andres Freund)
@@ -1032,7 +1063,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 2015-05-16 [f3d3118] Andres..: Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.
 -->
        
-        Add GROUP BY analysis functions 
+        Add GROUP BY analysis features 
         linkend="queries-grouping-sets">GROUPING SETS,
         CUBE and
         ROLLUP
@@ -1205,8 +1236,9 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
 
        
-        This controls viewing and adding/modifying rows via new commands
-        CREATE/
+        This feature allows row-by-row control over which users can add,
+        modify, or even see rows in a table.  This is controlled by new
+        commands CREATE/
         linkend="SQL-ALTERPOLICY">ALTER/
         linkend="SQL-DROPPOLICY">DROP POLICY and 
         linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE">ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE/DISABLE
@@ -1221,7 +1253,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
         Allow changing of the WAL
         logging status of a table after creation with 
-        linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE">ALTER TABLE .. SET LOGGED /
+        linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE">ALTER TABLE ... SET LOGGED /
         UNLOGGED (Fabrízio de Royes Mello)
        
       
@@ -1277,7 +1309,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 2015-06-21 [ad89a5d] Alvaro..: Add transforms to pg_get_object_address and fr..
 -->
        
-        Allow comments on domain
+        Support comments on domain
         constraints (Álvaro Herrera)
        
       
@@ -1297,14 +1329,14 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 2015-05-11 [fa26424] Stephe..: Allow LOCK TABLE .. ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE with IN..
 -->
        
-        Allow LOCK TABLE .. ROW EXCLUSIVE
+        Allow LOCK TABLE ... ROW EXCLUSIVE
         MODE for those with INSERT privileges (Stephen
         Frost)
        
 
        
-        Previously this required UPDATE, DELETE, or
-        TRUNCATE privileges.
+        Previously this command required UPDATE, DELETE,
+        or TRUNCATE privileges.
        
       
 
@@ -1336,10 +1368,10 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
 
        
-        This allows these database settings to be
-        changed more easily than modifying the 
+        This allows these per-database settings to be
+        changed without manually modifying the 
         linkend="catalog-pg-database">pg_database
-        system table.
+        system catalog.
        
       
 
@@ -1368,34 +1400,36 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 
       
 
        
-        Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance (Shigeru Hanada,
-        Etsuro Fujita)
+        Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables
+        (Shigeru Hanada, Etsuro Fujita)
        
 
        
-        This also allows foreign tables to mark check constraints as not
-        valid, and to set storage and OID characteristics.
+        Such constraints are assumed to be enforced on the remote server,
+        and are not enforced locally.  However, they are assumed to hold for
+        purposes of query optimization, such
+        as constraint
+        exclusion.
        
       
 
       
 
        
-        Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables
-        (Shigeru Hanada, Etsuro Fujita)
+        Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance (Shigeru Hanada,
+        Etsuro Fujita)
        
 
        
-        These constraints are assumed to be enforced on the remote server,
-        and are not enforced locally.  However, they are assumed to hold for
-        purposes of query optimization, such
-        as constraint
-        exclusion.
+        To let this work naturally, foreign tables are now allowed to have
+        check constraints marked as not valid, and to set storage
+        and OID characteristics, even though these operations are
+        effectively no-ops for a foreign table.
        
       
 
@@ -1422,12 +1456,18 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
 
         
-         Add a set-returning function 
-         linkend="pg-event-trigger-ddl-command-end-functions">pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands(), which returns DDL activity
-         associated with event triggers (Álvaro Herrera)
+         Whenever a ddl_command_end event trigger is installed,
+         capture details of DDL activity for it to inspect
+         (Álvaro Herrera)
+        
+
+        
+         This information is available through a set-returning function 
+         linkend="pg-event-trigger-ddl-command-end-functions">pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands(),
+         or by inspection of C data structures if that function doesn't
+         provide enough detail.
         
        
 
@@ -1488,7 +1528,7 @@ FIXME: Better description?
 -->
       
        Allow the xml data type
-       to accept empty or all-whitespace values (Peter Eisentraut)
+       to accept empty or all-whitespace content values (Peter Eisentraut)
       
 
       
@@ -1510,17 +1550,19 @@ FIXME: Better description?
      
 
       
-       Tighten syntax of 
-       linkend="datatype-interval-input">interval> precision
-       specifications (Bruce Momjian)
+       Disallow non-SQL-standard syntax for 
+       linkend="datatype-interval-input">intervallink> with
+       both precision and field specifications (Bruce Momjian)
       
 
       
-       Only allow interval precision to be specified after the
-       INTERVAL keyword if no units are specified.
+       Per the standard, such type specifications should be written as,
+       for example, INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND(2).
+       PostgreSQL formerly allowed this to be written as
+       INTERVAL(2) MINUTE TO SECOND, but it must now be
+       written in the standard way.
       
      
 
@@ -1545,8 +1587,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        Add data
        types regrole
        and regnamespace
-       that simplify pretty-printing the OID of a role or
-       namespace (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+       that simplify entering and pretty-printing the OID of a role
+       or namespace (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
       
      
 
@@ -1563,7 +1605,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2015-05-31 [37def42] Andrew..: Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it ..
 -->
        
-        Add JSONB functions 
+        Add jsonb functions 
         linkend="functions-json-processing-table">jsonb_set()
         and 
         linkend="functions-json-processing-table">jsonb_pretty()
@@ -1576,12 +1618,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-12-12 [7e354ab] Andrew..: Add several generator functions for jsonb that ..
 -->
        
-        Add several generator functions for jsonb that already
-        existed for json (Andrew Dunstan)
-       
-
-       
-        These are 
+        Add jsonb generator functions 
         linkend="functions-json-creation-table">to_jsonb(),
         
         linkend="functions-json-creation-table">jsonb_object(),
@@ -1592,7 +1629,12 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
         
         linkend="functions-aggregate-table">jsonb_agg(),
         and 
-        linkend="functions-aggregate-table">jsonb_object_agg().
+        linkend="functions-aggregate-table">jsonb_object_agg()
+        (Andrew Dunstan)
+       
+
+       
+        Equivalent functions already existed for type json.
        
       
 
@@ -1638,7 +1680,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
         linkend="functions-json-processing-table">json_strip_nulls()
         and 
         linkend="functions-json-processing-table">jsonb_strip_nulls()
-        functions to remove json null values from documents
+        functions to remove JSON null values from documents
         (Andrew Dunstan)
        
       
@@ -1694,7 +1736,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-12-15 [4520ba6] Heikki..: Add point <-> polygon distance operator.
 -->
        
-        Add 
+        Add a 
         linkend="gist-builtin-opclasses-table">point-to-polygon
         distance operator (<->) (Alexander Korotkov)
        
@@ -1705,7 +1747,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-08-27 [8167a38] Jeff D..: Allow multibyte characters as escape in SIMILA..
 -->
        
-        Allow multibyte characters as escape in 
+        Allow multibyte characters as escapes in 
         linkend="functions-similarto-regexp">SIMILAR TO
         and SUBSTRING
         (Jeff Davis)
@@ -1804,8 +1846,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        
 
        
-        Now, role membership is sufficient; previously only the same
-        role could perform these operations.
+        Previously, only the specific role owning the target session could
+        perform these operations; now membership in that role is sufficient.
        
       
 
@@ -1951,7 +1993,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2015-03-25 [a4847fc] Tom Lane: Add an ASSERT statement in plpgsql.
 -->
       
-       Add ASSERT
+       Add an ASSERT
        statement in PL/pgSQL (Pavel Stehule)
       
      
@@ -2054,6 +2096,17 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 
      
 
+      
+       In vacuumdb, do not
+       prompt for the same password repeatedly when multiple connections
+       are necessary (Haribabu Kommi, Michael Paquier)
+      
+     
+
+     
+
       
@@ -2107,13 +2160,13 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-07-10 [5b214c5] Fujii ..: Add new ECHO mode 'errors' that displays only ..
 -->
         
-         Add errors mode to psql's
-         ECHO variable to display only failed commands
+         Add an errors mode that displays only failed commands
+         to psql's ECHO variable
          (Pavel Stehule)
         
 
         
-         This can also be enabled with the psql
+         This behavior can also be selected with psql's
          -b option.
         
        
@@ -2168,6 +2221,22 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 
        
 
+        
+         psql now fails if the file specified by
+         an --output or --log-file switch cannot be
+         written (Tom Lane, Daniel Verite)
+        
+
+        
+         Previously, it effectively ignored the switch in such cases.
+        
+       
+
+       
+
         
@@ -2207,10 +2276,12 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
         
 
         
-         variables shows psql's special variables
-         and options shows command-line options.
-         \? commands is the default output. This help
-         information can also be output via --help=section.
+         \? variables shows psql's special
+         variables and \? options shows the command-line options.
+         \? commands shows the meta-commands, which is the
+         traditional output and remains the default.  These help displays
+         can also be obtained with the command-line
+         option --help=section.
         
        
 
@@ -2245,7 +2316,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 
         
          Also prevent --echo-hidden from echoing
-         \watch queries.
+         \watch queries, since that is generally unwanted.
         
        
 
@@ -2254,8 +2325,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-11-22 [eca2b9b] Andrew..: Rework echo_hidden for \sf and \ef from commit ..
 -->
         
-         Allow psql's \sf and \ef
-         to honor ECHO_HIDDEN (Andrew Dunstan)
+         Make psql's \sf and \ef
+         commands honor ECHO_HIDDEN (Andrew Dunstan)
         
        
 
@@ -2310,10 +2381,26 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 
       
 
+       
+        Support table sizes exceeding 8GB in tar archive format (Tom Lane)
+       
+
+       
+        The POSIX standard for tar format does not allow elements of a tar
+        archive to exceed 8GB, but most modern implementations of tar
+        support an extension that does allow it.  Use the extension format
+        when necessary, rather than failing.
+       
+      
+
+      
+
        
-        Always have pg_dump print server and
+        Make pg_dump always print the server and
         pg_dump versions (Jing Wang)
        
 
@@ -2348,8 +2435,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-08-25 [ebe30ad] Bruce ..: pg_ctl, pg_upgrade:  allow multiple -o/-O opti..
 -->
        
-        Allow multiple pg_ctl -o options to
-        be appended (Bruce Momjian)
+        Support multiple pg_ctl -o options,
+        concatenating their values (Bruce Momjian)
        
       
 
@@ -2368,6 +2455,23 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        
       
 
+      
+
+       
+        If the server's listen address is set to a wildcard value
+        (0.0.0.0 in IPv4 or :: in IPv6), connect via
+        the loopback address rather than trying to use the wildcard address
+        literally (Kondo Yuta)
+       
+
+       
+        This fix primarily affects Windows, since on other platforms
+        pg_ctl will prefer to use a Unix-domain socket.
+       
+      
+
      
 
     
@@ -2398,8 +2502,9 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-08-25 [ebe30ad] Bruce ..: pg_ctl, pg_upgrade:  allow multiple -o/-O optio..
 -->
        
-        Allow multiple pg_upgrade
-        -o/-O options to be appended (Bruce Momjian)
+        Support multiple pg_upgrade
+        -o/-O options,
+        concatenating their values (Bruce Momjian)
        
       
 
@@ -2415,17 +2520,6 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 
       
 
-       
-        Document the use of rsync for standby server
-        upgrades using pg_upgrade (Stephen Frost,
-        Bruce Momjian)
-       
-      
-
-      
-
        
@@ -2480,7 +2574,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        
 
        
-        This is controlled by new --latency-limit option.
+        This is controlled by a new --latency-limit option.
        
       
 
@@ -2497,11 +2591,12 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
       
 
        
         Allow pgbench's \set command to handle
-        multi-operator expressions (Robert Haas, Fabien Coelho)
+        arithmetic expressions containing more than one operator, and add
+        % (modulo) to the set of operators it supports
+        (Robert Haas, Fabien Coelho)
        
       
 
@@ -2698,8 +2793,8 @@ FIXME: Improve description, link
 -->
        
         Allow higher-precision time stamp resolution on 
-        class="osname">Windows 8 or Windows
-        Server 2012 and later Windows systems (Craig Ringer)
+        class="osname">Windows 8, Windows
+        Server 2012, and later Windows systems (Craig Ringer)
        
       
 




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