Further 9.0 release notes updates.

Josh Berkus

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
index 5bca6f7896a86003918e68b11269a86f6e2ab8cc..980d59870c9ab7f7683ffa23c576ee1317a92c9f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   Release 9.0
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
       The DO statement permits
       ad-hoc or anonymous code blocks.  Functions can now be called using named
       parameters.  PL/pgSQL is now installed by default, and PL/Perl and PL/Python
-      have been enhanced in several ways.
+      have been enhanced in several ways, including support for Python3.
      
     
 
@@ -290,7 +290,6 @@
    PL/pgSQL Variables
    
 
-
     
      
       Have PL/pgSQL throw an error if a variable name conflicts with a
@@ -333,10 +332,32 @@
    
 
   
+
+  
+   Other Incompatibilities
+   
+    
+      
+       Remove support for platforms that don't have a working 64-bit
+       integer data types (Tom Lane)
+      
+
+      
+       It is believed all supported platforms have working 64-bit integer
+       data types.
+      
+     
+    
+   
  
 
  
   Changes
+   
+    Version 9.0 has an unprecedented number of new major features, 
+    and over 200 enhancements, improvements, new commands,
+    new functions, and other changes.
+   
 
   
    Server
@@ -573,6 +594,11 @@
 
    
     Authentication
+    
+     Version 9.0 further extends PostgreSQL's support for multiple
+     authentication methods, including RADIUS and improved LDAP support.
+    
+
     
 
      
@@ -624,6 +650,12 @@
 
    
     Monitoring
+    
+     With increased use of PostgreSQL in high-end production systems, 
+     users need increased monitoring.  PostgresSQL 9.0 continues to add
+     more ways to monitor PostgreSQL applications.
+    
+
     
 
      
@@ -635,8 +667,8 @@
       
 
       
-        This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic 
-        and troubleshoot problems by source application.
+       This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic 
+       and troubleshoot problems by source application.
       
      
 
@@ -646,6 +678,12 @@
        linkend="guc-log-line-prefix">log_line_prefix
        (Guillaume Smet)
       
+
+      
+       This allows users to compile statistics on errors and messages
+       by type.
+      
+
      
 
      
@@ -653,6 +691,11 @@
        Write to the Windows event log in UTF16 encoding
        (Itagaki Takahiro)
       
+
+      
+       Now there is true multi-lingual support for PostgreSQL log messages
+       on Windows.
+      
      
 
     
@@ -820,9 +863,9 @@
      
 
      
-      This allows operations that do not return a result, like
-      SELECT INTO, to return a count of the number of rows
-      processed.
+      For drivers which support this feature, this saves an entire 
+      round-trip to the client, allowing result counts and pagination
+      to be calculated without a second COUNT query.
      
 
      
@@ -1263,7 +1306,10 @@
       
 
       
-       DETAILS?
+       This feature supports GiST indexing of point operations on polygons, 
+       circles, and other points, such as "point is in polygon".  Previously
+       indexing only worked for bounding boxes.  This should make many 
+       PostGIS queries faster.
       
      
 
@@ -2653,6 +2699,20 @@
     Binary Upgrade Support
     
 
+    
+     
+      Add /contrib/pg_upgrade
+      to support in-place upgrades (Bruce)
+     
+
+     
+      This avoids the requirement of dumping/reloading the database when
+      upgrading to a new major release of PostgreSQL and speeds up offline
+      upgrades by orders of magnitude. It supports upgrades to 9.0
+      from PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4.
+     
+    
+
      
       
        Add support for preservation of all 
@@ -2694,19 +2754,6 @@
    Contrib
    
 
-    
-     
-      Add /contrib/pg_upgrade
-      to support in-place upgrades (Bruce)
-     
-
-     
-      This avoids the requirement of dumping/reloading the database when
-      upgrading to a new major release of PostgreSQL.  It supports upgrades
-      from PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4.
-     
-    
-
     
      
       Add multi-threaded option (-j) to 
@@ -2749,7 +2796,9 @@
      
 
      
-      This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens.
+      This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens, and 
+      makes full-text searches over multiple languages much 
+      easier.
      
     
 
@@ -2775,7 +2824,8 @@
      
 
      
-      New functions and operators were also added.
+      New functions and operators were also added.  These improvements
+      make HStore a full-functional key-value store embedded in PostgreSQL.