- linkend="catalog-pg-sequence">pg_sequence>>
+ linkend="catalog-pg-sequence">pg_sequencestructname>>
system catalog (Peter Eisentraut)
A sequence relation now stores only the fields that can be modified
- by nextval(), that
- is last_value>, log_cnt>,
- and is_called. Other sequence properties, such as
+ by nextval()function>, that
+ is last_valuestructfield>, log_cnt>,
+ and is_calledstructfield>. Other sequence properties, such as
the starting value and increment, are kept in a corresponding row of
- the pg_sequence catalog.
- ALTER SEQUENCE updates are now fully transactional,
+ the pg_sequencestructname> catalog.
+ ALTER SEQUENCEcommand> updates are now fully transactional,
implying that the sequence is locked until commit.
- The nextval()> and setval()> functions
+ The nextval()function> and setval()> functions
remain nontransactional.
The main incompatibility introduced by this change is that selecting
from a sequence relation now returns only the three fields named
above. To obtain the sequence's other properties, applications must
- look into pg_sequence. The new system
- view pg_sequences>>
+ look into pg_sequencestructname>. The new system
+ view pg_sequencesstructname>>
can also be used for this purpose; it provides column names that are
more compatible with existing code.
- The output of
psql>'s \d> command for a + The output of
psqlapplication>'s \d> command for a sequence has been redesigned, too.
2017-01-04 [9a4d51077] Make wal streaming the default mode for pg_basebackup
-->
-
WAL needed to restore the backup by default (Magnus + Make
application> stream the +
WALacronym> needed to restore the backup by default (Magnus Hagander)
- This changes
pg_basebackup's - -X>/ --wal-method default to stream>.
- An option value none has been added to reproduce the old
- behavior. The
pg_basebackup> option -x> - has been removed (instead, use -X fetch).
+ This changes
pg_basebackupapplication>'s + -Xoption>/ --wal-method default to stream>.
+ An option value noneliteral> has been added to reproduce the old
+ behavior. The
pg_basebackupapplication> option -x> + has been removed (instead, use -X fetchliteral>).
2017-01-14 [05cd12ed5] pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions
-->
+ Make all
application> actions wait for completion by default (Peter Eisentraut)
- Previously some
pg_ctl actions didn't wait for - completion, and required the use of -w to do so.
+ Previously some
pg_ctlapplication> actions didn't wait for + completion, and required the use of -woption> to do so.
-->
Change the default value of the
- server parameter from pg_log> to log>
+ server parameter from pg_logfilename> to log>
(Andreas Karlsson)
This replaces the hardcoded, undocumented file
- name dh1024.pem>. Note that dh1024.pem> is
+ name dh1024.pemfilename>. Note that dh1024.pem> is
no longer examined by default; you must set this option if you want
to use custom DH parameters.
The server parameter
- no longer supports off> or plain>.
- The UNENCRYPTED option is no longer supported in
- CREATE/ALTER USER ... PASSWORD. Similarly, the
- --unencrypted option has been removed
- from
createuser. Unencrypted passwords migrated from + no longer supports offliteral> or plain>.
+ The UNENCRYPTEDliteral> option is no longer supported in
+ CREATE/ALTER USER ... PASSWORDcommand>. Similarly, the
+ --unencryptedoption> option has been removed
+ from
createuserapplication>. Unencrypted passwords migrated from older versions will be stored encrypted in this release. The default
- setting for password_encryption is still
- md5.
+ setting for password_encryptionvarname> is still
+ md5literal>.
- These replace min_parallel_relation_size, which was
+ These replace min_parallel_relation_sizevarname>, which was
found to be too generic.
2016-12-23 [e13486eba] Remove sql_inheritance GUC.
-->
- Remove sql_inheritance server parameter (Robert Haas)
+ Remove sql_inheritancevarname> server parameter (Robert Haas)
Changing this setting from the default value caused queries referencing
- parent tables to not include child tables. The
SQL + parent tables to not include child tables. The
SQLacronym> standard requires them to be included, however, and this has been the
- default since
PostgreSQL 7.1. + default since
PostgreSQLproductname> 7.1.
This feature requires a backwards-incompatible change to the handling
of arrays of composite types in PL/Python. Previously, you could
return an array of composite values by writing, e.g., [[col1,
- col2], [col1, col2]]; but now that is interpreted as a
+ col2], [col1, col2]]literal>; but now that is interpreted as a
two-dimensional array. Composite types in arrays must now be written
as Python tuples, not lists, to resolve the ambiguity; that is,
- write [(col1, col2), (col1, col2)] instead.
+ write [(col1, col2), (col1, col2)]literal> instead.
2017-02-27 [817f2a586] Remove PL/Tcl's "module" facility.
-->
- Remove PL/Tcl's module auto-loading facility (Tom Lane)
+ Remove PL/Tcl's modulequote> auto-loading facility (Tom Lane)
2016-10-12 [64f3524e2] Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8
-->
- Remove
pg_dump>/pg_dumpall> support + Remove
pg_dumpapplication>/pg_dumpall> support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers (Tom Lane)
Users needing to dump from pre-8.0 servers will need to use dump
- programs from
PostgreSQL 9.6 or earlier. The + programs from
PostgreSQLproductname> 9.6 or earlier. The resulting output should still load successfully into newer servers.
- This removes configure's --disable-integer-datetimes
+ This removes configure's --disable-integer-datetimesoption>
option. Floating-point timestamps have few advantages and have not
- been the default since
PostgreSQL 8.3. + been the default since
PostgreSQLproductname> 8.3.
This protocol hasn't had client support
+ since
PostgreSQLproductname> 6.3.
2017-02-13 [7ada2d31f] Remove contrib/tsearch2.
-->
- Remove contrib/tsearch2 module (Robert Haas)
+ Remove contrib/tsearch2filename> module (Robert Haas)
This module provided compatibility with the version of full text
- search that shipped in pre-8.3
PostgreSQL releases. + search that shipped in pre-8.3
PostgreSQLproductname> releases.
2017-03-23 [50c956add] Remove createlang and droplang
-->
- Remove
createlang> and droplang> + Remove
createlangapplication> and droplang> command-line applications (Peter Eisentraut)
- These had been deprecated since
PostgreSQL 9.1. - Instead, use CREATE EXTENSION and DROP
- EXTENSION directly.
+ These had been deprecated since
PostgreSQLproductname> 9.1. + Instead, use CREATE EXTENSIONcommand> and DROP
+ EXTENSIONcommand> directly.
2016-08-23 [77e290682] Create an SP-GiST opclass for inet/cidr.
-->
- Add
SP-GiST> index support for INET> and - CIDR data types (Emre Hasegeli)
+ Add
SP-GiSTacronym> index support for INET> and + CIDRtype> data types (Emre Hasegeli)
2017-04-01 [7526e1022] BRIN auto-summarization
-->
- Add option to allow
BRIN index summarization to happen + Add option to allow
BRINacronym> index summarization to happen more aggressively (Álvaro Herrera)
A new CREATE
- INDEX>> option enables auto-summarization of the
- previous
BRIN page range when a new page + INDEXcommand>> option enables auto-summarization of the
+ previous
BRINacronym> page range when a new page range is created.
2017-04-01 [c655899ba] BRIN de-summarization
-->
- Add functions to remove and re-add
BRIN - summarization for
BRIN index ranges (Álvaro + Add functions to remove and re-add
BRINacronym> + summarization for
BRINacronym> index ranges (Álvaro Herrera)
- The new
SQL function
- linkend="functions-admin-index-table">brin_summarize_range()>>
- updates
BRIN index summarization for a specified - range and brin_desummarize_range() removes it.
+ The new
SQLacronym> function
+ linkend="functions-admin-index-table">brin_summarize_range()function>>
+ updates
BRINacronym> index summarization for a specified + range and brin_desummarize_range()function> removes it.
This is helpful to update summarization of a range that is now
- smaller due to UPDATE>s and DELETE>s.
+ smaller due to UPDATEcommand>s and DELETE>s.
2017-04-06 [7e534adcd] Fix BRIN cost estimation
-->
- Improve accuracy in determining if a
BRIN index scan + Improve accuracy in determining if a
BRINacronym> index scan is beneficial (David Rowley, Emre Hasegeli)
2016-09-09 [b1328d78f] Invent PageIndexTupleOverwrite, and teach BRIN and GiST
-->
- Allow faster
GiST inserts and updates by reusing + Allow faster
GiSTacronym> inserts and updates by reusing index space more efficiently (Andrey Borodin)
2017-03-23 [218f51584] Reduce page locking in GIN vacuum
-->
- Reduce page locking during vacuuming of
GIN indexes + Reduce page locking during vacuuming of
GINacronym> indexes (Andrey Borodin)
New commands are
- linkend="SQL-CREATESTATISTICS">CREATE STATISTICS>>,
- ALTER STATISTICS>>, and
- DROP STATISTICS>>.
+ linkend="SQL-CREATESTATISTICS">CREATE STATISTICScommand>>,
+ ALTER STATISTICScommand>>, and
+ DROP STATISTICScommand>>.
This feature is helpful in estimating query memory usage and when
combining the statistics from individual columns.
-->
Speed up aggregate functions that calculate a running sum
- using numeric-type arithmetic, including some variants
- of SUM()>, AVG()>,
- and STDDEV() (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ using numerictype>-type arithmetic, including some variants
+ of SUM()function>, AVG()>,
+ and STDDEV()function> (Heikki Linnakangas)
-->
Allow explicit control
- over EXPLAIN>>'s display
+ over EXPLAINcommand>>'s display
of planning and execution time (Ashutosh Bapat)
By default planning and execution time are displayed by
- EXPLAIN ANALYZE and are not displayed in other cases.
- The new EXPLAIN> option SUMMARY> allows
+ EXPLAIN ANALYZEcommand> and are not displayed in other cases.
+ The new EXPLAINcommand> option SUMMARY> allows
explicit control of this.
- New roles pg_monitor>, pg_read_all_settings>,
- pg_read_all_stats>, and pg_stat_scan_tables>
+ New roles pg_monitorliteral>, pg_read_all_settings>,
+ pg_read_all_statsliteral>, and pg_stat_scan_tables>
allow simplified permission configuration.
Properly update the statistics collector during
linkend="SQL-REFRESHMATERIALIZEDVIEW">REFRESH MATERIALIZED
- VIEW>> (Jim Mlodgenski)
+ VIEWcommand>> (Jim Mlodgenski)
2017-03-16 [befd73c50] Add pg_ls_logdir() and pg_ls_waldir() functions.
-->
- Add functions to return the log and
WAL directory + Add functions to return the log and
WALacronym> directory contents (Dave Page)
The new functions
- are pg_ls_logdir()>>
- and pg_ls_waldir()>>
+ are pg_ls_logdir()function>>
+ and pg_ls_waldir()function>>
and can be executed by non-superusers with the proper
permissions.
-->
Add function
- linkend="functions-info-session-table">pg_current_logfile()>>
+ linkend="functions-info-session-table">pg_current_logfile()function>>
to read logging collector's current stderr and csvlog output file names
(Gilles Darold)
- These are now DEBUG1-level messages.
+ These are now DEBUG1literal>-level messages.
-
<link linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</></link>
+
<link linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</<span class="marked">structname</span>></link>
2017-03-18 [249cf070e] Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync op
-->
- Add pg_stat_activity reporting of low-level wait
+ Add pg_stat_activitystructname> reporting of low-level wait
states (Michael Paquier, Robert Haas, Rushabh Lathia)
-->
Show auxiliary processes, background workers, and walsender
- processes in pg_stat_activity (Kuntal Ghosh,
+ processes in pg_stat_activitystructname> (Kuntal Ghosh,
Michael Paquier)
This simplifies monitoring. A new
- column backend_type identifies the process type.
+ column backend_typestructfield> identifies the process type.
2017-02-22 [4c728f382] Pass the source text for a parallel query to the workers
-->
- Allow pg_stat_activity to show the SQL query
+ Allow pg_stat_activitystructname> to show the SQL query
being executed by parallel workers (Rafia Sabih)
-->
Rename
- pg_stat_activity>.wait_event_type>
- values LWLockTranche and
- LWLockNamed> to LWLock> (Robert Haas)
+ pg_stat_activitystructname>.wait_event_type>
+ values LWLockTrancheliteral> and
+ LWLockNamedliteral> to LWLock> (Robert Haas)
-
<acronym>Authentication</>
+
<acronym>Authentication</<span class="marked">acronym</span>>
2017-04-18 [c727f120f] Rename "scram" to "scram-sha-256" in pg_hba.conf and pas
-->
- Add SCRAM-SHA-256
+ Add SCRAM-SHA-256link>
support for password negotiation and storage (Michael Paquier,
Heikki Linnakangas)
- This provides better security than the existing md5
+ This provides better security than the existing md5literal>
negotiation and storage method.
-->
Change the server parameter
- from boolean> to enum> (Michael Paquier)
+ from booleantype> to enum> (Michael Paquier)
-->
Add view
- linkend="view-pg-hba-file-rules">pg_hba_file_rules>>
- to display the contents of pg_hba.conf (Haribabu
+ linkend="view-pg-hba-file-rules">pg_hba_file_rulesstructname>>
+ to display the contents of pg_hba.conffilename> (Haribabu
Kommi)
2017-03-22 [6b76f1bb5] Support multiple RADIUS servers
-->
- Support multiple
RADIUS servers (Magnus Hagander) + Support multiple
RADIUSacronym> servers (Magnus Hagander)
- All the
RADIUS related parameters are now plural and + All the
RADIUSacronym> related parameters are now plural and support a comma-separated list of servers.
2017-01-04 [6667d9a6d] Re-allow SSL passphrase prompt at server start, but not
-->
- Allow
SSL configuration to be updated during + Allow
SSLacronym> configuration to be updated during configuration reload (Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
- This allows
SSL to be reconfigured without a server - restart, by using pg_ctl reload, SELECT
- pg_reload_conf()>, or sending a SIGHUP> signal.
- However, reloading the
SSL configuration does not work - if the server's
SSL key requires a passphrase, as there + This allows
SSLacronym> to be reconfigured without a server + restart, by using pg_ctl reloadcommand>, SELECT
+ pg_reload_conf()command>, or sending a SIGHUP> signal.
+ However, reloading the
SSLacronym> configuration does not work + if the server's
SSLacronym> key requires a passphrase, as there is no way to re-prompt for the passphrase. The original
configuration will apply for the life of the postmaster in that
case.
-
<link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</<span class="marked">> (<acronym>WAL</</span>>)
+
<link linkend="wal">Write-Ahead Log</<span class="marked">link> (<acronym>WAL</acronym</span>>)
2016-12-22 [6ef2eba3f] Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems.
-->
- Prevent unnecessary checkpoints and
WAL archiving on + Prevent unnecessary checkpoints and
WALacronym> archiving on otherwise-idle systems (Michael Paquier)
-->
Add server parameter
- to add details to
WAL that can be sanity-checked on + to add details to
WALacronym> that can be sanity-checked on the standby (Kuntal Ghosh, Robert Haas)
2017-04-05 [00b6b6feb] Allow -\-with-wal-segsize=n up to n=1024MB
-->
- Increase the maximum configurable
WAL segment size + Increase the maximum configurable
WALacronym> segment size to one gigabyte (Beena Emerson)
- A larger
WAL segment size allows for fewer + A larger
WALacronym> segment size allows for fewer invocations and fewer
+
WALacronym> files to manage.
-->
Add the ability to logically
- replicate tables to standby servers (Petr Jelinek)
+ replicatelink> tables to standby servers (Petr Jelinek)
Logical replication allows more flexibility than physical
replication does, including replication between different major
- versions of
PostgreSQL and selective + versions of
PostgreSQLproductname> and selective replication.
Previously the server always waited for the active standbys that
- appeared first in synchronous_standby_names. The new
- synchronous_standby_names> keyword ANY> allows
+ appeared first in synchronous_standby_namesvarname>. The new
+ synchronous_standby_namesvarname> keyword ANY> allows
waiting for any number of standbys irrespective of their ordering.
This is known as quorum commit.
-->
Enable replication from localhost connections by default in
- pg_hba.conf>>
+ pg_hba.conffilename>>
(Michael Paquier)
- Previously pg_hba.conf's replication connection
+ Previously pg_hba.conffilename>'s replication connection
lines were commented out by default. This is particularly useful for
-->
Add columns to
- linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table">pg_stat_replication>>
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table">pg_stat_replicationstructname>>
to report replication delay times (Thomas Munro)
- The new columns are write_lag,
- flush_lag>, and replay_lag>.
+ The new columns are write_lagstructfield>,
+ flush_lagstructfield>, and replay_lag>.
-->
Allow specification of the recovery stopping point by Log Sequence
- recovery.conf>>
+ Number (
LSNacronym>) in + recovery.conffilename>>
(Michael Paquier)
-->
Allow users to disable
- linkend="functions-admin">pg_stop_backup()>>'s
- waiting for all
WAL to be archived (David Steele) + linkend="functions-admin">pg_stop_backup()function>>'s
+ waiting for all
WALacronym> to be archived (David Steele)
- An optional second argument to pg_stop_backup()
+ An optional second argument to pg_stop_backup()function>
controls that behavior.
-->
Allow creation of
- linkend="functions-replication-table">temporary replication slots
+ linkend="functions-replication-table">temporary replication slotslink>
(Petr Jelinek)
-->
Add
- linkend="functions-xml-processing-xmltable">XMLTABLE>>
- function that converts XML-formatted data into a row set
+ linkend="functions-xml-processing-xmltable">XMLTABLEfunction>>
+ function that converts XMLtype>-formatted data into a row set
(Pavel Stehule, Álvaro Herrera)
-->
Allow standard row constructor syntax in UPDATE ... SET
- (column_list>) = row_constructor>
+ (column_listreplaceable>) = row_constructor>
(Tom Lane)
- The row_constructor can now begin with the
- keyword ROW; previously that had to be omitted. Also,
- an occurrence of table_name.*
- within the row_constructor is now expanded into
+ The row_constructorreplaceable> can now begin with the
+ keyword ROWliteral>; previously that had to be omitted. Also,
+ an occurrence of table_namereplaceable>.*
+ within the row_constructorreplaceable> is now expanded into
multiple columns, as in other uses
- of row_constructors.
+ of row_constructorreplaceable>s.
-->
Fix regular expressions' character class handling for large character
- codes, particularly Unicode characters above U+7FF
+ codes, particularly Unicode characters above U+7FFliteral>
(Tom Lane)
Previously, such characters were never recognized as belonging to
- locale-dependent character classes such as [[:alpha:]].
+ locale-dependent character classes such as [[:alpha:]]literal>.
-->
Add table partitioning
- syntax that automatically creates partition constraints and
+ syntaxlink> that automatically creates partition constraints and
handles routing of tuple insertions and updates (Amit Langote)
2017-03-31 [597027163] Add transition table support to plpgsql.
-->
- Add AFTER> trigger>
+ Add AFTERliteral> trigger>
transition tables to record changed rows (Kevin Grittner, Thomas
Munro)
-->
Allow restrictive row-level
- security policies (Stephen Frost)
+ security policieslink> (Stephen Frost)
-->
When creating a foreign-key constraint, check
- for REFERENCES permission on only the referenced table
+ for REFERENCESliteral> permission on only the referenced table
(Tom Lane)
- Previously REFERENCES permission on the referencing
+ Previously REFERENCESliteral> permission on the referencing
table was also required. This appears to have stemmed from a
misreading of the SQL standard. Since creating a foreign key (or
any other type of) constraint requires ownership privilege on the
- constrained table, additionally requiring REFERENCES
+ constrained table, additionally requiring REFERENCESliteral>
permission seems rather pointless.
-->
Allow default
- permissions on schemas (Matheus Oliveira)
+ permissionslink> on schemas (Matheus Oliveira)
- This is done using the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command.
+ This is done using the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGESliteral> command.
-->
Add CREATE SEQUENCE
- AS>> command to create a sequence matching an integer data type
+ AScommand>> command to create a sequence matching an integer data type
(Peter Eisentraut)
2016-11-10 [279c439c7] Support "COPY view FROM" for views with INSTEAD OF INSER
-->
- Allow COPY view
- FROM source>> on views with INSTEAD
- INSERT triggers (Haribabu Kommi)
+ Allow COPY viewreplaceable>
+ FROM sourcereplaceable>> on views with INSTEAD
+ INSERTliteral> triggers (Haribabu Kommi)
- The triggers are fed the data rows read by COPY.
+ The triggers are fed the data rows read by COPYcommand>.
-->
Allow the specification of a function name without arguments in
-
DDL commands, if it is unique (Peter Eisentraut) +
DDLacronym> commands, if it is unique (Peter Eisentraut)
For example, allow DROP
- FUNCTION>> on a function name without arguments if there
+ FUNCTIONcommand>> on a function name without arguments if there
is only one function with that name. This behavior is required by the
-->
Allow multiple functions, operators, and aggregates to be dropped
- with a single DROP command (Peter Eisentraut)
+ with a single DROPcommand> command (Peter Eisentraut)
2017-03-20 [b6fb534f1] Add IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE SERVER and CREATE USER MAPP
-->
- Support IF NOT EXISTS
- in CREATE SERVER>>,
- CREATE USER MAPPING>>,
- and CREATE COLLATION>>
+ Support IF NOT EXISTSliteral>
+ in CREATE SERVERcommand>>,
+ CREATE USER MAPPINGcommand>>,
+ and CREATE COLLATIONcommand>>
(Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Eisentraut)
2017-03-03 [9eb344faf] Allow vacuums to report oldestxmin
-->
- Make VACUUM VERBOSE>> report
+ Make VACUUM VERBOSEcommand>> report
the number of skipped frozen pages and oldest xmin (Masahiko
Sawada, Simon Riggs)
2017-01-23 [7e26e02ee] Prefetch blocks during lazy vacuum's truncation scan
-->
- Improve speed of VACUUM's removal of trailing empty
+ Improve speed of VACUUMcommand>'s removal of trailing empty
heap pages (Claudio Freire, Álvaro Herrera)
2017-03-31 [e306df7f9] Full Text Search support for JSON and JSONB
-->
- Add full text search support for JSON> and JSONB>
+ Add full text search support for JSONtype> and JSONB>
(Dmitry Dolgov)
- The functions ts_headline() and
- to_tsvector() can now be used on these data types.
+ The functions ts_headline()function> and
+ to_tsvector()function> can now be used on these data types.
2017-03-15 [c7a9fa399] Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8
-->
- Add support for
EUI-64> MAC> addresses, as a - new data type macaddr8>>
+ Add support for
EUI-64acronym> MAC> addresses, as a + new data type macaddr8type>>
(Haribabu Kommi)
This complements the existing support
- for
EUI-48> MAC> addresses - (type macaddr).
+ for
EUI-48acronym> MAC> addresses + (type macaddrtype>).
2017-04-06 [321732705] Identity columns
-->
- Add identity columns for
+ Add identity columnslink> for
assigning a numeric value to columns on insert (Peter Eisentraut)
- These are similar to SERIAL columns, but are
-
SQL standard compliant. + These are similar to SERIALtype> columns, but are
+
SQLacronym> standard compliant.
2016-09-07 [0ab9c56d0] Support renaming an existing value of an enum type.
-->
- Allow ENUM>> values to be
+ Allow ENUMtype>> values to be
renamed (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
This uses the syntax ALTER
- TYPE ... RENAME VALUE>>.
+ TYPE ... RENAME VALUEcommand>>.
-->
Properly treat array pseudotypes
- (
anyarray) as arrays in
- linkend="functions-json-creation-table">to_json()>>
- and to_jsonb() (Andrew Dunstan)
+ (
anyarraytype>) as arrays in
+ linkend="functions-json-creation-table">to_json()function>>
+ and to_jsonb()function> (Andrew Dunstan)
- Previously columns declared as anyarray (particularly those
- in the pg_stats> view) were converted to JSON>
+ Previously columns declared as anyarraytype> (particularly those
+ in the pg_statsstructname> view) were converted to JSON>
strings rather than arrays.
-->
Add operators for multiplication and division
- of money values
- with int8 values (Peter Eisentraut)
+ of moneytype> values
+ with int8type> values (Peter Eisentraut)
- Previously such cases would result in converting the int8
- values to float8 and then using
- the money>-and-float8> operators. The new behavior
+ Previously such cases would result in converting the int8type>
+ values to float8type> and then using
+ the moneytype>-and-float8> operators. The new behavior
avoids possible precision loss. But note that division
- of money> by int8> now truncates the quotient, like
+ of moneytype> by int8> now truncates the quotient, like
other integer-division cases, while the previous behavior would have
rounded.
2016-09-14 [656df624c] Add overflow checks to money type input function
-->
- Check for overflow in the money type's input function
+ Check for overflow in the moneytype> type's input function
(Peter Eisentraut)
-->
Add simplified
- linkend="functions-posix-regexp">regexp_match()>>
+ linkend="functions-posix-regexp">regexp_match()function>>
function (Emre Hasegeli)
- This is similar to regexp_matches(), but it only
+ This is similar to regexp_matches()function>, but it only
returns results from the first match so it does not need to return a
set, making it easier to use for simple cases.
2017-01-18 [d00ca333c] Implement array version of jsonb_delete and operator
-->
- Add a version of
jsonb's
- linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">delete operator that takes
+ Add a version of
jsonbtype>'s
+ linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">delete operatorlink> that takes
an array of keys to delete (Magnus Hagander)
2017-04-06 [cf35346e8] Make json_populate_record and friends operate recursivel
-->
- Make json_populate_record()>>
+ Make json_populate_record()function>>
and related functions process JSON arrays and objects recursively
(Nikita Glukhov)
properly converted from JSON arrays, and composite-type fields are
properly converted from JSON objects. Previously, such cases would
fail because the text representation of the JSON value would be fed
- to array_in()> or record_in()>, and its
+ to array_in()function> or record_in()>, and its
syntax would not match what those input functions expect.
-->
Add function
- linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_current_if_assigned()>>
- to return the current transaction ID or NULL if no
+ linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_current_if_assigned()function>>
+ to return the current transaction ID or NULLliteral> if no
transaction ID has been assigned (Craig Ringer)
This is different from
- linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_current()>>,
+ linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_current()function>>,
which always returns a transaction ID, assigning one if necessary.
Unlike that function, this function can be run on standby servers.
-->
Add function
- linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_status()>>
+ linkend="functions-txid-snapshot">txid_status()function>>
to check if a transaction was committed (Craig Ringer)
-->
Allow
- linkend="functions-formatting-table">make_date()>
- to interpret negative years as
BC years (Álvaro + linkend="functions-datetime-table">make_date() >
+ to interpret negative years as
BCacronym> years (Álvaro Herrera)
2016-09-28 [d3cd36a13] Make to_timestamp() and to_date() range-check fields of
-->
- Make to_timestamp() and to_date() reject
+ Make
+ linkend="functions-formatting-table">to_timestamp()
+ and to_date() reject
out-of-range input fields (Artur Zakirov)
For example,
- previously to_date('2009-06-40','YYYY-MM-DD') was
- accepted and returned 2009-07-10. It will now generate
+ previously to_date('2009-06-40','YYYY-MM-DD')literal> was
+ accepted and returned 2009-07-10literal>. It will now generate
an error.
2017-03-27 [70ec3f1f8] PL/Python: Add cursor and execute methods to plan object
-->
- Allow PL/Python's cursor()> and execute()>
+ Allow PL/Python's cursor()function> and execute()>
functions to be called as methods of their plan-object arguments
(Peter Eisentraut)
2016-12-13 [55caaaeba] Improve handling of array elements as getdiag_targets an
-->
- Allow PL/pgSQL's GET DIAGNOSTICS statement to retrieve
+ Allow PL/pgSQL's GET DIAGNOSTICScommand> statement to retrieve
values into array elements (Tom Lane)
-
<link linkend="pltcl">PL/Tcl</>
+
<link linkend="pltcl">PL/Tcl</<span class="marked">link</span>>
-->
Allow specification of multiple
- host names or addresses in libpq connection strings and URIs
+ host names or addresseslink> in libpq connection strings and URIs
(Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas)
-->
Allow libpq connection strings and URIs to request a
- linkend="libpq-connect-target-session-attrs">read/write host,
+ linkend="libpq-connect-target-session-attrs">read/write hostlink>,
that is a master server rather than a standby server
(Victor Wagner, Mithun Cy)
This is useful when multiple host names are
specified. It is controlled by libpq connection parameter
- target_session_attrs.
+ target_session_attrsoption>.
2017-01-24 [ba005f193] Allow password file name to be specified as a libpq conn
-->
- Allow the password file name
+ Allow the password file namelink>
to be specified as a libpq connection parameter (Julian Markwort)
-->
Add function
- linkend="libpq-pqencryptpasswordconn">PQencryptPasswordConn()>>
+ linkend="libpq-pqencryptpasswordconn">PQencryptPasswordConn()function>>
to allow creation of more types of encrypted passwords on the
client side (Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas)
- Previously only MD5-encrypted passwords could be created
+ Previously only MD5literal>-encrypted passwords could be created
using
- linkend="libpq-pqencryptpassword">PQencryptPassword()>>.
+ linkend="libpq-pqencryptpassword">PQencryptPassword()function>>.
This new function can also create
- linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">SCRAM-SHA-256>>-encrypted
+ linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf">SCRAM-SHA-256literal>>-encrypted
passwords.
2016-08-16 [a7b5573d6] Remove separate version numbering for ecpg preprocessor.
-->
- Change
ecpg preprocessor version from 4.12 to 10 + Change
ecpgapplication> preprocessor version from 4.12 to 10 (Tom Lane)
- Henceforth the
ecpg version will match - the
PostgreSQL distribution version number. + Henceforth the
ecpgapplication> version will match + the
PostgreSQLproductname> distribution version number.
2017-04-02 [68dba97a4] Document psql's behavior of recalling the previously exe
-->
- Add conditional branch support to
psql (Corey + Add conditional branch support to
psqlapplication> (Corey Huinker)
- meta-commands \if>, \elif, \else>,
- and \endif. This is primarily helpful for scripting.
+ This feature adds
psqlapplication> + meta-commands \ifcommand>, \elif , \else>,
+ and \endifcommand>. This is primarily helpful for scripting.
2017-03-07 [b2678efd4] psql: Add \gx command
-->
- Add
psql> \gx> meta-command to execute - (\g>) a query in expanded mode (\x>)
+ Add
psqlapplication> \gx> meta-command to execute + (\gcommand>) a query in expanded mode (\x>)
(Christoph Berg)
2017-04-01 [f833c847b] Allow psql variable substitution to occur in backtick co
-->
- Expand
psql variable references in + Expand
psqlapplication> variable references in backtick-executed strings (Tom Lane)
- This is particularly useful in the new
psql + This is particularly useful in the new
psqlapplication> conditional branch commands.
2017-02-02 [fd6cd6980] Clean up psql's behavior for a few more control variable
-->
- Prevent
psql's special variables from being set to + Prevent
psqlapplication>'s special variables from being set to invalid values (Daniel Vérité, Tom Lane)
- Previously, setting one of
psql's special variables + Previously, setting one of
psqlapplication>'s special variables to an invalid value silently resulted in the default behavior.
- \set on a special variable now fails if the proposed
- new value is invalid. As a special exception, \set
+ \setcommand> on a special variable now fails if the proposed
+ new value is invalid. As a special exception, \setcommand>
with an empty or omitted new value, on a boolean-valued special
variable, still has the effect of setting the variable
- to on; but now it actually acquires that value rather
- than an empty string. \unset on a special variable now
+ to onliteral>; but now it actually acquires that value rather
+ than an empty string. \unsetcommand> on a special variable now
explicitly sets the variable to its default value, which is also
the value it acquires at startup. In sum, a control variable now
always has a displayable value that reflects
- what
psql is actually doing. + what
psqlapplication> is actually doing.
2017-09-06 [a6c678f01] Add psql variables showing server version and psql versi
-->
- Add variables showing server version and
psql version + Add variables showing server version and
psqlapplication> version (Fabien Coelho)
2016-11-03 [a0f357e57] psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dD
-->
- Improve
psql>'s \d> (display relation) - and \dD (display domain) commands to show collation,
+ Improve
psqlapplication>'s \d> (display relation) + and \dDcommand> (display domain) commands to show collation,
nullable, and default properties in separate columns (Peter
Eisentraut)
- Previously they were shown in a single Modifiers column.
+ Previously they were shown in a single Modifiersquote> column.
2017-07-27 [77cb4a1d6] Standardize describe.c's behavior for no-matching-object
-->
- Make the various \d commands handle no-matching-object
+ Make the various \dcommand> commands handle no-matching-object
cases more consistently (Daniel Gustafsson)
2017-03-16 [d7d77f382] psql: Add completion for \help DROP|ALTER
-->
- Improve
psql's tab completion (Jeff Janes, + Improve
psqlapplication>'s tab completion (Jeff Janes, Ian Barwick, Andreas Karlsson, Sehrope Sarkuni, Thomas Munro,
Kevin Grittner, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
2016-11-09 [41124a91e] pgbench: Allow the transaction log file prefix to be cha
-->
- Add
pgbench> option --log-prefix> to + Add
pgbenchapplication> option --log-prefix> to control the log file prefix (Masahiko Sawada)
2017-01-20 [cdc2a7047] Allow backslash line continuations in pgbench's meta com
-->
- Allow
pgbench's meta-commands to span multiple + Allow
pgbenchapplication>'s meta-commands to span multiple lines (Fabien Coelho)
2017-08-11 [796818442] Remove pgbench's restriction on placement of -M switch.
-->
- Remove restriction on placement of -M option relative to
+ Remove restriction on placement of -Moption> option relative to
other command line options (Tom Lane)
-->
Add
- linkend="app-pgreceivewal">
pg_receivewal>> - option -Z>/ --compress> to specify compression
+ linkend="app-pgreceivewal">
pg_receivewalapplication>> + option -Zoption>/ --compress> to specify compression
(Michael Paquier)
-->
Add
- linkend="app-pgrecvlogical">
pg_recvlogical>> option - --endpos to specify the ending position (Craig Ringer)
+ linkend="app-pgrecvlogical">
pg_recvlogicalapplication>> option + --endposoption> to specify the ending position (Craig Ringer)
- This complements the existing --startpos option.
+ This complements the existing --startposoption> option.
2016-10-19 [5d58c07a4] initdb pg_basebackup: Rename -\-noxxx options to -\-no-x
-->
- options --noclean> and --nosync> to be spelled
- --no-clean> and --no-sync> (Vik Fearing,
+ Rename
initdbapplication>> + options --nocleanoption> and --nosync> to be spelled
+ --no-cleanoption> and --no-sync> (Vik Fearing,
Peter Eisentraut)
-
<link linkend="APP-PGDUMP"><application>pg_dump</<span class="marked">></</span>>,</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <link linkend="APP-PG-DUMPALL"><application>pg_dumpall</<span class="marked">></</span>>,</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <link linkend="APP-PGRESTORE"><application>pg_restore</<span class="marked">></</span>>
+
<link linkend="APP-PGDUMP"><application>pg_dump</<span class="marked">application></link</span>>,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <link linkend="APP-PG-DUMPALL"><application>pg_dumpall</<span class="marked">application></link</span>>,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <link linkend="APP-PGRESTORE"><application>pg_restore</<span class="marked">application></link</span>>
2016-09-20 [46b55e7f8] pg_restore: Add -N option to exclude schemas
-->
- Allow
pg_restore to exclude schemas (Michael Banck) + Allow
pg_restoreapplication> to exclude schemas (Michael Banck)
- This adds a new -N>/ --exclude-schema> option.
+ This adds a new -Noption>/ --exclude-schema> option.
2016-11-29 [4fafa579b] Add -\-no-blobs option to pg_dump
-->
- Add --no-blobs option to
-
pg_dump (Guillaume Lelarge) + Add --no-blobsoption> option to
+
pg_dumpapplication> (Guillaume Lelarge)
2017-03-07 [9a83d56b3] Allow pg_dumpall to dump roles w/o user passwords
-->
- --no-role-passwords to omit role passwords
+ Add
pg_dumpallapplication> option + --no-role-passwordsoption> to omit role passwords
(Robins Tharakan, Simon Riggs)
- This allows use of
pg_dumpall by non-superusers; + This allows use of
pg_dumpallapplication> by non-superusers; without this option, it fails due to inability to read passwords.
2017-03-22 [96a7128b7] Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
-->
- Issue fsync() on the output files generated by
-
pg_dumpall (Michael Paquier) + Issue fsync()function> on the output files generated by
+
pg_dumpapplication> and +
pg_dumpallapplication> (Michael Paquier)
This provides more security that the output is safely stored on
disk before the program exits. This can be disabled with
- the new --no-sync option.
+ the new --no-syncoption> option.
2016-12-21 [ecbdc4c55] Forbid invalid combination of options in pg_basebackup.
-->
- Allow
pg_basebackup to stream write-ahead log in + Allow
pg_basebackupapplication> to stream write-ahead log in tar mode (Magnus Hagander)
- The
WAL will be stored in a separate tar file from + The
WALacronym> will be stored in a separate tar file from the base backup.
2017-01-16 [e7b020f78] Make pg_basebackup use temporary replication slots
-->
- Make
pg_basebackup use temporary replication slots + Make
pg_basebackupapplication> use temporary replication slots (Magnus Hagander)
Temporary replication slots will be used by default when
-
pg_basebackup uses WAL streaming with default +
pg_basebackupapplication> uses WAL streaming with default options.
-->
Be more careful about fsync'ing in all required places
-
pg_receivewal (Michael Paquier) + in
pg_basebackupapplication> and +
pg_receivewalapplication> (Michael Paquier)
2016-10-19 [5d58c07a4] initdb pg_basebackup: Rename -\-noxxx options to -\-no-x
-->
- Add
pg_basebackup> option --no-sync> to + Add
pg_basebackupapplication> option --no-sync> to disable fsync (Michael Paquier)
2016-09-28 [6ad8ac602] Exclude additional directories in pg_basebackup
-->
- Improve
pg_basebackup's handling of which + Improve
pg_basebackupapplication>'s handling of which directories to skip (David Steele)
-
<application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></>
+
<application><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></<span class="marked">application</span>>
2016-09-21 [e7010ce47] pg_ctl: Add wait option to promote action
-->
+ Add wait option for
application>'s promote operation (Peter Eisentraut)
2016-10-19 [0be22457d] pg_ctl: Add long options for -w and -W
-->
- Add long options for
pg_ctl> wait (--wait>) - and no-wait (--no-wait) (Vik Fearing)
+ Add long options for
pg_ctlapplication> wait (--wait>) + and no-wait (--no-waitoption>) (Vik Fearing)
2016-10-19 [caf936b09] pg_ctl: Add long option for -o
-->
- Add long option for
pg_ctl server options - (--options) (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add long option for
pg_ctlapplication> server options + (--optionsoption>) (Peter Eisentraut)
2017-06-28 [f13ea95f9] Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status
-->
- Make pg_ctl start --wait detect server-ready by
- watching postmaster.pid, not by attempting connections
+ Make pg_ctl start --waitliteral> detect server-ready by
+ watching postmaster.pidfilename>, not by attempting connections
(Tom Lane)
The postmaster has been changed to report its ready-for-connections
- status in
postmaster.pid>, and pg_ctl> + status in
postmaster.pidfilename>, and pg_ctl> now examines that file to detect whether startup is complete.
This is more efficient and reliable than the old method, and it
eliminates postmaster log entries about rejected connection
2017-06-26 [c61559ec3] Reduce pg_ctl's reaction time when waiting for postmaste
-->
- Reduce
pg_ctl's reaction time when waiting for + Reduce
pg_ctlapplication>'s reaction time when waiting for postmaster start/stop (Tom Lane)
-
pg_ctl now probes ten times per second when waiting +
pg_ctlapplication> now probes ten times per second when waiting for a postmaster state change, rather than once per second.
2017-07-05 [1bac5f552] pg_ctl: Make failure to complete operation a nonzero exi
-->
- Ensure that
pg_ctl exits with nonzero status if an + Ensure that
pg_ctlapplication> exits with nonzero status if an operation being waited for does not complete within the timeout
(Peter Eisentraut)
- The start> and promote> operations now return
- exit status 1, not 0, in such cases. The stop operation
+ The startliteral> and promote> operations now return
+ exit status 1, not 0, in such cases. The stopliteral> operation
has always done that.
- Release numbers will now have two parts (e.g., 10.1)
- rather than three (e.g., 9.6.3).
+ Release numbers will now have two parts (e.g., 10.1literal>)
+ rather than three (e.g., 9.6.3literal>).
Major versions will now increase just the first number, and minor
releases will increase just the second number.
Release branches will be referred to by single numbers
- (e.g., 10> rather than 9.6>).
+ (e.g., 10literal> rather than 9.6>).
This change is intended to reduce user confusion about what is a
- major or minor release of
PostgreSQL. + major or minor release of
PostgreSQLproductname>.
2017-06-21 [81f056c72] Remove entab and associated detritus.
-->
- Improve behavior of
pgindent + Improve behavior of
pgindentapplication> (Piotr Stefaniak, Tom Lane)
- We have switched to a new version of
pg_bsd_indent + We have switched to a new version of
pg_bsd_indentapplication> based on recent improvements made by the FreeBSD project. This
fixes numerous small bugs that led to odd C code formatting
decisions. Most notably, lines within parentheses (such as in a
2017-03-23 [eccfef81e] ICU support
-->
- Allow the
ICU>> library to + Allow the
ICUacronym>> library to optionally be used for collation support (Peter Eisentraut)
- The
ICU library has versioning that allows detection + The
ICUacronym> library has versioning that allows detection of collation changes between versions. It is enabled via configure
- option --with-icu. The default still uses the operating
+ option --with-icuoption>. The default still uses the operating
system's native collation library.
-->
Automatically mark all
- linkend="xfunc-c">PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1>> functions
- as DLLEXPORT-ed on
- Windows (Laurenz Albe)
+ linkend="xfunc-c">PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1function>> functions
+ as DLLEXPORTliteral>-ed on
+ Windowssystemitem> (Laurenz Albe)
- If third-party code is using extern function
- declarations, they should also add DLLEXPORT markers
+ If third-party code is using externliteral> function
+ declarations, they should also add DLLEXPORTliteral> markers
to those declarations.
2016-11-08 [1833f1a1c] Simplify code by getting rid of SPI_push, SPI_pop, SPI_r
-->
- Remove
SPI> functions SPI_push()>, - SPI_pop()>, SPI_push_conditional()>,
- SPI_pop_conditional(),
- and SPI_restore_connection() as unnecessary (Tom Lane)
+ Remove
SPIacronym> functions SPI_push()>, + SPI_pop()function>, SPI_push_conditional()>,
+ SPI_pop_conditional()function>,
+ and SPI_restore_connection()function> as unnecessary (Tom Lane)
- A side effect of this change is that SPI_palloc() and
+ A side effect of this change is that SPI_palloc()function> and
allied functions now require an active SPI connection; they do not
- degenerate to simple palloc() if there is none. That
+ degenerate to simple palloc()function> if there is none. That
previous behavior was not very useful and posed risks of unexpected
memory leaks.
2016-10-09 [ecb0d20a9] Use unnamed POSIX semaphores, if available, on Linux and
-->
- Use
POSIX semaphores rather than SysV semaphores - on
Linux and
- class="osname">FreeBSD (Tom Lane)
+ Use
POSIXacronym> semaphores rather than SysV semaphores + on
Linuxsystemitem> and
+ class="osname">FreeBSDsystemitem> (Tom Lane)
2017-03-10 [f8f1430ae] Enable 64 bit atomics on ARM64.
-->
- Enable 64-bit atomic operations on
ARM64 (Roman + Enable 64-bit atomic operations on
ARM64acronym> (Roman Shaposhnik)
2017-01-02 [1d63f7d2d] Use clock_gettime(), if available, in instr_time measure
-->
- Switch to using clock_gettime(), if available, for
+ Switch to using clock_gettime()function>, if available, for
duration measurements (Tom Lane)
- gettimeofday() is still used
- if clock_gettime() is not available.
+ gettimeofday()function> is still used
+ if clock_gettime()function> is not available.
If no strong random number generator can be
- found, configure will fail unless
- the --disable-strong-random option is used. However, with
- this option,
pgcrypto>> + found, configurelink> will fail unless
+ the --disable-strong-randomoption> option is used. However, with
+ this option,
pgcryptoapplication>> functions requiring a strong random number generator will be disabled.
2017-08-15 [d7ab908fb] Distinguish wait-for-connection from wait-for-write-read
-->
- Allow WaitLatchOrSocket() to wait for socket
+ Allow WaitLatchOrSocket()function> to wait for socket
connection on Windows (Andres Freund)
2017-04-06 [3f902354b] Clean up after insufficiently-researched optimization of
-->
- tupconvert.c functions no longer convert tuples just to
+ tupconvert.cfilename> functions no longer convert tuples just to
embed a different composite-type OID in them (Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane)
2016-10-11 [2b860f52e] Remove "sco" and "unixware" ports.
-->
- Remove
SCO and
- class="osname">Unixware ports (Tom Lane)
+ Remove
SCOsystemitem> and
+ class="osname">Unixwaresystemitem> ports (Tom Lane)
-->
Overhaul documentation build
- process (Alexander Lakhin)
+ processlink> (Alexander Lakhin)
2017-04-06 [510074f9f] Remove use of Jade and DSSSL
-->
- Use
XSLT> to build the PostgreSQL> + Use
XSLTacronym> to build the PostgreSQL> documentation (Peter Eisentraut)
- Previously
Jade>, DSSSL>, and + Previously
Jadeapplication>, DSSSL>, and +
JadeTexapplication> were used.
2016-11-15 [e36ddab11] Build HTML documentation using XSLT stylesheets by defau
-->
- Build
HTML> documentation using XSLT> + Build
HTMLacronym> documentation using XSLT> stylesheets by default (Peter Eisentraut)
2016-09-29 [8e91e12bc] Allow contrib/file_fdw to read from a program, like COPY
-->
- Allow
file_fdw>> to read + Allow
file_fdwapplication>> to read from program output as well as files (Corey Huinker, Adam Gomaa)
2016-10-21 [7012b132d] postgres_fdw: Push down aggregates to remote servers.
-->
+ In
postgres_fdwapplication>>, push aggregate functions to the remote server, when possible
(Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat)
2017-04-24 [332bec1e6] postgres_fdw: Fix join push down with extensions
-->
- In
postgres_fdw, push joins to the remote server in + In
postgres_fdwapplication>, push joins to the remote server in more cases (David Rowley, Ashutosh Bapat, Etsuro Fujita)
2016-08-26 [ae025a159] Support OID system column in postgres_fdw.
-->
- Properly support OID columns in
-
postgres_fdw tables (Etsuro Fujita) + Properly support OIDtype> columns in
+
postgres_fdwapplication> tables (Etsuro Fujita)
- Previously OID columns always returned zeros.
+ Previously OIDtype> columns always returned zeros.
2017-03-21 [f7946a92b] Add btree_gist support for enum types.
-->
+ Allow
btree_gistapplication>> + and
btree_ginapplication>> to index enum types (Andrew Dunstan)
2016-11-29 [11da83a0e] Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_
-->
- Add indexing support to
btree_gist for the - UUID data type (Paul Jungwirth)
+ Add indexing support to
btree_gistapplication> for the + UUIDtype> data type (Paul Jungwirth)
2017-03-09 [3717dc149] Add amcheck extension to contrib.
-->
- Add
amcheck>> which can + Add
amcheckapplication>> which can check the validity of B-tree indexes (Peter Geoghegan)
2017-03-27 [a6f22e835] Show ignored constants as "$N" rather than "?" in pg_sta
-->
- Show ignored constants as $N> rather than ?>
+ Show ignored constants as $Nliteral> rather than ?>
in
- linkend="pgstatstatements">
pg_stat_statements>> + linkend="pgstatstatements">
pg_stat_statementsapplication>> (Lukas Fittl)
2016-09-27 [f31a931fa] Improve contrib/cube's handling of zero-D cubes, infinit
-->
- Improve
cube>>'s handling + Improve
cubeapplication>>'s handling of zero-dimensional cubes (Tom Lane)
- This also improves handling of infinite and
- NaN values.
+ This also improves handling of infiniteliteral> and
+ NaNliteral> values.
-->
Allow
- linkend="pgbuffercache">
pg_buffercache>> to run + linkend="pgbuffercache">
pg_buffercacheapplication>> to run with fewer locks (Ivan Kartyshov)
2017-02-03 [e759854a0] pgstattuple: Add pgstathashindex.
-->
- function pgstathashindex() to view hash index
+ Add
pgstattupleapplication>> + function pgstathashindex()function> to view hash index
statistics (Ashutosh Sharma)
2016-09-29 [fd321a1df] Remove superuser checks in pgstattuple
-->
- Use GRANT permissions to
- control
pgstattuple function usage (Stephen Frost) + Use GRANTcommand> permissions to
+ control
pgstattupleapplication> function usage (Stephen Frost)
2016-10-28 [d4b5d4cad] pgstattuple: Don't take heavyweight locks when examining
-->
- Reduce locking when
pgstattuple examines hash + Reduce locking when
pgstattupleapplication> examines hash indexes (Amit Kapila)
2017-03-17 [fef2bcdcb] pageinspect: Add page_checksum function
-->
- function page_checksum() to show a page's checksum
+ Add
pageinspectapplication>> + function page_checksum()function> to show a page's checksum
(Tomas Vondra)
2017-04-04 [193f5f9e9] pageinspect: Add bt_page_items function with bytea argum
-->
- function bt_page_items() to print page items from a
+ Add
pageinspectapplication> + function bt_page_items()function> to print page items from a
page image (Tomas Vondra)
2017-02-02 [08bf6e529] pageinspect: Support hash indexes.
-->
- Add hash index support to
pageinspect (Jesper + Add hash index support to
pageinspectapplication> (Jesper Pedersen, Ashutosh Sharma)
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