Do a round of copy-editing on the 9.5 release notes.

Also fill in the previously empty "major enhancements" list.  YMMV as to
which items should make the cut, but it's past time we had something more
than a placeholder here.

(I meant to get this done before beta2 was wrapped, but got distracted by
PDF build problems.  Better late than never.)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
index 64057c3f8a3ae56f4b0146062a2546f41501de76..110ba40c4dfcc55d7eaad148f02b94f2798d7590 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
@@ -23,7 +23,50 @@
 
     
      
-      ... to be filled in ...
+      Allow INSERTS
+      that would generate constraint conflicts to be turned into
+      UPDATEs or ignored
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Add GROUP BY analysis functions 
+      linkend="queries-grouping-sets">GROUPING SETS,
+      CUBE and
+      ROLLUP
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Add row-level security control
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Allow labeling of
+      the origin of logical replication changes, and provide mechanisms
+      for tracking the progress of replication
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Add Block Range Indexes (BRIN)
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Substantial performance improvements for sorting
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      Substantial performance improvements for multi-CPU machines
      
     
 
@@ -88,6 +131,11 @@
       Change pg_ctl's default shutdown mode from
       smart to fast (Bruce Momjian)
      
+
+     
+      This means the default behavior will be to forcibly cancel existing
+      database sessions, not simply wait for them to exit.
+     
     
 
     
@@ -255,8 +303,10 @@ max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
        
 
        
-        BRIN indexes are very compact and cheap to update by
-        storing min/max values for a range of heap blocks.
+        BRIN indexes store only summary data (such as minimum
+        and maximum values) for ranges of heap blocks.  They are therefore
+        very compact and cheap to update; but if the data is naturally
+        clustered, they can still provide substantial speedup of searches.
        
       
 
@@ -273,9 +323,9 @@ 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 then
-        filtered further with a more accurate non-bounding-box distance
-        calculation.
+        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.
        
       
 
@@ -335,9 +385,9 @@ Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
 2015-05-13 [78efd5c] Robert..: Extend abbreviated key infrastructure to datum ..
 -->
        
-        Improve the speed of sorting VARCHAR, TEXT,
-        and NUMERIC fields (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Gierth,
-        Robert Haas)
+        Improve the speed of sorting of varchar, text,
+        and numeric fields via abbreviated keys
+        (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Gierth, Robert Haas)
        
       
 
@@ -358,10 +408,9 @@ Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
 2014-09-10 [45f6240] Heikki..: Pack tuples in a hash join batch densely, to sa..
 2014-09-12 [8cce08f] Robert..: Change NTUP_PER_BUCKET to 1 to improve hash joi..
 2014-10-13 [30d7ae3] Kevin ..: Increase number of hash join buckets for undere..
-FIXME: bad description? Should talk about hash joins
 -->
        
-        Improve in-memory hash performance (Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas)
+        Improve performance of hash joins (Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas)
        
       
 
@@ -369,11 +418,10 @@ FIXME: bad description? Should talk about hash joins
 
        
         Improve concurrency of shared buffer replacement
-        (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila)
+        (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund)
        
       
 
@@ -397,12 +445,8 @@ FIXME: Add Andres
 2015-01-19 [2d115e4] Andres..: Fix various shortcomings of the new PrivateRefC..
 -->
        
-        Make backend local tracking of buffer pins memory efficient (Andres Freund)
-       
-
-       
-        Previously each session allocated an array with space for every buffer
-        in shared_buffers.
+        Make per-backend tracking of buffer pins more memory-efficient
+        (Andres Freund)
        
       
 
@@ -425,8 +469,8 @@ FIXME: Add Andres
 2014-07-15 [f15821e] Tom Lane: Allow join removal in some cases involving a le..
 -->
        
-        Allow the optimizer to remove unnecessary references to left
-        outer join subqueries (David Rowley)
+        Allow the optimizer to remove unnecessary references to left-joined
+        subqueries (David Rowley)
        
       
 
@@ -435,7 +479,7 @@ FIXME: Add Andres
 2014-06-27 [d222585] Tom Lane: Allow pushdown of WHERE quals into subqueries w..
 -->
        
-        Allow pushdown of query restrictions into 
+        Allow pushdown of query restrictions into subqueries with 
         linkend="functions-window">window functions, where appropriate
         (David Rowley)
        
@@ -498,19 +542,20 @@ FIXME: Add Andres
       
 
       
-       
 
-        Speed up CREATE INDEX by avoiding unnecessary memory copies (Robert Haas)
+       
+        Speed up CREATE INDEX by avoiding unnecessary memory
+        copies (Robert Haas)
        
       
 
       
-       
 
+       
         Increase the number of buffer mapping partitions (Amit Kapila,
         Andres Freund, Robert Haas)
        
@@ -534,12 +579,9 @@ FIXME: Add Andres
 2015-04-03 [4ff695b1] Alvaro..: Add log_min_autovacuum_duration per-table option
 -->
        
-        Add per-table autovacuum logging control via
-        log_min_autovacuum_duration (Michael Paquier)
-       
-
-       
-        NOT DOCUMENTED?
+        Add per-table autovacuum logging control via new
+        log_min_autovacuum_duration storage parameter
+        (Michael Paquier)
        
       
 
@@ -677,17 +719,6 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 
       
 
-       
-        Add configuration parameter  to
-        control compression of full page images stored in WAL
-        (Rahila Syed, Michael Paquier)
-       
-      
-
-      
-
        
@@ -736,7 +767,7 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
         This means that assertions can no longer be turned
         off if they were enabled at compile time, allowing for more
-        efficient code optimization.  This change also removed the 
+        efficient code optimization.  This change also removes the 
         linkend="app-postgres-options">postgres -A option.
        
       
@@ -789,7 +820,8 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
         Add pending_restart to the system view 
         linkend="view-pg-settings">pg_settings to
-        indicate a change is pending a restart (Peter Eisentraut)
+        indicate a change has been made but will not take effect until a
+        database restart (Peter Eisentraut)
        
       
 
@@ -804,7 +836,8 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
        
 
        
-        This command removes the setting from postgresql.auto.conf.
+        This command removes the specified setting
+        from postgresql.auto.conf.
        
       
 
@@ -881,6 +914,23 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
 
       
 
+       
+        Allow compression of full-page images stored in WAL
+        (Rahila Syed, Michael Paquier)
+       
+
+       
+        This feature reduces WAL volume, at the cost of more CPU time spent
+        on WAL logging and WAL replay.  It is controlled by a new
+        configuration parameter , which
+        currently is off by default.
+       
+      
+
+      
+
        
@@ -910,12 +960,11 @@ FIXME: Add docs about restartpoint behaviour change
       
 
        
         Allow labeling of
-        the origin progress of logical replication changes (Andres Freund)
+        the origin of logical replication changes, and provide mechanisms
+        for tracking the progress of replication (Andres Freund)
        
 
        
@@ -926,7 +975,6 @@ FIXME: Correct description
       
 
        
         Report the processes holding replication slots in 
@@ -1013,7 +1061,7 @@ FIXME: Correct description
 2014-10-07 [df630b0] Alvaro..: Implement SKIP LOCKED for row-level locks
 -->
        
-        Add new SELECT option
+        Add SELECT option
         SKIP LOCKED to skip locked rows (Thomas Munro)
        
 
@@ -1216,12 +1264,11 @@ FIXME: Correct description
        
 
        
-        Commands include ALTER
-        USER,
-       ALTER
+        This includes ALTER
+        USER, ALTER
         GROUP, ALTER
         ROLE, GRANT,
-        and various ALTER OBJECT / OWNER TO commands.
+        and various ALTER object OWNER TO commands.
        
       
 
@@ -1256,8 +1303,8 @@ FIXME: Correct description
        
 
        
-        Previously only UPDATE, DELETE, and
-        TRUNCATE privileges allowed this.
+        Previously this required UPDATE, DELETE, or
+        TRUNCATE privileges.
        
       
 
@@ -1440,7 +1487,7 @@ FIXME: Better description?
 2014-09-09 [57b1085] Peter ..: Allow empty content in xml type
 -->
       
-       Allow the XML data type
+       Allow the xml data type
        to accept empty or all-whitespace values (Peter Eisentraut)
       
 
@@ -1455,7 +1502,7 @@ FIXME: Better description?
 2014-10-21 [6f04368] Peter ..: Allow input format xxxx-xxxx-xxxx for macaddr ..
 -->
       
-       Allow MACADDR input
+       Allow macaddr input
        using the format xxxx-xxxx-xxxx (Herwin Weststrate)
       
      
@@ -1467,7 +1514,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
       
        Tighten syntax of 
-       linkend="datatype-interval-input">INTERVAL precision
+       linkend="datatype-interval-input">interval precision
        specifications (Bruce Momjian)
       
 
@@ -1483,12 +1530,26 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
       
        Add selectivity estimators for 
-       linkend="datatype-inet">INET/
-       linkend="datatype-cidr">CIDR operators and improve
+       linkend="datatype-inet">inet/
+       linkend="datatype-cidr">cidr operators and improve
        estimators for text search functions (Emre Hasegeli, Tom Lane)
       
      
 
+     
+
+      
+       Add data
+       types regrole
+       and regnamespace
+       that simplify pretty-printing the OID of a role or
+       namespace (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+      
+     
+
     
 
     
@@ -1515,8 +1576,8 @@ 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)
+        Add several generator functions for jsonb that already
+        existed for json (Andrew Dunstan)
        
 
        
@@ -1541,8 +1602,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
        
         Reduce casting requirements to/from 
-        linkend="datatype-json">JSON and 
-        linkend="datatype-json">JSONB (Tom Lane)
+        linkend="datatype-json">json and 
+        linkend="datatype-json">jsonb (Tom Lane)
        
       
 
@@ -1551,9 +1612,9 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2015-06-11 [908e234] Andrew..: Rename jsonb - text[] operator to #- to avoid a..
 -->
        
-        Allow TEXT, TEXT array, and INTEGER
+        Allow text, text array, and integer
         values to be subtracted
-        from JSONB documents (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan)
+        from jsonb documents (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan)
        
       
 
@@ -1562,8 +1623,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2015-05-12 [c694701] Andrew..: Additional functions and operators for jsonb
 -->
        
-        Add JSONB 
-        linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">operator ||
+        Add jsonb 
+        linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">|| operator
         (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan)
        
       
@@ -1577,7 +1638,7 @@ 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)
        
       
@@ -1599,7 +1660,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
        
         Add generate_series()
-        for NUMERIC values (Plato Malugin)
+        for numeric values (Plato Malugin)
        
       
 
@@ -1759,7 +1820,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        
 
        
-        This represents the last time the snapshot files was written to
+        This represents the last time the snapshot file was written to
         the file system.
        
       
@@ -1774,18 +1835,6 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
         to compute multi-xid age (Bruce Momjian)
        
       
-
-      
-
-       
-        Add data types 
-        linkend="datatype-oid-table">regrole regnamespace that returns
-        the OID of a role (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
-       
-      
      
 
     
@@ -1800,9 +1849,9 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-08-28 [6c40f83] Tom Lane: Add min and max aggregates for inet/cidr data t..
 -->
        
-        Add MIN()/MAX() aggregates
-        for INET/
-        linkend="datatype-cidr">CIDR data types (Haribabu
+        Add min()/max() aggregates
+        for inet/
+        linkend="datatype-cidr">cidr data types (Haribabu
         Kommi)
        
       
@@ -1813,8 +1862,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2015-03-20 [959277a] Andres..: Use 128-bit math to accelerate some aggregation..
 -->
        
-        Use 128-bit integers, where supported, as aggregate accumulators
-        (Andreas Karlsson)
+        Use 128-bit integers, where supported, as accumulators for some
+        aggregate functions (Andreas Karlsson)
        
       
 
@@ -1851,7 +1900,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
       
        Reduce lossiness of 
-       linkend="plpython">PL/Python floating value
+       linkend="plpython">PL/Python floating-point value
        conversions (Marko Kreen)
       
      
@@ -1943,6 +1992,11 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        and pg_xlogdump
        from contrib to src/bin (Peter Eisentraut)
       
+
+      
+       This should result in these programs being installed by default in
+       most installations.
+      
      
 
      
@@ -1977,14 +2031,14 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-11-18 [c4f99d2] Fujii ..: Add ––synchronous option to pg_receivexlog, for..
 -->
       
-       Allow the 
+       Allow 
        linkend="app-pgreceivexlog">pg_receivexlog
-       to synchronously flush WAL to storage using
-       --synchronous (Furuya Osamu, Fujii Masao)
+       to synchronously flush WAL to storage using new
+       --synchronous option (Furuya Osamu, Fujii Masao)
       
 
       
-       Without this, WAL files are fsynced only on close.
+       Without this, WAL files are fsync'ed only on close.
       
      
 
@@ -1994,7 +2048,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 -->
       
        Allow vacuumdb to
-       vacuum in parallel using --jobs (Dilip Kumar)
+       vacuum in parallel using new --jobs option (Dilip Kumar)
       
      
 
@@ -2084,9 +2138,9 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
 2014-09-02 [51bb795] Andres..: Add psql PROMPT variable showing which line of ..
 -->
         
-         Add psql 
-         linkend="APP-PSQL-variables">PROMPT variables option
-         (%l) to display the multiline statement line number
+         Add new option %l in psql's 
+         linkend="APP-PSQL-variables">PROMPT variables
+         to display the current multiline statement line number
          (Sawada Masahiko)
         
        
@@ -2153,7 +2207,7 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
         
 
         
-         variables outputs psql variables
+         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.
@@ -2249,9 +2303,8 @@ FIXME: Add more specifics?
        
         The remote snapshot must have been exported by
         pg_export_snapshot() or logical replication slot
-        creation.  This can be used by another pg_dump to
-        use a share a consistent snapshot across pg_dump
-        processes.
+        creation.  This can be used to share a consistent snapshot
+        across multiple pg_dump processes.
        
       
 
@@ -2480,6 +2533,16 @@ FIXME: Improve description, link
 
       
 
+       
+        Improve the representation of transaction commit and abort WAL
+        records (Andres Freund)
+       
+      
+
+      
+
        
@@ -2666,8 +2729,8 @@ FIXME: Improve description, link
 2014-07-12 [8d9a0e8] Magnus..: Support ––with-extra-version equivalent functi..
 -->
        
-        Allow configure's
-        --with-extra-version to be honored by the
+        Allow configure's
+        --with-extra-version option to be honored by the
         MSVC build (Michael Paquier)
        
       




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