<Step Performance="required">
<para>
Several regression tests could fail if the user's locale collation
- scheme is different from that of standard C locale.
+ scheme is different from that of the standard <literal>C</literal> locale.
</para>
<para>
If you configure and compile <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>
- with the <option>--enable-locale</option> option then
- set locale environment to C (or unset all LC_* variables)
+ with <option>--enable-locale</option> then you should
+ set the locale environment to <quote><literal>C</literal></quote>
+ (or unset all <quote>LC_*</quote> variables)
by putting these additional lines to your login environment
- before starting postmaster:
+ before starting <application>postmaster</application>:
+
<ProgramListing>
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE=C
- <chapter>
+ <chapter id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
<sect1>
longer are restricted by simple table-level locking;
we have something better than row-level locking.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ Hot backups from <application>pg_dump</application>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Another big benefit of MVCC is that <application>pg_dump</application>
- can now generate consistent backups of live, active databases, without
- blocking active transactions.
+ <application>pg_dump</application> takes advantage of the new
+ MVCC features to give a consistant database dump/backup while
+ the database stays online and available for queries.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>
We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement
support. We have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL,
- SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK command.
+ SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<command>SELECT</command> it doesn't mean that this row really exists
at the time it is returned (i.e. sometime after the statement or
transaction began) nor that the row is protected from deletion or
- updation by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
+ update by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
a commit or rollback.
</para>