<listitem>
<para>
- Change <function>pg_last_xlog_receive_location()</> so it never moves
- backwards (Fujii Masao)
+ Change <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-info-table"><function>pg_last_xlog_receive_location()</></link>
+ so it never moves backwards (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have logging of replication connections honor log_connections
+ Have logging of replication connections honor <link
+ linkend="guc-log-connections"><varname>log_connections</></link>
(Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on
- (Robert Haas)
+ Change the default value of <link
+ linkend="guc-standard-conforming-strings"><varname>standard_conforming_strings</></link>
+ to on (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL
- standard; escape_string_warning has produced warnings about
- this usage for years. E'' strings the proper way to embed
- escapes in strings and is unaffected by this change.
+ standard; <link
+ linkend="guc-escape-string-warning"><varname>escape_string_warning</></link>
+ has produced warnings about this usage for years. <literal>E''</>
+ strings the proper way to embed escapes in strings and is
+ unaffected by this change.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change string_to_array to return an empty array for for a
- zero-length string (Pavel Stehule)
+ Change <link
+ linkend="array-functions-table"><function>string_to_array()</></link>
+ to return an empty array for for a zero-length string (Pavel
+ Stehule)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Change string_to_array so a <literal>NULL</> separator splits the string
- into characters (Pavel Stehule)
+ Change <link
+ linkend="array-functions-table"><function>string_to_array()</></link>
+ so a <literal>NULL</> separator splits the string into characters
+ (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>PL/pgSQL</title>
+ <title><link linkend="plpgsql">PL/pgSQL</link> Server-Side Language</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Adjust PL/pgsql's error line reporting code to be consistent
+ Adjust PL/pgSQL's error line reporting code to be consistent
with SQL error line reporting (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have <function>pg_stat_reset()</> reset all database-level statistics (Tom
- Lane)
+ Have <link
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset()</></link>
+ reset all database-level statistics (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix some information_schema.triggers column names to match
- the new SQL-standard names (Dean Rasheed)
+ Fix some <link
+ linkend="infoschema-triggers"><structname>information_schema.triggers</></link>
+ column names to match the new SQL-standard names (Dean Rasheed)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Treat ecpg cursor names as case-insensitive (Zoltan Boszormenyi)
+ Treat ECPG cursor names as case-insensitive (Zoltan Boszormenyi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a synchronous replication option (Simon Riggs, Fujii Masao)
+ Add a <link
+ linkend="guc-synchronous-replication"><varname>synchronous_replication</></link>
+ option (Simon Riggs, Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add variable hot_standby_feedback to enable standbys to
- communicate their needed snapshots to the primary (Simon Riggs)
+ Add variable <link
+ linkend="guc-hot-standby-feedback"><varname>hot_standby_feedback</></link>
+ to enable standbys to communicate their needed snapshots to
+ the primary (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add command-line tool <application>pg_basebackup</> for creating a new standby
- server or database backup (Magnus Hagander)
+ Add command-line tool <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</></link>
+ for creating a new standby server or database backup (Magnus
+ Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new "replication" permission for roles (Magnus Hagander)
+ Add new replication <link linkend="SQL-CREATEROLE">permission</link>
+ for roles (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add system view <literal>pg_stat_replication</> which displays activity
- of WAL sender processes (Itagaki Takahiro, Simon Riggs)
+ Add system view <link
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_replication</></link>
+ which displays activity of WAL sender processes (Itagaki
+ Takahiro, Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add monitoring function <function>pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()</> (Fujii
- Masao)
+ Add monitoring function <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-info-table"><function>pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()</></link>
+ (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
- The new functions are <function>pg_xlog_replay_pause()</>,
- <function>pg_xlog_replay_resume()</>, and the status function
- <function>pg_is_xlog_replay_paused()</>.
+ The new functions are <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-control-table"><function>pg_xlog_replay_pause()</></link>,
+ <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-control-table"><function>pg_xlog_replay_resume()</></link>,
+ and the status function <link
+ linkend="functions-recovery-control-table"><function>pg_is_xlog_replay_paused()</></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add named restore points for recovery which can be specified
- in <filename>recovery.conf</> (Jaime Casanova)
+ Add the ability to create named restore points using <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-backup-table"><function>pg_create_restore_point()</></link>
+ (Jaime Casanova)
</para>
<para>
- The function <function>pg_create_restore_point()</> allows recovery targets
- to be named for later designation during recovery.
+ These named restore points can be specified as recovery targets in
+ <filename>recovery.conf</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <filename>recovery.conf</> setting pause_at_recovery_target to pause
- recovery at target (Simon Riggs)
+ Add <filename>recovery.conf</> setting <link
+ linkend="pause-at-recovery-target"><varname>pause_at_recovery_target
+ to pause</></link> recovery at target (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <filename>recovery.conf</> to use the same quoting behavior as
- <filename>postgresql.conf</> (Dimitri Fontaine)
+ Allow <link linkend="recovery-config"><filename>recovery.conf</></link>
+ to use the same quoting behavior as <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+ (Dimitri Fontaine)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow unlogged tables (Robert Haas)
+ Allow unlogged tables using <link
+ linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE-description"><literal>UNLOGGED</></link> during <link
+ linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE"><command>CREATE TABLE</></link> (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of commit_siblings (Greg Smith)
+ Improve performance of <link
+ linkend="guc-commit-siblings"><varname>commit_siblings</></link>
+ (Greg Smith)
</para>
<para>
- This allows the use of commit_siblings with fewer delays.
+ This allows the use of commit_siblings with less overhead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support host names and host suffixes (e.g. .example.com) in
- <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ <link linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</></link>
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Support they keyword 'all' in the host column of <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
- (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Support they keyword 'all' in the host column of <link
+ linkend="auth-pg-hba-conf"><filename>pg_hba.conf</></link> (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- Previously people used '0.0.0.0/0' or '::/0' for this.
+ Previously people used <literal>0.0.0.0/0</> or <literal>::/0</> for this.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow GSSAPI to be used to authenticate to servers via SSPI
+ Allow <link linkend="gssapi-auth">GSSAPI</link> to be used to
+ authenticate to servers via <link linkend="sspi-auth">SSPI</link>
(Christian Ullrich)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
Add details to the logging of restart points and checkpoints,
- which is controlled by log_checkpoints (Fujii Masao, Greg
+ which is controlled by <link linkend="guc-log-checkpoints"><varname>log_checkpoints</></link> (Fujii Masao, Greg
Smith)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add log_file_mode which controls the permissions on log files
- created by the logging_collector (Martin Pihlak)
+ Add <link linkend="guc-log-file-mode"><varname>log_file_mode</></link>
+ which controls the permissions on log files created by the
+ logging_collector (Martin Pihlak)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add client_hostname field to <structname>pg_stat_activity</> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add client_hostname field to <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_activity</></link> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add pg_stat_xact_* statistic functions and views (Joel Jacobson)
+ Add <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_xact_*</></link> statistic functions and views (Joel Jacobson)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the <structname>pg_stat_database_conflicts</> system view to show queries
+ Add the <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_database_conflicts</></link> system view to show queries
that have been canceled and the reason (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a "conflicts" count to <structname>pg_stat_database</> (Magnus Hagander)
+ Add a <literal>conflicts</> count to <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_database</></link> (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add record of last reset for database and background writer-level
- statistics (Tomas Vondra)
+ Add record of last reset in database and background writer-level
+ statistics views (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add columns showing the number of vacuum and analyze operations
- in pg_stat_*_tables views (Magnus Hagander)
+ in <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_*_tables</></link> views (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to <structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</> (Greg
+ Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to <link linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</></link> (Greg
Smith)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow auto-tuning of wal_buffers (Greg Smith)
+ Allow auto-tuning of <link linkend="guc-wal-buffers"><varname>wal_buffers</></link> (Greg Smith)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add restart_after_crash which disables server restart after
+ Add <link linkend="guc-restart-after-crash"><varname>restart_after_crash</></link> which disables server restart after
a backend crash (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
Allow data-modification commands
(<command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE)</>
- in <literal>WITH</> clauses (Marko Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
+ in <link linkend="queries-with"><literal>WITH</></link> clauses (Marko Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <literal>WITH</> clauses to be fed into <command>INSERT</>,
+ Allow <link linkend="queries-with"><literal>WITH</></link> clauses to be fed into <command>INSERT</>,
<command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE </> statements (Marko
Tiikkaja, Hitoshi Harada)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow non- <literal>GROUP BY</> columns in the query target list when the
+ Allow non-<link linkend="queries-group"><literal>GROUP BY</></link> columns in the query target list when the
primary key is specified in the <literal>GROUP BY</> clause (Peter
Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow the use of the keyword <literal>DISTINCT</> in
+ Allow the use of the keyword <link linkend="queries-union"><literal>DISTINCT</></link> in
<literal>UNION</>/<literal>INTERSECT</>/<literal>EXCEPT</>
clauses (Tom Lane)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add per-column collation support (Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane)
+ Add per-column <link linkend="sql-syntax-collate-exprs">collation</link> support (Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for foreign tables (Shigeru Hanada, Robert Haas,
+ Add support for <link linkend="SQL-CREATEFOREIGNTABLE">foreign tables</link> (Shigeru Hanada, Robert Haas,
Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This allows data stored in foreign sources to be used like
- native Postgres-stored data.
+ native <productname>PostgreSQL</>-stored data.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow new values to be added to an existing enum type via <link
+ linkend="SQL-ALTERTYPE"><command>ALTER TYPE</></link>(Andrew
+ Dunstan)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <command>ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE</> (Peter
+ Add <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTYPE"><command>ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE</></link> (Peter
Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>RESTRICT</>/<literal>CASCADE</> to <command>ALTER
- TYPE</> operations on typed tables (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Add <literal>RESTRICT</>/<literal>CASCADE</> to <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTYPE"><command>ALTER
+ TYPE</></link> operations on typed tables (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <command>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS</> syntax (Robert Haas)
+ Add <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE"><command>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS</></link> syntax (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <command>ALTER TABLE ... ADD UNIQUE</>/<literal>PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX</> (Gurjeet
+ Add <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE ... ADD UNIQUE</></link>/<literal>PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX</> (Gurjeet
Singh)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <command>ALTER TABLE</> to add foreign keys without validation (Simon
+ Allow <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE</></link> to add foreign keys without validation (Simon
Riggs)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <command>ALTER TABLE</> ... <literal>SET DATA TYPE</> to avoid table rewrites in
+ Allow <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE</></link> ... <literal>SET DATA TYPE</> to avoid table rewrites in
appropriate cases (Noah Misch, Robert Haas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add a <command>SECURITY LABEL</> command (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Add a <link linkend="SQL-SECURITY-LABEL"><command>SECURITY LABEL</></link> command (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add true a serializable isolation level (Kevin Grittner, Dan
+ Add true a <link linkend="xact-serializable">serializable isolation level</link> (Kevin Grittner, Dan
Ports)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add transaction-level advisory locks (Marko Tiikkaja)
+ Add transaction-level <link linkend="advisory-locks">advisory locks</link> (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Make <command>TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY</> restart sequences transactionally
+ Make <link linkend="SQL-TRUNCATE"><command>TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY</></link> restart sequences transactionally
(Steve Singer)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>ENCODING</> option to <command>COPY TO/FROM</> (Hitoshi Harada, Itagaki
+ Add <literal>ENCODING</> option to <link linkend="SQL-COPY"><command>COPY TO/FROM</></link> (Hitoshi Harada, Itagaki
Takahiro)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add bidirectional <command>COPY</> protocol support (Fujii Masao)
+ Add bidirectional <link linkend="SQL-COPY"><command>COPY</></link> protocol support (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Have <command>EXPLAIN</> show the function call expression in <literal>VERBOSE
+ Have <link linkend="SQL-EXPLAIN"><command>EXPLAIN</></link> show the function call expression in <literal>VERBOSE
</> mode (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</> with rules to use the same snapshot behavior
+ Fix <link linkend="SQL-EXPLAIN"><command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</></link> with rules to use the same snapshot behavior
as ordinary queries (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add additional details to the output of <command>VACUUM FULL VERBOSE</>
- and <command>CLUSTER VERBOSE</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ Add additional details to the output of <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM FULL VERBOSE</></link>
+ and <link linkend="SQL-CLUSTER"><command>CLUSTER VERBOSE</></link> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Prevent autovacuum from waiting if it cannot acquire a lock
+ Prevent <link linkend="autovacuum">autovacuum</link> from waiting if it cannot acquire a lock
(Robert Haas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add nearest-neighbor (order-by-operator) searching to GIST
- indexes (Teodor Sigaev, Tom Lane)
+ Add nearest-neighbor (order-by-operator) searching to <link linkend="GiST">GiST
+ indexes</link> (Teodor Sigaev, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- This allows GIST indexes to quickly return <literal>LIMIT</>-specified
+ This allows GiST indexes to quickly return <literal>LIMIT</>-specified
closest values.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow GIN indexes to index null and empty values (Tom Lane)
+ Allow <link linkend="GIN">GIN indexes</link> to index null and empty values (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix GiST indexes to be fully crash-safe (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Fix <link linkend="GiST">GiST indexes</link> to be fully crash-safe (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow numeric to use a more compact, two-byte header in many
+ Allow <type>numeric</> to use a more compact, two-byte header in many
cases (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
- Previously all numeric values had four-byte headers; this saves
+ Previously all <type>numeric</> values had four-byte headers; this saves
on disk storage.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow new values to be added to an existing enum type (Andrew
- Dunstan)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add support for dividing money by money (Andy Balholm)
+ Add support for dividing <type>money</> by <type>money</> (Andy Balholm)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for casting between money and numeric (Andy Balholm)
+ Add support for casting between <type>money</> and <type>numeric</> (Andy Balholm)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add XML function <literal>XMLEXISTS</> and <function>xpath_exists()</> functions (Mike
- Fowler)
+ Add XML function <link linkend="xml-exists"><literal>XMLEXISTS</></link>
+ and <link linkend="xml-exists"><function>xpath_exists()</></link>
+ functions (Mike Fowler)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add XML functions <function>xml_is_well_formed()</>, <function>xml_is_well_formed_document()</>,
- <function>xml_is_well_formed_content()</> (Mike Fowler)
+ Add XML functions <link linkend="xml-is-well-formed"><function>xml_is_well_formed()</></link>, <link linkend="xml-is-well-formed"><function>xml_is_well_formed_document()</></link>,
+ <link linkend="xml-is-well-formed"><function>xml_is_well_formed_content()</></link> (Mike Fowler)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new SQL function, format(text), which behaves like C's
+ Add new SQL function, <link linkend="format"><function>format(text)</></link>, which behaves like C's
<function>printf()</> (Pavel Stehule, Robert Haas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add string functions: <function>concat()</>, <function>concat_ws()</>, <function>left()</>, <function>right()</>,
- and <function>reverse()</> (Pavel Stehule)
+ Add string functions: <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>concat()</></link>, <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>concat_ws()</></link>, <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>left()</></link>, <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>right()</></link>,
+ and <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>reverse()</></link> (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add function <function>pg_read_binary_file()</> to read binary files
+ Add function <link linkend="functions-admin-genfile"><function>pg_read_binary_file()</></link> to read binary files
(Dimitri Fontaine, Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add single-parameter version of function <function>pg_read_file()</> to
+ Add single-parameter version of function <link linkend="functions-admin-genfile"><function>pg_read_file()</></link> to
read an entire file (Dimitri Fontaine, Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add three-parameter forms of array_to_string and string_to_array
+ Add three-parameter forms of <link linkend="array-functions-table"><function>array_to_string()</></link> and <link linkend="array-functions-table"><function>string_to_array()</></link>
for <literal>NULL</> processing control (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>pg_describe_object()</> function (Alvaro Herrera)
+ Add <link linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>pg_describe_object()</></link> function (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add variable quote_all_identifiers to force the quoting of
+ Add variable <link linkend="guc-quote-all-identifiers"><varname>quote_all_identifiers</></link> to force the quoting of
all identifiers in <command>EXPLAIN</> and system catalog functions like
- <function>pg_get_viewdef()</> (Robert Haas)
+ <link linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>pg_get_viewdef()</></link> (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add fields to the information_schema.sequences system view
+ Add fields to the <link linkend="infoschema-sequences"><structname>information_schema.sequences</></link> system view
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow 'public' as a pseudo-role name in <function>has_table_privilege()</>
+ Allow <literal>public</> as a pseudo-role name in <link linkend="functions-info-access-table"><function>has_table_privilege()</></link>
and and related functions (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED</> error code to report recovery
+ Add <link linkend="errcodes-table"><literal>ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED</></link> error code to report recovery
conflicts due to dropped databases (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <literal>INSTEAD OF</> triggers on views (Dean Rasheed)
+ Allow <link linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER"><literal>INSTEAD OF</></link> triggers on views (Dean Rasheed)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Reduce lock levels for <command>CREATE TRIGGER</> and some <command>ALTER TABLE</>,
- <command>CREATE RULE</> actions (Simon Riggs)
+ Reduce lock levels for <link linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER"><command>CREATE TRIGGER</></link> and some <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE</></link>,
+ <link linkend="SQL-CREATERULE"><command>CREATE RULE</></link> actions (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <command>FOREACH IN ARRAY</> to plpgsql to allow array interation
+ Add <link linkend="plpgsql-foreach-array"><command>FOREACH IN ARRAY</></link> to plpgsql to allow array interation
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow generic record arguments to plperl functions (Andrew
+ Allow generic record arguments to PL/Perl functions (Andrew
Dunstan)
</para>
</para>
<para>
- The functions are plpy.quote_ident, plpy.quote_literal, and
- plpy.quote_nullable.
+ The functions are <link linkend="plpython-util"><literal>plpy.quote_ident</></link>, <link linkend="plpython-util"><literal>plpy.quote_literal</></link>, and
+ <link linkend="plpython-util"><literal>plpy.quote_nullable</></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Mark createlang and droplang as deprecated now that they use the
+ Mark <link linkend="APP-CREATELANG"><application>createlang</></link> and <link linkend="APP-DROPLANG"><application>droplang</></link> as deprecated now that they use the
extension framework (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the
\conninfo command to <application>psql</>, to show current connection
+ Add the
<literal>\conninfo</> command to <application>psql</>, to show current connection
information (David Christensen)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <application>psql</>'s \e and \ef commands to accept a line number to
+ Allow <application>psql</>'s <literal>\e</> and <literal>\ef</> commands to accept a line number to
be used to position the cursor in the editor (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <application>psql</> command \sf command to show a function's definition
+ Add <application>psql</> command <literal>\sf</> command to show a function's definition
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add system table ("S") option to <application>psql</> \dn (schemas) (Tom Lane)
+ Add system table <option>S</> option to <application>psql</> <literal>\dn</> (schemas) (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
- \dn without "S" now suppresses system schemas.
+ <literal>\dn</> without <literal>S</> now suppresses system schemas.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new <application>psql</> \dL command \dL to list languages (Fernando Ike)
+ Add new <application>psql</> <literal>\dL</> command <literal>\dL</> to list languages (Fernando Ike)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_dumpall</>
+ Add <link linkend="APP-PGDUMP"><application>pg_dump</></link> and <link linkend="APP-PG-DUMPALL"><application>pg_dumpall</></link>
option <option>--quote-all-identifiers</> to force quoting
of all identifiers (Robert Haas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add 'directory' format to <application>pg_dump</> (Joachim Wieland, Heikki
+ Add <literal>directory</> format to <link linkend="APP-PG-DUMPALL"><application>pg_dump</></link> (Joachim Wieland, Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <application>pg_ctl</> so it no longer incorrectly reports that the server
+ Fix <link linkend="app-pg-ctl"><application>pg_ctl</></link> so it no longer incorrectly reports that the server
is not running (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve <application>pg_ctl</> start's "wait" mode to handle non-standard port
+ Improve <link linkend="app-pg-ctl"><application>pg_ctl</></link> start's "wait"
+ (<option>-w</>) mode to handle non-standard port
numbers, non-standard unix-domain socket locations, permission
problems, and stale postmaster lock files (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add 'promote' option to <application>pg_ctl</> to change a standby server to
+ Add <literal>promote</> option to <link linkend="app-pg-ctl"><application>pg_ctl</></link> to change a standby server to
primary (Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- The value 'auto' sets the client encoding based on the operating
+ The value <literal>auto</> sets the client encoding based on the operating
system locale.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>PQlibVersion()</> function which returns the libpq library
+ Add <link linkend="libpq-pqlibversion"><function>PQlibVersion()</></link> function which returns the libpq library
version (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow libpq database clients to use Unix-domain sockets to
- check the user name of the server process using requirepeer
+ check the user name of the server process using <link linkend="libpq-connect-requirepeer"><literal>requirepeer</></link>
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add PQping and PQpingParams to libpq (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
+ Add <link linkend="libpq-pqping"><function>PQping()</></link> and <link linkend="libpq-pqpingparams"><function>PQpingParams()</></link> to libpq (Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add extensions which allow packaged additions to Postgres
+ Add <link linkend="extension">extensions</link> which allow packaged additions to <productname>PostgreSQL</>
(Dimitri Fontaine, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is controlled by the new
- <command>CREATE</>/<command>ALTER</>/<command>DROP EXTENSION
- </> command; this replaces a more manual method of adding
+ <link linkend="SQL-CREATEEXTENSION"><command>CREATE</></link>/<link linkend="SQL-ALTEREXTENSION"><command>ALTER</></link>/<link linkend="SQL-DROPEXTENSION"><command>DROP EXTENSION
+ </></link> command; this replaces a more manual method of adding
features to <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Require GNU <application>make</> 3.80 or newer (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Require GNU <link linkend="install-requirements"><application>make</></link> 3.80 or newer (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- On Windows, allow <application>pg_ctl</> to register the service as auto-start
+ On Windows, allow <link linkend="app-pg-ctl"><application>pg_ctl</></link> to register the service as auto-start
or start-on-demand (Quan Zongliang)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for collecting crash dumps on Windows (Craig
+ Add support for collecting <link linkend="windows-crash-dumps">crash dumps</link> on Windows (Craig
Ringer, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve ability to use C++ compilers for backend compiles by
+ Improve ability to use C++ compilers for <link linkend="xfunc-c">backend compiles</link> by
removing conflicting keywords (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Run regression tests in the default encoding (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Run <link linkend="build">regression tests</link> in the default encoding (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <filename>src/tools/git_changelog</> to replace
- <command>cvs2cl</> and <command>pgcvslog</> (Robert Haas,
+ Add <application>src/tools/git_changelog</> to replace
+ <application>cvs2cl</> and <application>pgcvslog</> (Robert Haas,
Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add git-external-diff script to <filename>src/tools</> (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add <application>git-external-diff</> script to <filename>src/tools</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Modify /contrib modules and stored procedure languages to
- install via the new extension mechanism (Tom Lane, Dimitri
+ Modify <filename>/contrib</> modules and stored procedure languages to
+ install via the new <link linkend="extension">extension</link> mechanism (Tom Lane, Dimitri
Fontaine)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <filename>contrib/file_fdw</> foreign-data wrapper for reading files
+ Add <link linkend="file-fdw"><filename>contrib/file_fdw</></link> foreign-data wrapper for reading files
via <command>COPY </>(Shigeru Hanada)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add nearest-neighbor support to <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</> and
- <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> (Teodor Sigaev)
+ Add nearest-neighbor support to <link linkend="pgtrgm"><filename>contrib/pg_trgm</></link> and
+ <link linkend="btree-gist"><filename>contrib/btree_gist</></link> (Teodor Sigaev)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <filename>contrib/btree_gist</> support for searching on not equals
+ Add <link linkend="btree-gist"><filename>contrib/btree_gist</></link> support for searching on not equals
(Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</>'s <function>levenshtein()</> function handle
+ Allow <link linkend="fuzzystrmatch"><filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</></link>'s <function>levenshtein()</> function handle
multi-byte characters (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>ssl_cipher()</> and <function>ssl_version()</> functions to <filename>contrib/sslinfo</>
+ Add <function>ssl_cipher()</> and <function>ssl_version()</> functions to <link linkend="sslinfo"><filename>contrib/sslinfo</></link>
(Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <filename>contrib/intarray</> and <filename>contrib/hstore</> to give consistent
+ Fix <link linkend="intarray"><filename>contrib/intarray</></link> and <link linkend="hstore"><filename>contrib/hstore</></link> to give consistent
results with indexed empty arrays (Tom Lane)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- In <filename>contrib/xml2</>, remove arbitrary limit on the number of
+ In <link linkend="xml2"><filename>contrib/xml2</></link>, remove arbitrary limit on the number of
parameter=value pairs that can be handled by <function>xslt_process()</>
(Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <filename>contrib/sepgsql</> to interface permission checks with SE-Linux
+ Add <link linkend="sepgsql"><filename>contrib/sepgsql</></link> to interface permission checks with SE-Linux
(KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
- This uses the new <command>SECURITY LABEL</> facility.
+ This uses the new <link linkend="SQL-SECURITY-LABEL"><command>SECURITY LABEL</></link> facility.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- New contrib module, auth_delay (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Add contrib module <link linkend="auth-delay"><filename>auth_delay</></link> (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add dummy_seclabel contrib module (KaiGai Kohei)
+ Add <link linkend="dummy-seclabel">dummy_seclabel</link> contrib module (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for <literal>LIKE</> and <literal>ILIKE</> index searches to <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</>
+ Add support for <literal>LIKE</> and <literal>ILIKE</> index searches to <link linkend="pgtrgm"><filename>contrib/pg_trgm</></link>
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>levenshtein_less_equal()</> function, which is optimized for
+ Add <function>levenshtein_less_equal()</> function to <link linkend="fuzzystrmatch"><filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</></link>, which is optimized for
small distances (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of index lookups on <filename>contrib/seg columns</>
+ Improve performance of index lookups on <link linkend="seg"><filename>contrib/seg</></link> columns
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve performance of <application>pg_upgrade</> for databases with many
+ Improve performance of <link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</></link> for databases with many
relations (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add flag to pgbench to report per-statement latencies (Florian
+ Add flag to <link linkend="pgbench"><filename>contrib/pgbench</></link> to report per-statement latencies (Florian
Pflug)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Move <filename>src/tools/test_fsync</> to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce
+ Move <filename>src/tools/test_fsync</> to <link linkend="pgtestfsync"><filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</></link> (Bruce
Momjian, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>O_DIRECT</> support to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add <literal>O_DIRECT</> support to <link linkend="pgtestfsync"><filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</></link> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- This matches the use of <literal>O_DIRECT</> by wal_sync_method.
+ This matches the use of <literal>O_DIRECT</> by <link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add new tests to <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</> (Bruce Momjian)
+ Add new tests to <link linkend="pgtestfsync"><filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</></link> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Extensive ECPG documentation improvements (Satoshi Nagayasu)
+ Extensive <link linkend="ecpg">ECPG documentation</link> improvements (Satoshi Nagayasu)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add documentation for exit_on_error (Robert Haas)
+ Add documentation for <link linkend="guc-exit-on-error"><varname>exit_on_error</></link> (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add documentation for <function>pg_options_to_table()</> (Josh Berkus)
+ Add documentation for <link
+ linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>pg_options_to_table()</></link> (Josh Berkus)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Document that it is possible to access all composite fields
- using (compositeval).* syntax (Peter Eisentraut)
+ using <link linkend="field-selection"><literal>(compositeval).* syntax</></link> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
- Document that <function>translate()</> removes characters in "from" that
- don't have a corresponding "to" character (Josh Kupershmidt)
+ Document that <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>translate()</></link> removes characters in <literal>from</> that
+ don't have a corresponding <literal>to</> character (Josh Kupershmidt)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Merge docs for <command>CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER</> and
- <command>CREATE TRIGGER</>(Alvaro Herrera)
+ <link linkend="SQL-CREATETRIGGER"><command>CREATE TRIGGER</></link> (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Centralize permission and upgrade documentation (Bruce Momjian)
+ Centralize <link linkend="ddl-priv">permission</link> and <link linkend="upgrading">upgrade</link> documentation (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add kernel tuning docs for Solaris 10 (Josh Berkus)
+ Add <link linkend="sysvipc-parameters">kernel tuning documentation</link> for Solaris 10 (Josh Berkus)
</para>
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