-->
<para>
- Have <application>pg_dump</application> dump all aspects of a
- database (Haribabu Kommi)
+ Have <link
+ linkend="app-pgdump"><application>pg_dump</application></link>
+ dump all aspects of a database (Haribabu Kommi)
</para>
<para>
Previously database attributes like
- <command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command> permissions
- and <command>ALTER DATABASE SET</command> and <command>ALTER
- ROLE IN DATABASE SET</command> variable settings were only dumped
- by <application>pg_dumpall</application>. Now <command>pg_dump
- --create</command> and <command>pg_restore --create</command> will
- restore all database aspects. <command>pg_dumpall -g</command>
- will now only output role and tablespace-related attributes.
+ <command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command> permissions and
+ <command>ALTER DATABASE SET</command> and <command>ALTER ROLE IN
+ DATABASE SET</command> variable settings were only dumped by <link
+ linkend="app-pg-dumpall"><application>pg_dumpall</application></link>.
+ Now <command>pg_dump --create</command> and
+ <command>pg_restore --create</command> will restore all
+ database aspects. <command>pg_dumpall -g</command> will
+ now only output role and tablespace-related attributes.
<application>pg_dumpall</application>'s output (without
<option>-g</option>) is unchanged.
</para>
-->
<para>
- Correct information schema column
- <structname>tables</structname>.<structfield>table_type</structfield>
+ Correct information schema column <link
+ linkend="infoschema-tables"><structname>tables</structname>.<structfield>table_type</structfield></link>
to return <literal>FOREIGN</literal> instead of <literal>FOREIGN
TABLE</literal> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
-->
<para>
- Change the ps process display labels to match the
- <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname>.<structfield>backend_type</structfield>
+ Change the ps process display labels to match the <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</structname>.<structfield>backend_type</structfield></link>
labels (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Prevent <function>to_number()</function> from consuming characters
- when the template separator does not match (Oliver Ford)
+ Prevent <link
+ linkend="functions-formatting-numeric-table"><function>to_number()</function></link>
+ from consuming characters when the template separator does not
+ match (Oliver Ford)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Fix <function>to_date()</function>,
+ Fix <link
+ linkend="functions-formatting"><function>to_date()</function></link>,
<function>to_number()</function>, and
<function>to_timestamp()</function> to skip a character for each
template character (Tom Lane)
-->
<para>
- Have libpq's <function>PQhost()</function> always return the
- actual connected host (Hari Babu)
+ Have libpq's <link
+ linkend="libpq-pqhost"><function>PQhost()</function></link>
+ always return the actual connected host (Hari Babu)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Remove relhaspkey column from system table
- <structname>pg_class</structname> (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Remove <structfield>relhaspkey</structfield> column from system
+ table <structname>pg_class</structname> (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Cause large object permission checks to happen on large object
- open, <function>lo_open()</function>, not read/write (Tom Lane)
+ Cause large object permission checks
+ to happen on large object open, <link
+ linkend="lo-open"><function>lo_open()</function></link>, not
+ read/write (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- These function are now present by default. Old adminpack installs
- will continue to have access to these functions until they are
- updated via <command>ALTER EXTENSION ... UPDATE</command>.
+ These function are now present by default. Old <link
+ linkend="adminpack"><application>adminpack</application></link>
+ installs will continue to have access to these functions until
+ they are updated via <command>ALTER EXTENSION ... UPDATE</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
+2017-09-29 [8b304b8b7] Remove replacement selection sort.
+-->
+
+ <para>
+ Remove server variable <varname>replacement_sort_tuples</varname>
+ (Peter Geoghegan)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Replacement sorts were determined to be no longer useful.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2018-01-26 [4971d2a32] Remove the obsolete WITH clause of CREATE FUNCTION.
-->
<para>
- Remove <literal>WITH</literal> clause in <command>CREATE
- FUNCTION</command> (Michael Paquier)
+ Remove <literal>WITH</literal> clause in <link
+ linkend="sql-createfunction"><command>CREATE
+ FUNCTION</command></link> (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
- The new command <command>ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION</command>
- allows indexes to be attached to partitions. This does not behave
- as a global index since the contents are private to each index.
- WARN WHEN USING AN EXISTING INDEX?
+ The new command <link linkend="sql-alterindex"><command>ALTER
+ INDEX ATTACH PARTITION</command></link> allows indexes to be
+ attached to partitions. This does not behave as a global index
+ since the contents are private to each index. WARN WHEN USING
+ AN EXISTING INDEX?
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This features is disabled by default but can be enabled by changing
- <varname>enable_partitionwise_join</varname>.
+ This features is disabled by default
+ but can be enabled by changing <link
+ linkend="guc-enable-partitionwise-join"><varname>enable_partitionwise_join</varname></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This features is disabled by default but can be enabled by changing
- <varname>enable_partitionwise_aggregate</varname>.
+ This features is disabled by default
+ but can be enabled by changing <link
+ linkend="guc-enable-partitionwise-aggregate"><varname>enable_partitionwise_aggregate</varname></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>postgres_fdw</application> to push down
- aggregates to foreign tables that are partitions (Jeevan Chalke)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="postgres-fdw"><application>postgres_fdw</application></link>
+ to push down aggregates to foreign tables that are partitions
+ (Jeevan Chalke)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow indexes to be built in parallel (Peter Geoghegan, Rushabh
- Lathia, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ Allow btree indexes to be built in parallel (Peter Geoghegan,
+ Rushabh Lathia, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add server option <varname>parallel_leader_participation</varname>
+ Add server option <link
+ linkend="guc-parallel-leader-participation"><varname>parallel_leader_participation</varname></link>
to control if the leader executes subplans (Thomas Munro)
</para>
-->
<para>
- Allow indexes to <literal>INCLUDE</literal> columns that are not
- part of the unique constraint but are available for index-only
- scans (Anastasia Lubennikova, Alexander Korotkov, Teodor Sigaev)
+ Allow indexes to <link
+ linkend="sql-createindex"><literal>INCLUDE</literal></link> columns
+ that are not part of the unique constraint but are available
+ for index-only scans (Anastasia Lubennikova, Alexander Korotkov,
+ Teodor Sigaev)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Add predicate locking for Hash, GiST and GIN indexes (Shubham
+ Add predicate locking for hash, GiST and GIN indexes (Shubham
Barai)
</para>
</itemizedlist>
<sect5>
- <title>SP-Gist</title>
+ <title><link linkend="spgist">SP-Gist</link></title>
<itemizedlist>
-->
<para>
- Add Just-In-Time (<acronym>JIT</acronym>) compilation of plans
- run the by the executor
-(Andres Freund)
+ Add <link linkend="jit">Just-In-Time</link>
+ (<acronym>JIT</acronym>) compilation of some parts of query plans
+ to improve execution speed (Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
+2018-04-04 [857f9c36c] Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes wh
+-->
+
+ <para>
+ Allow vacuum to avoid unnecesary index scans (Masahiko Sawada,
+ Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2017-09-01 [baaf272ac] Use group updates when setting transaction status in clo
-->
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>postgres_fdw</application> to push
- <command>UPDATE</command>s and <command>DELETE</command>s using
- joins to foreign servers (Etsuro Fujita)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="postgres-fdw"><application>postgres_fdw</application></link>
+ to push <command>UPDATE</command>s and <command>DELETE</command>s
+ using joins to foreign servers (Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Show memory usage in <varname>log_statement_stats</varname>,
+ Show memory usage in <link
+ linkend="runtime-config-statistics-monitor"><varname>log_statement_stats</varname></link>,
<varname>log_parser_stats</varname>,
<varname>log_planner_stats</varname>,
<varname>log_executor_stats</varname> (Justin Pryzby, Peter
-->
<para>
- Add
- <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname>.<structfield>backend_type</structfield>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</structname>.<structfield>backend_type</structfield></link>
now shows the type of background worker (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
-->
<para>
- Have <varname>log_autovacuum_min_duration</varname> log skipped
- tables that are concurrently being dropped (Nathan Bossart)
+ Have <link
+ linkend="guc-log-autovacuum-min-duration"><varname>log_autovacuum_min_duration</varname></link>
+ log skipped tables that are concurrently being dropped (Nathan
+ Bossart)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect5>
- <title>Information Schema</title>
+ <title><link linkend="infoschema-tables">Information Schema</link></title>
<itemizedlist>
-->
<para>
- Add libpq option to support channel binding when using
- <acronym>SCRAM</acronym> authentication (Michael Paquier)
+ Add libpq option to support channel binding when using <link
+ linkend="auth-password"><acronym>SCRAM</acronym></link>
+ authentication (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
- Channel binding requires the server end of
- the <acronym>TLS</acronym> connection to prove
- that it knows the password. The options are
- <option>scram_channel_binding=tls-unique</option> and
- <option>scram_channel_binding=tls-server-end-point</option>.
+ Channel binding requires the server end
+ of the <acronym>TLS</acronym> connection to
+ prove that it knows the password. The options are <link
+ linkend="libpq-scram-channel-binding"><option>scram_channel_binding=tls-unique</option></link>
+ and <option>scram_channel_binding=tls-server-end-point</option>.
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow the server to specify more complex <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
- specifications in search+bind mode (Thomas Munro)
+ Allow the server to specify more complex <link
+ linkend="auth-ldap"><acronym>LDAP</acronym></link> specifications
+ in search+bind mode (Thomas Munro)
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
- Specifically, the new roles are:
- <literal>pg_read_server_files</literal>,
+ Specifically, the new roles are: <link
+ linkend="default-roles-table"><literal>pg_read_server_files</literal></link>,
<literal>pg_write_server_files</literal>,
- <literal>pg_execute_server_program</literal>. These roles now
- also control who can use <command>COPY</command> and extension
- <application>file_fdw</application>. Previously only super-users
- could use these functions, and that is still the default behavior.
+ <literal>pg_execute_server_program</literal>. These roles now also
+ control who can use <command>COPY</command> and extension <link
+ linkend="file-fdw"><application>file_fdw</application></link>.
+ Previously only super-users could use these functions, and that
+ is still the default behavior.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Specifically, these functions were
- modified: <function>pg_ls_dir()</function>,
+ Specifically, these functions were modified: <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_ls_dir()</function></link>,
<function>pg_read_file()</function>,
<function>pg_read_binary_file()</function>,
<function>pg_stat_file()</function>.
<para>
Use <command>GRANT</command>/<command>REVOKE</command>
- to control access to <function>lo_import()</function> and
- <function>lo_export()</function> (Michael Paquier)
+ to control access to <link
+ linkend="lo-import"><function>lo_import()</function></link>
+ and <function>lo_export()</function> (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
- Compile-time option ALLOW_DANGEROUS_LO_FUNCTIONS has been removed.
+ Compile-time option <literal>ALLOW_DANGEROUS_LO_FUNCTIONS</literal>
+ has been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Use view owner not session owner when preventing non-password
- access to <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables
- (Robert Haas)
+ Use view owner not session owner when
+ preventing non-password access to <link
+ linkend="postgres-fdw"><application>postgres_fdw</application></link>
+ tables (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> only allows super-users to
access <application>postgres_fdw</application> tables without
- passwords, e.g. via peer. Previously the session owner had to
- be a super-user to allow such access; now the view owner is
- checked instead.
+ passwords, e.g. via <literal>peer</literal>. Previously the
+ session owner had to be a super-user to allow such access; now
+ the view owner is checked instead.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add server setting <varname>ssl_passphrase_command</varname> to
- allow supplying of the the passphrase for <acronym>SSL</acronym>
+ Add server setting <link
+ linkend="guc-ssl-passphrase-command"><varname>ssl_passphrase_command</varname></link>
+ to allow supplying of the the passphrase for <acronym>SSL</acronym>
key files (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- Also add <varname>ssl_passphrase_command_supports_reload</varname>
+ Also add <link
+ linkend="guc-ssl-passphrase-command-supports-reload"><varname>ssl_passphrase_command_supports_reload</varname></link>
to specify whether the the <acronym>SSL</acronym> configuration
should be reloaded and <varname>ssl_passphrase_command</varname>
called during a server configuration reload.
-->
<para>
- Add server variable <varname>toast_tuple_target</varname>
+ Add storage parameter <link
+ linkend="sql-createtable-storage-parameters"><varname>toast_tuple_target</varname></link>
to control the minimum length before <acronym>TOAST</acronym>
storage will be considered for new rows (Simon Riggs)
</para>
-->
<para>
- Add timeline information to the <filename>backup_label</filename>
+ Add timeline information to the <link
+ linkend="backup-lowlevel-base-backup"><filename>backup_label</filename></link>
file (Simon Riggs)
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>Window Functions</title>
+ <title><link linkend="sql-window">Window Functions</link></title>
<itemizedlist>
<para>
Add casts from jsonb scalars to numeric and boolean data types
-(Anastasia Lubennikova)
+ (Anastasia Lubennikova)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add <acronym>SHA</acronym>-2 family of hash functions (Peter
+ Add <acronym>SHA-2</acronym> family of hash functions (Peter
Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- Specifically, <function>sha224()</function>,
+ Specifically, <link
+ linkend="functions-binarystring-other"><function>sha224()</function></link>,
<function>sha256()</function>, <function>sha384()</function>,
<function>sha512()</function> were added.
</para>
</para>
<para>
- This is done with format specifications <literal>TZH</literal>
+ This is done with format specifications <link
+ linkend="functions-formatting-datetime-table"><literal>TZH</literal></link>
and <literal>TZM</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add text search function
- <function>websearch_to_tsquery()</function> that supports a queries
- syntax similar to that used by web search engines (Victor Drobny,
- Dmitry Ivanov)
+ Add text search function <link
+ linkend="textsearch-functions-table"><function>websearch_to_tsquery()</function></link>
+ that supports a queries syntax similar to that used by web search
+ engines (Victor Drobny, Dmitry Ivanov)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add function <function>json(b)_to_tsvector()</function> to create
- text search query for matching <type>JSON</type>/<type>JSONB
- </type>values (Dmitry Dolgov)
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="textsearch-functions-table"><function>json(b)_to_tsvector()</function></link>
+ to create text search query for matching
+ <type>JSON</type>/<type>JSONB </type>values (Dmitry Dolgov)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Add SQL procedures, which can start and commit their own
- transactions
-(Peter Eisentraut)
+ transactions (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
- They are created with the new <command>CREATE PROCEDURE</command>
- command and invoked via <command>CALL</command>. The new
+ They are created with the new <link
+ linkend="sql-createprocedure"><command>CREATE
+ PROCEDURE</command></link> command and invoked via <link
+ linkend="sql-call"><command>CALL</command></link>. The new
<command>ALTER</command>/<command>DROP ROUTINE</command> commands
allows altering/dropping of procedures, functions, and aggregates.
</para>
-->
<para>
- Add extension <application>jsonb_plperl</application> to
- transform <type>JSONB </type>to/from PL/Perl types (Anthony Bykov)
+ Add extension <application>jsonb_plperl</application> to transform
+ <type>JSONB </type>to/from PL/Perl types (Anthony Bykov)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- The libpq connection parameter is called replication.
+ The libpq connection parameter is called <link
+ linkend="libpq-connect-replication"><option>replication</option></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow 'quit' and 'exit' to exit <application>psql</application>
- when used in an empty buffer (Bruce Momjian)
+ Allow <command>quit</command> and <command>exit</command> to
+ exit <application>psql</application> when used in an empty buffer
+ (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- Also add hints of how to exit when 'quit' and 'exit' are used alone
- on a line in a non-empty buffer. Add a similar hint for 'help'.
+ Also add hints of how to exit when <command>quit</command> and
+ <command>exit</command> are used alone on a line in a non-empty
+ buffer. Add a similar hint for <command>help</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Have <application>psql</application> hint at using control-D when
- \q is entered alone on a line but ignored (Bruce Momjian)
+ Have <application>psql</application> hint at using control-D
+ when <command>\q</command> is entered alone on a line but ignored
+ (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
- For example, \q does not exit when supplied in character strings.
+ For example, <command>\q</command> does not exit when supplied
+ in character strings.
</para>
</listitem>
</sect4>
<sect4>
- <title><xref linkend="pgbench"/></title>
+ <title><link linkend="pgbench"><xref linkend="pgbench"/></link></title>
<itemizedlist>
-->
<para>
- Add pgbench expressions support for NULLs, booleans, and some
- functions and operators (Fabien Coelho)
+ Add <application>pgbench</application> expressions support for
+ NULLs, booleans, and some functions and operators (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add \if conditional support to pgbench (Fabien Coelho)
+ Add <literal>\if</literal> conditional support to
+ <application>pgbench</application> (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Allow the use of non-<acronym>ASCII</acronym> characters in
- pgbench variable names (Fabien Coelho)
+ <application>pgbench</application> variable names (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add pgbench option <option>--init-steps</option> to control the
- initialization steps performed (Masahiko Sawada)
+ Add <application>pgbench</application> option
+ <option>--init-steps</option> to control the initialization steps
+ performed (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add approximated Zipfian-distributed random generator to pgbench
- (Alik Khilazhev)
+ Add approximated Zipfian-distributed random generator to
+ <application>pgbench</application> (Alik Khilazhev)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow the random seed to be set in pgbench (Fabien Coelho)
+ Allow the random seed to be set in
+ <application>pgbench</application> (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow pgbench to do exponentiation with <function>pow()</function>
- and <function>power()</function> (Raúl Marín
- Rodríguez)
+ Allow <application>pgbench</application> to do exponentiation
+ with <function>pow()</function> and <function>power()</function>
+ (Raúl Marín Rodríguez)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add hashing functions to pgbench (Ildar Musin)
+ Add hashing functions to <application>pgbench</application>
+ (Ildar Musin)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Make pgbench statistics more accurate when using
- <option>--latency-limit</option> and <option>--rate</option>
- (Fabien Coelho)
+ Make <application>pgbench</application> statistics more
+ accurate when using <option>--latency-limit</option> and
+ <option>--rate</option> (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add <application>pg_basebackup</application> option to create a
- named replication slot (Michael Banck)
+ Add <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>
+ option to create a named replication slot (Michael Banck)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow initdb to set group read access to the data directory
- (David Steele)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-initdb"><application>initdb</application></link>
+ to set group read access to the data directory (David Steele)
</para>
<para>
This is accomplished with the initdb
<option>--allow-group-access</option> flag. Administrators
can also set group permissions on the empty data
- directory before running initdb. Server variable
- <varname>data_directory_mode</varname> allows reading of data
- directory group permissions.
+ directory before running initdb. Server variable <link
+ linkend="guc-data-directory"><varname>data_directory_mode</varname></link>
+ allows reading of data directory group permissions.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add <application>pg_verify_checksums</application> tool to verify
- database checksums while offline (Magnus Hagander)
+ Add <link
+ linkend="pgverifychecksums"><application>pg_verify_checksums</application></link>
+ tool to verify database checksums while offline (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>pg_resetwal</application> to
- change the <acronym>WAL</acronym> segment size via
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-pgresetwal"><application>pg_resetwal</application></link>
+ to change the <acronym>WAL</acronym> segment size via
<option>--wal-segsize</option> (Nathan Bossart)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add <application>pg_receivewal</application> option
- <option>--no-sync</option> to prevent synchronous
+ Add <link
+ linkend="app-pgreceivewal"><application>pg_receivewal</application></link>
+ option <option>--no-sync</option> to prevent synchronous
<acronym>WAL</acronym> writes (Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>pg_ctl</application> to send the
- <literal>SIGKILL</literal> signal to processes (Andres Freund)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-pg-ctl"><application>pg_ctl</application></link>
+ to send the <literal>SIGKILL</literal> signal to processes
+ (Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Reduce the number of files copied by
- <application>pg_rewind</application> (Michael Paquier)
+ Reduce the number of files copied by <link
+ linkend="app-pgrewind"><application>pg_rewind</application></link>
+ (Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-2018-03-20 [5b2526c83] Add configure infrastructure (- -with-llvm) to enable LLV
--->
-
- <para>
- Add configure flag <option>--with-llvm</option> to test for
- <acronym>LLVM</acronym> support (Andres Freund)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
-<!--
-2018-03-20 [6869b4f25] Add C++ support to configure.
--->
-
- <para>
- Have configure check for the availability of a C++ compiler
- (Andres Freund)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
-<!--
2017-09-06 [1c53f612b] Escape < and & in SGML
2017-10-17 [c29c57890] Don't use SGML empty tags
2017-10-20 [1ff01b390] Convert SGML IDs to lower case
</para>
<para>
- The file names still use an 'sgml' extension for compatibility
- with back branches.
+ The file names still use an <filename>sgml</filename> extension
+ for compatibility with back branches.
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Make the computation of system column
<structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltuples</structfield>
- consistent
-(Tomas Vondra)
+ consistent (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Update to use perltidy version 20170521 (Tom Lane)
+ Update to use <application>perltidy</application> version
+ <literal>20170521</literal> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
-<!--
-2017-09-29 [8b304b8b7] Remove replacement selection sort.
--->
-
- <para>
- Remove the ability to perform replacement sorts (Peter Geoghegan)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Replacement sorts were determined to be no longer useful.
- Also remove server variable replacement sorts.
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
-->
<para>
- Allow extension <application>pg_prewarm</application> to restore
- the previous shared buffer contents on startup (Mithun Cy,
- Robert Haas)
+ Allow extension <link
+ linkend="pgprewarm"><application>pg_prewarm</application></link>
+ to restore the previous shared buffer contents on startup (Mithun
+ Cy, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Add pgtrgm function <function>strict_word_similarity()</function>
- to compute the similarity of whole words (Alexander Korotkov)
+ Add <link linkend="pgtrgm"><application>pgtrgm</application></link>
+ function <function>strict_word_similarity()</function> to compute
+ the similarity of whole words (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow creation of indexes on citext-extension columns that can
- be used by <literal>LIKE</literal> comparisons (Alexey Chernyshov)
+ Allow creation of indexes on <link
+ linkend="citext"><application>citext</application></link> extension
+ columns that can be used by <literal>LIKE</literal> comparisons
+ (Alexey Chernyshov)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>btree_gin</application> to index
- <type>bool</type>, <type>bpchar</type>, <type>name</type> and
- <type>uuid</type> data types (Matheus Oliveira)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="btree-gin"><application>btree_gin</application></link>
+ to index <type>bool</type>, <type>bpchar</type>, <type>name</type>
+ and <type>uuid</type> data types (Matheus Oliveira)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow cube and seg extensions using GiST indexes to perform
- index-only scans (Andrey Borodin)
+ Allow <link linkend="cube"><application>cube</application></link>
+ and <link linkend="seg"><application>seg</application></link>
+ extensions using GiST indexes to perform index-only scans
+ (Andrey Borodin)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This is useful for knn-gist searches. HOW?
+ This is useful for KNN-GiST searches. HOW?
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add Vietnamese letter detection to the unaccent extension (Dang
- Minh Huong, Michael Paquier)
+ Add Vietnamese letter detection to the <link
+ linkend="unaccent"><application>unaccent</application></link>
+ extension (Dang Minh Huong, Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Enhance contrib/amcheck to check that each heap tuple has an
- index entry
-(Peter Geoghegan)
+ Enhance <link
+ linkend="amcheck"><application>amcheck</application></link>
+ to check that each heap tuple has an index entry (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Have contrib/adminpack use the new default file system access roles
- (Stephen Frost)
+ Have <link
+ linkend="adminpack"><application>adminpack</application></link>
+ use the new default file system access roles (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Install errcodes.txt to provide access to the error codes reported
- by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> (Thomas Munro)
+ Install <filename>errcodes.txt</filename> to provide access to
+ the error codes reported by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ (Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx since they are no longer
- recommended (Tom Lane)
+ Remove <filename>contrib/start-scripts/osx</filename> since they
+ are no longer recommended (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
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