From 6575920fa565419471b4a0ca6c1a6ec87ff8c838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:35:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] More incremental improvements for the release notes.
---
doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 9e55f6858d9..5207d78e3f2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.456 2006/09/25 15:31:50 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.457 2006/09/25 15:35:28 neilc Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Query enhancements including <literal>RETURNING</literal>
+ Query language enhancements including <literal>RETURNING</literal>
values, multi-<literal>VALUES</literal>, support, and
self-joins for <command>DELETE</command>
</para>
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<para>
Index creation without blocking concurrent
<command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</>
- commands
+ operations
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Array and aggregate improvements, including SQL:2003
+ Array and aggregate improvements, including SQL:2003
statistical functions
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Make command-line options of postmaster and postgres
- identical (Peter)
+ Make command-line options of <application>postmaster</> and
+ <application>postgres</> identical (Peter)
</para>
<para>
@@ -352,13 +352,13 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Change <application>libpq</> <function>PQgetssl()</> to
- return a <literal>void*</>, rather than <literal>SSL*</>
+ return a <literal>void *</>, rather than <literal>SSL *</>
(Martijn van Oosterhout)
</para>
<para>
- This allows applications to use the function without
- <acronym>SSL</> headers.
+ This allows applications to use the function without including
+ the OpenSSL headers.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for multi-row <literal>VALUES</> clauses as
+ Add support for multiple-row <literal>VALUES</> clauses as
part of <command>INSERT</> and <command>SELECT</> statements,
per SQL standard (Joe, Tom)
</para>
@@ -985,8 +985,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
- This allows the tablespace to be specified for the new
- table.
+ This allows a tablespace to be specified for the new table.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1166,8 +1165,8 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
- This is a new locking API compared to what used to be in /contrib.
- The /contrib code is now on pgfoundry.
+ This is a new locking API that is similar to what used to be
+ in /contrib. The /contrib code is now on pgfoundry.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1192,8 +1191,8 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow <command>VACUUM</> to expire rows without being
- affected by other concurrent <command>VACUUM</>s (Hannu
+ Allow <command>VACUUM</> to expire rows without being affected
+ by other concurrent <command>VACUUM</> operations (Hannu
Krossing, Alvaro, Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1252,7 +1251,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
- The file name is controlled by GUC variable
+ The file name is controlled by the GUC variable
<varname>timezone_abbreviations</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1380,7 +1379,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<function>covar_pop()</>, <function>regr_avgx()</>,
<function>regr_avgy()</>, <function>regr_sxy()</>,
<function>regr_sxx()</>, <function>regr_syy()</>,
- <function>regr_count()</>
+ <function>regr_count()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1506,7 +1505,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
- <literal>relname</> is kept but now deprecated
+ <literal>relname</> is kept but now deprecated.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1636,12 +1635,15 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Support retrieving <command>SELECT</> results in batches
- using a cursor (Chris Mair)
+ Support for automatically retrieving <command>SELECT</>
+ results in batches using a cursor (Chris Mair)
</para>
<para>
- This is accomplished using <command>\set FETCH_COUNT</>.
+ This is accomplished using <command>\set FETCH_COUNT</>. This
+ feature allows large result sets to be manipulated in
+ <application>psql</> without needing to buffer the entire
+ result set in memory.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1672,8 +1674,8 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
- Make the line counter 64-bit so it can handle files over
- two billion lines (David Fetter)
+ Make the line counter 64-bit so it can handle files with more
+ than two billion lines (David Fetter)
</para>
</listitem>
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