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Commit 7ae6163a authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas
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Rearrange "big features" section of the release notes.

Josh Berkus
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<sect1 id="release-9-0">
<title>Release 9.0</title>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for compiling on <link
linkend="install-win32-full">64-bit
<productname>Windows</></link> and running in 64-bit
mode.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Broadly enhanced stored procedure support.
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
More advanced reporting queries with additional windowing functions
(PRECEDING and FOLLOWING) and the ability to ORDER BY inside aggregate
functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Triggers now support two new features,
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<listitem>
<para>
Exclusion constraints let database designers define uniqueness
based on complex criteria, including for non-scalar data such
as time periods, ranges and arrays.
New and enhanced security features, including RADIUS authentication,
LDAP authentication improvements, and the new checkpassword optional module
for testing password strength.
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
to support in-place upgrades from 8.3 or 8.4 to 9.0.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Multiple performance enhancements for specific types of queries,
including join elimination, which optimizes automatically generated
queries, such as those produced by object-relational mappers (ORMs).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Exclusion constraints let database designers define uniqueness
based on complex criteria, including for non-scalar data such
as time periods, ranges and arrays.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
As part of our decade-long effort to eliminate the pain of VACUUM,
<command>VACUUM FULL</> is now substantially faster by
<command>VACUUM FULL</> is not substantially faster by
rewriting the entire table and
indexes, rather than moving around single rows to compact space.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Add support for compiling on <link
linkend="install-win32-full">64-bit
<productname>Windows</></link> and running in 64-bit
mode.
EXPLAIN plans are now available in JSON, XML and YAML format, and include
buffer utilization and other data not previously available.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
to support in-place upgrades from 8.3 or 8.4 to 9.0.
The HStore optional module has been improved with new functions and greater
data capacity to make it a high-performance key-value store.
</para>
</listitem>
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