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Commit a3f42e85 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Update 9.6 release notes through today.

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<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2016-??-??</simpara>
<simpara>Current as of 2016-05-08 (commit 6f69b9639)</simpara>
<simpara>Current as of 2016-06-18 (commit 100340e2d)</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
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2016-04-05 [11c8669c0] Add parallel query support functions for assorted aggreg
2016-04-08 [25fe8b5f1] Add a 'parallel_degree' reloption.
2016-04-27 [59eb55127] Fix EXPLAIN VERBOSE output for parallel aggregate.
2016-06-09 [c9ce4a1c6] Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology.
2016-06-16 [75be66464] Invent min_parallel_relation_size GUC to replace a hard-
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<para>
Parallel queries (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, David Rowley, many others)
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configuration parameters
<xref linkend="guc-max-parallel-workers-per-gather">,
<xref linkend="guc-force-parallel-mode">,
<xref linkend="guc-parallel-setup-cost">, and
<xref linkend="guc-parallel-tuple-cost">.
<xref linkend="guc-parallel-setup-cost">,
<xref linkend="guc-parallel-tuple-cost">, and
<xref linkend="guc-min-parallel-relation-size">.
</para>
</listitem>
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2016-03-08 [77a1d1e79] Department of second thoughts: remove PD_ALL_FROZEN.
2016-03-10 [fd31cd265] Don't vacuum all-frozen pages.
2016-03-11 [7087166a8] pg_upgrade: Convert old visibility map format to new for
2016-06-17 [ede62e56f] Add VACUUM (DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) for emergencies.
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<para>
Avoid re-vacuuming pages containing only frozen tuples
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transaction wraparound prevention. This should greatly reduce the
cost of maintaining large tables containing mostly-unchanging data.
</para>
<para>
If necessary, vacuum can be forced to process all-frozen pages
using its new <literal>DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING</> option. This
should never be needed normally, but it might help for example
in recovering from visibility-map corruption.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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2016-04-26 [72a98a639] Don't open formally non-existent segments in _mdfd_getse
2016-05-04 [a71248708] Fix transient mdsync() errors of truncated relations due
2016-02-16 [7975c5e0a] Allow the WAL writer to flush WAL at a reduced rate.
2016-06-10 [4bc0f165c] Change default of backend_flush_after GUC to 0 (disabled
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<para>
Where feasible, trigger kernel writeback after a configurable number
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-04-08 [137805f89] Use Foreign Key relationships to infer multi-column join
2016-06-07 [77ba61080] Revert "Use Foreign Key relationships to infer multi-col
2016-06-18 [100340e2d] Restore foreign-key-aware estimation of join relation si
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<para>
Use foreign key relationships to infer selectivity for multi-column
Use foreign key relationships to infer selectivity for
join predicates (Tomas Vondra, David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
If a table <literal>t</> has a multi-column foreign key restriction,
If a table <literal>t</> has a foreign key restriction,
say <literal>(a,b) REFERENCES r (x,y)</>, then a <literal>WHERE</>
condition such as <literal>t.a = r.x AND t.b = r.y</> cannot select
more than one <literal>r</> row per <literal>t</> row. The planner
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-04-08 [5c3c3cd0a] Enhanced custom error in PLPythonu
2016-06-11 [020140d84] PL/Python: Rename new keyword arguments of plpy.error()
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<para>
Extend PL/Python's error-reporting and message-reporting functions to
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-03-21 [dea2b5960] Improve header output from psql's \watch command.
2016-06-15 [9901d8ac2] Use strftime("%c") to format timestamps in psql's \watch
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<para>
Improve the headers output by the <command>\watch</> command
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Include the <command>\pset title</> string if one has been set, and
shorten the prefabricated part of the header to be
<literal><replaceable>timestamp</> (every <replaceable>N</>s)</literal>.
Also, the timestamp format now obeys <application>psql</>'s locale
environment.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-04-21 [f039eaac7] Allow queries submitted by postgres_fdw to be canceled.
2016-05-16 [1b812afb0] Fix multiple problems in postgres_fdw query cancellation
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<para>
Transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server
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