diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 4db9c81e563e9a29898c662069fb5ee1b88b1329..7c483c6ef340e73750af5775be34188dbcbced9e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -5388,9 +5388,10 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
<title>Process Title</title>
<para>
- These settings control how the process title as seen
- by <command>ps</command> is modified. See <xref linkend="monitoring-ps">
- for details.
+ These settings control how process titles of server processes are
+ modified. Process titles are typically viewed using programs like
+ <application>ps</> or, on Windows, <application>Process Explorer</>.
+ See <xref linkend="monitoring-ps"> for details.
</para>
<variablelist>
@@ -5403,18 +5404,14 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
<listitem>
<para>
Sets the cluster name that appears in the process title for all
- processes in this cluster. The name can be any string of less than
- <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</> characters (64 characters in a standard
+ server processes in this cluster. The name can be any string of less
+ than <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</> characters (64 characters in a standard
build). Only printable ASCII characters may be used in the
<varname>cluster_name</varname> value. Other characters will be
replaced with question marks (<literal>?</literal>). No name is shown
if this parameter is set to the empty string <literal>''</> (which is
the default). This parameter can only be set at server start.
</para>
- <para>
- The process title is typically viewed using programs like
- <application>ps</> or, on Windows, <application>Process Explorer</>.
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -5427,11 +5424,10 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
<listitem>
<para>
Enables updating of the process title every time a new SQL command
- is received by the server. The process title is typically viewed
- by the <command>ps</> command,
- or in Windows by using the <application>Process Explorer</>.
- This value defaults to off on Windows platforms due to the
- platform's significant overhead for updating the process title.
+ is received by the server.
+ This setting defaults to <literal>on</> on most platforms, but it
+ defaults to <literal>off</> on Windows due to that platform's larger
+ overhead for updating the process title.
Only superusers can change this setting.
</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
index 8d7356e27fcfb2c2886aab90f7691f7282068827..6ec7583485fcd615bb24552e77023c12e3ab7aeb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2016-??-??</simpara>
- <simpara>Current as of 2016-08-08 (commit 34927b292)</simpara>
+ <simpara>Current as of 2016-08-27 (commit b9fe6cbc8)</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and psql
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-
+2016-08-16 [f85b1a841] Disable parallel query by default.
-->
<para>
Parallel queries (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, David Rowley,
@@ -365,9 +366,11 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and psql
</para>
<para>
- Use of parallel query execution can be controlled
- through the new configuration parameters <xref
- linkend="guc-max-parallel-workers-per-gather">,
+ Parallel query execution is not (yet) enabled by default.
+ To allow it, set the new configuration
+ parameter <xref linkend="guc-max-parallel-workers-per-gather"> to a
+ value larger than zero. Additional control over use of parallelism
+ is available through other new configuration parameters
<xref linkend="guc-force-parallel-mode">,
<xref linkend="guc-parallel-setup-cost">, <xref
linkend="guc-parallel-tuple-cost">, and <xref
@@ -1030,6 +1033,22 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and psql
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+<!--
+2016-08-17 [9b33c7e80] Disable update_process_title by default on Windows
+-->
+ <para>
+ Disable <xref linkend="guc-update-process-title"> by default on
+ Windows (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The overhead of updating the process title is much larger on Windows
+ than most other platforms, and it is also less useful to do it since
+ most Windows users do not have tools that can display process titles.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
@@ -2431,6 +2450,22 @@ XXX this is pending backpatch, may need to remove
<listitem>
<!--
+2016-08-26 [e796d0aba] Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field to clie
+-->
+ <para>
+ Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field in error and notice
+ messages (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This change allows client code to determine severity of an error or
+ notice without having to worry about localized variants of the
+ severity strings.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2015-09-05 [0426f349e] Rearrange the handling of error context reports.
This commit is also listed under psql and PL/pgSQL
-->
@@ -2957,6 +2992,25 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and PL/pgSQL
<listitem>
<!--
+2016-08-27 [b9fe6cbc8] Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler
+-->
+ <para>
+ Add macros to make <function>AllocSetContextCreate()</> calls simpler
+ and safer (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Writing out the individual sizing parameters for a memory context
+ is now deprecated in favor of using one of the new
+ macros <symbol>ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES</>,
+ <symbol>ALLOCSET_SMALL_SIZES</>,
+ or <symbol>ALLOCSET_START_SMALL_SIZES</>.
+ Existing code continues to work, however.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
2015-08-05 [de6fd1c89] Rely on inline functions even if that causes warnings in
-->
<para>
@@ -3038,19 +3092,24 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and PL/pgSQL
<!--
2016-01-17 [65c5fcd35] Restructure index access method API to hide most of it a
2016-01-21 [be44ed27b] Improve index AMs' opclass validation procedures.
+2016-08-13 [ed0097e4f] Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM pro
-->
<para>
Restructure index access method <acronym>API</> to hide most of
- it at the <application>C</> level (Alexander Korotkov)
+ it at the <application>C</> level (Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
This change modernizes the index <acronym>AM API</> to look more
like the designs we have adopted for foreign data wrappers and
tablesample handlers. This simplifies the <application>C</> code
- and should make it more feasible to define index access methods in
+ and makes it much more practical to define index access methods in
installable extensions. A consequence is that most of the columns
of the <structname>pg_am</> system catalog have disappeared.
+ New <link linkend="functions-info-catalog-table">inspection
+ functions</link> have been added to allow SQL queries to determine
+ index AM properties that used to be discoverable
+ from <structname>pg_am</>.
</para>
</listitem>