From c4314e150dcda40bbffa3b22863733bf57f4ba33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:26:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes for 9.0 beta 3.
---
doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
index 7ed1ead414d..0daaafad414 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.38 2010/07/01 02:33:21 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.39 2010/07/08 22:26:14 momjian Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="release-9-0">
<title>Release 9.0</title>
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.0</title>
- <para>CURRENT AS OF 2010-06-03</para>
+ <para>CURRENT AS OF 2010-07-08</para>
<para>
A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application>
@@ -179,6 +179,14 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Adjust <link
+ linkend="guc-log-temp-files"><varname>log_temp_files</></link> to
+ use default file sizes units of kilobytes (Robert Haas)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -359,18 +367,19 @@
<title>Other Incompatibilities</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>
- Remove support for platforms that don't have a working 64-bit
- integer data type (Tom Lane)
- </para>
+ <para>
+ Remove support for platforms that don't have a working 64-bit
+ integer data type (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
- <para>
- It is believed all still-supported platforms have working 64-bit
- integer data types.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </sect3>
+ <para>
+ It is believed all still-supported platforms have working 64-bit
+ integer data types.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
@@ -569,7 +578,9 @@
</para>
<para>
- This is particularly useful for partitioned tables.
+ This is particularly useful for partitioned tables. However,
+ autovacuum does not yet properly analyze parent tables based on
+ child table changes.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -773,7 +784,6 @@
<link linkend="guc-search-path"><varname>search_path</varname></link>.
</para>
-
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -829,6 +839,19 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Adjust <link
+ linkend="guc-log-temp-files"><varname>log_temp_files</></link> to
+ use default file sizes units of kilobytes (Robert Haas)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously this setting defaulted to bytes if no units were
+ specified.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
@@ -1926,7 +1949,9 @@
<para>
The new server-side language is called <link
- linkend="plpython-python23"><literal>plpython3u</></link>.
+ linkend="plpython-python23"><literal>plpython3u</></link>. This
+ cannot be used in the same backend with the usual
+ <application>Python</> 2 server-side language.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2207,6 +2232,18 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="libpq-keepalives">keepalive settings</link>
+ in libpq (Tollef Fog Heen, Fujii Masao, Robert Haas)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Keepalive settings were already supported on the server end of
+ TCP connections.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Properly report an error if the specified <application>libpq</> service
@@ -2224,7 +2261,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Load SSL certificate chain (Tom Lane)
+ Load SSL certificate chains (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
@@ -2423,6 +2460,20 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add a Makefile rule to build documentation as a single text file
+ (Bruce Momjian)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Restructure use of <literal>LDFLAGS</> to be more consistent
+ across platforms (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
@@ -2609,6 +2660,14 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ New documentation <link linkend="non-durability">section</link>
+ about running <productname>PostgreSQL</> in non-durable mode,
+ to improve performance (Bruce Momjian)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<sect4>
@@ -2732,7 +2791,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
- to support in-place upgrades (Bruce)
+ to support in-place upgrades (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
@@ -2843,6 +2902,19 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve <filename>/contrib/dblink</>s handling of dropped columns
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This affects <link
+ linkend="CONTRIB-DBLINK-BUILD-SQL-INSERT"><function>dblink_build_sql_insert()</></link>
+ and related functions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Greatly increase <link
@@ -2872,6 +2944,19 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><filename>/contrib/pg_archivecleanup</></link>
+ tool (Simon Riggs)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is designed to be used by the <literal>archive_cleanup_command</literal>
+ setting to remove unnecessary archive files.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Add query text to <link
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