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 <sect1 id="release-9-5-3">
  <title>Release 9.5.3</title>

  <note>
  <title>Release Date</title>
  <simpara>2016-05-12</simpara>
  </note>

  <para>
   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.2.
   For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
   <xref linkend="release-9-5">.
  </para>

  <sect2>
   <title>Migration to Version 9.5.3</title>

   <para>
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
   </para>

   <para>
    However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.2,
    see <xref linkend="release-9-5-2">.
   </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>

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     <para>
      Clear the OpenSSL error queue before OpenSSL calls, rather than
      assuming it's clear already; and make sure we leave it clear
      afterwards (Peter Geoghegan, Dave Vitek, Peter Eisentraut)
     </para>

     <para>
      This change prevents problems when there are multiple connections
      using OpenSSL within a single process and not all the code involved
      follows the same rules for when to clear the error queue.
      Failures have been reported specifically when a client application
      uses SSL connections in <application>libpq</> concurrently with
      SSL connections using the PHP, Python, or Ruby wrappers for OpenSSL.
      It's possible for similar problems to arise within the server as well,
      if an extension module establishes an outgoing SSL connection.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</>-way joins</quote>
      planner error with a full join enclosed in the right-hand side of a
      left join (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Fix incorrect handling of equivalence-class tests in multilevel
      nestloop plans (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class of variables, such
      as <literal>X.X = Y.Y = Z.Z</>, it was possible for the planner to omit
      some of the tests needed to enforce that all the variables are actually
      equal, leading to join rows being output that didn't satisfy
      the <literal>WHERE</> clauses.  For various reasons, erroneous plans
      were seldom selected in practice, so that this bug has gone undetected
      for a long time.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix corner-case parser failures occurring
      when <xref linkend="guc-operator-precedence-warning"> is turned on
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      An example is that <literal>SELECT (ARRAY[])::text[]</> gave an error,
      though it worked without the parentheses.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Fix query-lifespan memory leak in GIN index scans (Julien Rouhaud)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix query-lifespan memory leak and potential index corruption hazard in
      GIN index insertion (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      The memory leak would typically not amount to much in simple queries,
      but it could be very substantial during a large GIN index build with
      high <varname>maintenance_work_mem</>.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix possible misbehavior of <literal>TH</>, <literal>th</>,
      and <literal>Y,YYY</> format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</>
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      These could advance off the end of the input string, causing subsequent
      format codes to read garbage.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix dumping of rules and views in which the <replaceable>array</>
      argument of a <literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</>
      ANY (<replaceable>array</>)</literal> construct is a sub-SELECT
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Disallow newlines in <command>ALTER SYSTEM</> parameter values
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      The configuration-file parser doesn't support embedded newlines in
      string literals, so we mustn't allow them in values to be inserted
      by <command>ALTER SYSTEM</>.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX</> to
      work properly if an index on OID is selected (David Rowley)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Avoid possible misbehavior after failing to remove a tablespace symlink
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix crash in logical decoding on alignment-picky platforms (Tom Lane,
      Andres Freund)
     </para>

     <para>
      The failure occurred only with a transaction large enough to spill to
      disk and a primary-key change within that transaction.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Avoid repeated requests for feedback from receiver while shutting down
      walsender (Nick Cleaton)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Make <application>pg_regress</> use a startup timeout from the
      <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if that's set (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      This is for consistency with a behavior recently added
      to <application>pg_ctl</>; it eases automated testing on slow machines.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to correctly restore extension
      membership for operator families containing only one operator class
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      In such a case, the operator family was restored into the new database,
      but it was no longer marked as part of the extension.  This had no
      immediate ill effects, but would cause later <application>pg_dump</>
      runs to emit output that would cause (harmless) errors on restore.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to not fail when new-cluster TOAST rules
      differ from old (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      <application>pg_upgrade</> had special-case code to handle the
      situation where the new <productname>PostgreSQL</> version thinks that
      a table should have a TOAST table while the old version did not.  That
      code was broken, so remove it, and instead do nothing in such cases;
      there seems no reason to believe that we can't get along fine without
      a TOAST table if that was okay according to the old version's rules.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix atomic operations for PPC when using IBM's XLC compiler (Noah Misch)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Reduce the number of SysV semaphores used by a build configured with
      <option>--disable-spinlocks</> (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Rename internal function <function>strtoi()</>
      to <function>strtoint()</> to avoid conflict with a NetBSD library
      function (Thomas Munro)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix reporting of errors from <function>bind()</>
      and <function>listen()</> system calls on Windows (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Reduce verbosity of compiler output when building with Microsoft Visual
      Studio (Christian Ullrich)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Support building with Visual Studio 2015
      (Michael Paquier, Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
     </para>

     <para>
      Note that builds made with VS2015 will not run on Windows versions
      before Windows Vista.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Fix <function>putenv()</> to work properly with Visual Studio 2013
      (Michael Paquier)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' <function>FormatMessage()</>
      function (Christian Ullrich)
     </para>

     <para>
      Use the <literal>FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS</> flag where
      appropriate.  No live bug is known to exist here, but it seems like a
      good idea to be careful.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016d
      for DST law changes in Russia and Venezuela.  There are new zone
      names <literal>Europe/Kirov</> and <literal>Asia/Tomsk</> to reflect
      the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from
      adjacent regions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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  </sect2>
 </sect1>

 <sect1 id="release-9-5-2">
  <title>Release 9.5.2</title>

  <note>
  <title>Release Date</title>
  <simpara>2016-03-31</simpara>
  </note>

  <para>
   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.1.
   For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
   <xref linkend="release-9-5">.
  </para>

  <sect2>
   <title>Migration to Version 9.5.2</title>

   <para>
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
   </para>

   <para>
    However, you may need to <command>REINDEX</> some indexes after applying
    the update, as per the first changelog entry below.
   </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>

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     <para>
      Disable abbreviated keys for string sorting in non-<literal>C</>
      locales (Robert Haas)
     </para>

     <para>
      <productname>PostgreSQL</> 9.5 introduced logic for speeding up
      comparisons of string data types by using the standard C library
      function <function>strxfrm()</> as a substitute
      for <function>strcoll()</>.  It now emerges that most versions of
      glibc (Linux's implementation of the C library) have buggy
      implementations of <function>strxfrm()</> that, in some locales,
      can produce string comparison results that do not
      match <function>strcoll()</>.  Until this problem can be better
      characterized, disable the optimization in all non-<literal>C</>
      locales.  (<literal>C</> locale is safe since it uses
      neither <function>strcoll()</> nor <function>strxfrm()</>.)
     </para>

     <para>
      Unfortunately, this problem affects not only sorting but also entry
      ordering in B-tree indexes, which means that B-tree indexes
      on <type>text</>, <type>varchar</>, or <type>char</> columns may now
      be corrupt if they sort according to an affected locale and were
      built or modified under <productname>PostgreSQL</> 9.5.0 or 9.5.1.
      Users should <command>REINDEX</> indexes that might be affected.
     </para>

     <para>
      It is not possible at this time to give an exhaustive list of
      known-affected locales.  <literal>C</> locale is known safe, and
      there is no evidence of trouble in English-based locales such
      as <literal>en_US</>, but some other popular locales such
      as <literal>de_DE</> are affected in most glibc versions.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Maintain row-security status properly in cached plans (Stephen Frost)
     </para>

     <para>
      In a session that performs queries as more than one role, the plan
      cache might incorrectly re-use a plan that was generated for another
      role ID, thus possibly applying the wrong set of policies when
      row-level security (RLS) is in use.
      (CVE-2016-2193)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add must-be-superuser checks to some
      new <filename>contrib/pageinspect</> functions (Andreas Seltenreich)
     </para>

     <para>
      Most functions in the <filename>pageinspect</> extension that
      inspect <type>bytea</> values disallow calls by non-superusers,
      but <function>brin_page_type()</> and <function>brin_metapage_info()</>
      failed to do so.  Passing contrived <type>bytea</> values to them might
      crash the server or disclose a few bytes of server memory.  Add the
      missing permissions checks to prevent misuse.
      (CVE-2016-3065)
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix incorrect handling of indexed <literal>ROW()</> comparisons
      (Simon Riggs)
     </para>

     <para>
      Flaws in a minor optimization introduced in 9.5 caused incorrect
      results if the <literal>ROW()</> comparison matches the index ordering
      partially but not exactly (for example, differing column order, or the
      index contains both <literal>ASC</> and <literal>DESC</> columns).
      Pending a better solution, the optimization has been removed.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in
      indexed <literal>ROW()</> comparisons (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      An index search using a row comparison such as <literal>ROW(a, b) &gt;
      ROW('x', 'y')</> would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in
      the <structfield>b</> column, ignoring the fact that there might be
      non-NULL <structfield>b</> values associated with later values
      of <structfield>a</>.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without
      adequate <function>fsync()</> calls before and after (Michael Paquier,
      Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix incorrect behavior when rechecking a just-modified row in a query
      that does <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE</> and contains some
      relations that need not be locked (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Rows from non-locked relations were incorrectly treated as containing
      all NULLs during the recheck, which could result in incorrectly
      deciding that the updated row no longer passes the <literal>WHERE</>
      condition, or in incorrectly outputting NULLs.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix bug in <function>json_to_record()</> when a field of its input
      object contains a sub-object with a field name matching one of the
      requested output column names (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix nonsense result from two-argument form
      of <function>jsonb_object()</> when called with empty arrays
      (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix misbehavior in <function>jsonb_set()</> when converting a path
      array element into an integer for use as an array subscript
      (Michael Paquier)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix misformatting of negative time zone offsets
      by <function>to_char()</>'s <literal>OF</> format code
      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix possible incorrect logging of waits done by
      <command>INSERT ... ON CONFLICT</> (Peter Geoghegan)
     </para>

     <para>
      Log messages would sometimes claim that the wait was due to an
      exclusion constraint although no such constraint was responsible.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Ignore <xref linkend="recovery-min-apply-delay"> parameter until
      recovery has reached a consistent state (Michael Paquier)
     </para>

     <para>
      Previously, standby servers would delay application of WAL records in
      response to <varname>recovery_min_apply_delay</> even while replaying
      the initial portion of WAL needed to make their database state valid.
      Since the standby is useless until it's reached a consistent database
      state, this was deemed unhelpful.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Correctly handle cases where <literal>pg_subtrans</> is close to XID
      wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix assorted bugs in logical decoding (Andres Freund)
     </para>

     <para>
      Trouble cases included tuples larger than one page when replica
      identity is <literal>FULL</>, <command>UPDATE</>s that change a
      primary key within a transaction large enough to be spooled to disk,
      incorrect reports of <quote>subxact logged without previous toplevel
      record</>, and incorrect reporting of a transaction's commit time.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix planner error with nested security barrier views when the outer
      view has a <literal>WHERE</> clause containing a correlated subquery
      (Dean Rasheed)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix memory leak in GIN index searches (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix corner-case crash due to trying to free <function>localeconv()</>
      output strings more than once (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix parsing of affix files for <literal>ispell</> dictionaries
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters
      whose byte length changes during case-folding, for
      example <literal>I</> in Turkish UTF8 locales.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Avoid use of <function>sscanf()</> to parse <literal>ispell</>
      dictionary files (Artur Zakirov)
     </para>

     <para>
      This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms
      (including OS X).
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix atomic-operations code used on PPC with IBM's xlc compiler
      (Noah Misch)
     </para>

     <para>
      This error led to rare failures of concurrent operations on that
      platform.
     </para>
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     <para>
      Avoid a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an
      AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013
      (Christian Ullrich)
     </para>

     <para>
      This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime
      library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that
      version.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix <application>psql</>'s tab completion logic to handle multibyte
      characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas)
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix <application>psql</>'s tab completion for
      <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Pressing TAB after <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> might cause a crash
      or offering of inappropriate keywords.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make <application>pg_ctl</> accept a wait timeout from the
      <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if none is specified on
      the command line (Noah Misch)
     </para>

     <para>
      This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them
      to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster
      startup and shutdown.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix incorrect test for Windows service status
      in <application>pg_ctl</> (Manuel Mathar)
     </para>

     <para>
      The previous set of minor releases attempted to
      fix <application>pg_ctl</> to properly determine whether to send log
      messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards.
     </para>
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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Fix <application>pgbench</> to correctly handle the combination
      of <literal>-C</> and <literal>-M prepared</> options (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      In <application>pg_upgrade</>, skip creating a deletion script when
      the new data directory is inside the old data directory (Bruce
      Momjian)
     </para>

     <para>
      Blind application of the script in such cases would result in loss of
      the new data directory.
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      In PL/Perl, properly translate empty Postgres arrays into empty Perl
      arrays (Alex Hunsaker)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python
      identifiers (Jim Nasby)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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      Fix multiple mistakes in the statistics returned
      by <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</>'s <function>pgstatindex()</>
      function (Tom Lane)
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     <para>
      Remove dependency on <literal>psed</> in MSVC builds, since it's no
      longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan)
     </para>
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     <para>
      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016c
      for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia
      (Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus
      historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia
      (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd).
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 <sect1 id="release-9-5-1">
  <title>Release 9.5.1</title>

  <note>
  <title>Release Date</title>
  <simpara>2016-02-11</simpara>
  </note>

  <para>
   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.0.
   For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
   <xref linkend="release-9-5">.
  </para>

  <sect2>
   <title>Migration to Version 9.5.1</title>

   <para>
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
   </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <itemizedlist>

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      Fix infinite loops and buffer-overrun problems in regular expressions
      (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Very large character ranges in bracket expressions could cause
      infinite loops in some cases, and memory overwrites in other cases.
      (CVE-2016-0773)
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      Fix an oversight that caused hash joins to miss joining to some tuples
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      Avoid pushdown of <literal>HAVING</> clauses when grouping sets are
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      Fix deparsing of <literal>ON CONFLICT</> arbiter <literal>WHERE</>
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      Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes
      in <varname>log_line_prefix</> work for messages emitted due
      to <varname>log_connections</> (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Previously, <literal>%h</>/<literal>%r</> started to work just after a
      new session had emitted the <quote>connection received</> log message;
      now they work for that message too.
     </para>
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      Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication
      (Christian Ullrich)
     </para>
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      Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its
      pattern argument the same way as other <literal>\d</> commands with
      potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart)
     </para>
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     <para>
      In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide
      where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a
      terminal (Michael Paquier)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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      Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing
      of extension member objects (Tom Lane)
     </para>
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      Fix improper quoting of domain constraint names
      in <application>pg_dump</> (Elvis Pranskevichus)
     </para>
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      Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be
      processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during
      parallel <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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     <para>
      Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow
      conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo
      operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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      Suppress useless warning message when <application>pg_receivexlog</>
      connects to a pre-9.4 server (Marco Nenciarini)
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      Avoid dump/reload problems when using both <application>plpython2</>
      and <application>plpython3</> (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      In principle, both versions of <application>PL/Python</> can be used in
      the same database, though not in the same session (because the two
      versions of <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently).
      However, <application>pg_restore</> and <application>pg_upgrade</> both
      do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction.  Work
      around that by changing the timing of the check.
     </para>
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      Fix <application>PL/Python</> regression tests to pass with Python 3.5
      (Peter Eisentraut)
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      Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by
      non-superusers (Noah Misch)
     </para>

     <para>
      This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug
      (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking
      these parameters as superuser-only.  To fix the security hazard for
      sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently
      than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also.
     </para>
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      Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments
      continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line
      (Michael Meskes)
     </para>

     <para>
      Such a comment is rejected by <application>ecpg</>.  It's not yet clear
      whether <application>ecpg</> itself should be changed.
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      Fix <function>hstore_to_json_loose()</>'s test for whether
      an <type>hstore</> value can be converted to a JSON number (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      Previously this function could be fooled by non-alphanumeric trailing
      characters, leading to emitting syntactically-invalid JSON.
     </para>
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      In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>, fix bugs triggered by use
      of <literal>tableoid</> in data-modifying commands (Etsuro Fujita,
      Robert Haas)
     </para>
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      Improve reproducibility of build output by ensuring filenames are given
      to the linker in a fixed order (Christoph Berg)
     </para>

     <para>
      This avoids possible bitwise differences in the produced executable
      files from one build to the next.
     </para>
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      Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed
      header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier)
     </para>
    </listitem>

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      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for
      DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal
      Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan.
     </para>
    </listitem>

   </itemizedlist>

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 <sect1 id="release-9-5">
  <title>Release 9.5</title>

  <note>
   <title>Release Date</title>
   <simpara>2016-01-07</simpara>
  </note>

  <sect2>
   <title>Overview</title>

   <para>
    Major enhancements in <productname>PostgreSQL</> 9.5 include:
   </para>

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    <listitem>
     <para>
      Allow <link linkend="sql-on-conflict"><command>INSERT</></>s
      that would generate constraint conflicts to be turned into
      <command>UPDATE</>s or ignored
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add <literal>GROUP BY</> analysis features <link
      linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>GROUPING SETS</></>,
      <link linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>CUBE</></> and
      <link linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>ROLLUP</></>
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add <link linkend="ddl-rowsecurity">row-level security control</>
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Create mechanisms for tracking
      the <link linkend="replication-origins">progress of replication</>,
      including methods for identifying the origin of individual changes
      during logical replication
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Add <link linkend="BRIN">Block Range Indexes</> (<acronym>BRIN</>)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Substantial performance improvements for sorting
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
     <para>
      Substantial performance improvements for multi-CPU machines
     </para>
    </listitem>

   </itemizedlist>

   <para>
    The above items are explained in more detail in the sections below.
   </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>

  <title>Migration to Version 9.5</title>

   <para>
    A dump/restore using <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">, or use
    of <xref linkend="pgupgrade">, is required for those wishing to migrate
    data from any previous release.
   </para>

   <para>
    Version 9.5 contains a number of changes that may affect compatibility
    with previous releases.  Observe the following incompatibilities:
   </para>

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      The precedence of <literal>&lt;=</literal>, <literal>&gt;=</literal>
      and <literal>&lt;&gt;</literal> has been reduced to match that of
      <literal>&lt;</literal>, <literal>&gt;</literal>
      and <literal>=</literal>.  The precedence of <literal>IS</> tests
      (e.g., <replaceable>x</> <literal>IS NULL</>) has been reduced to be
      just below these six comparison operators.
      Also, multi-keyword operators beginning with <literal>NOT</> now have
      the precedence of their base operator (for example, <literal>NOT
      BETWEEN</> now has the same precedence as <literal>BETWEEN</>) whereas
      before they had inconsistent precedence, behaving like <literal>NOT</>
      with respect to their left operand but like their base operator with
      respect to their right operand.  The new configuration
      parameter <xref linkend="guc-operator-precedence-warning"> can be
      enabled to warn about queries in which these precedence changes result
      in different parsing choices.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-31 [0badb06] Bruce ..: pg_ctl:  change default shutdown mode from 'sma..
-->
     <para>
      Change <xref linkend="app-pg-ctl">'s default shutdown mode from
      <literal>smart</> to <literal>fast</> (Bruce Momjian)
     </para>

     <para>
      This means the default behavior will be to forcibly cancel existing
      database sessions, not simply wait for them to exit.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-04 [1345cc6] Tom Lane: Use standard casting mechanism to convert type..
-->
     <para>
      Use assignment cast behavior for data type conversions
      in <application>PL/pgSQL</> assignments, rather than converting to and
      from text (Tom Lane)
     </para>

     <para>
      This change causes conversions of Booleans to strings to
      produce <literal>true</> or <literal>false</>, not <literal>t</>
      or <literal>f</>.  Other type conversions may succeed in more cases
      than before; for example, assigning a numeric value <literal>3.9</> to
      an integer variable will now assign 4 rather than failing.  If no
      assignment-grade cast is defined for the particular source and
      destination types, <application>PL/pgSQL</> will fall back to its old
      I/O conversion behavior.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-28 [11a020e] Andres..: Allow escaping of option values for options pas..
-->
     <para>
      Allow characters in <link linkend="libpq-connect-options">server
      command-line options</> to be escaped with a backslash (Andres Freund)
     </para>

     <para>
      Formerly, spaces in the options string always separated options, so
      there was no way to include a space in an option value.  Including
      a backslash in an option value now requires writing <literal>\\</>.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-08 [9a08841] Stephe..: Change default for include_realm to 1
-->
     <para>
      Change the default value of the GSSAPI <link
      linkend="gssapi-auth"><varname>include_realm</></> parameter to 1, so
      that by default the realm is not removed from a <acronym>GSS</>
      or <acronym>SSPI</> principal name (Stephen Frost)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-23 [88e9823] Heikki..: Replace checkpoint_segments with min_wal_size a..
2015-03-15 [a0f5954] Andres..: Increase max_wal_size's default from 128MB to 1..
2015-06-29 [d661532] Heikki..: Also trigger restartpoints based on max_wal_siz..
-->
     <para>
      Replace configuration parameter <varname>checkpoint_segments</>
      with <xref linkend="guc-min-wal-size">
      and <xref linkend="guc-max-wal-size"> (Heikki Linnakangas)
     </para>

     <para>
      If you previously adjusted <varname>checkpoint_segments</varname>, the
      following formula will give you an approximately equivalent setting:
<programlisting>
max_wal_size = (3 * checkpoint_segments) * 16MB
</programlisting>
      Note that the default setting for <varname>max_wal_size</varname> is
      much higher than the default <varname>checkpoint_segments</varname> used
      to be, so adjusting it might no longer be necessary.
     </para>
    </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-18 [df8b7bc] Tom Lane: Improve our mechanism for controlling the Linux..
-->
       <para>
        Control the Linux <acronym>OOM</> killer via new environment
        variables <link
        linkend="linux-memory-overcommit"><envar>PG_OOM_ADJUST_FILE</></>
        and <link
        linkend="linux-memory-overcommit"><envar>PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE</></>,
        instead of compile-time options <literal>LINUX_OOM_SCORE_ADJ</> and
        <literal>LINUX_OOM_ADJ</>
        (Gurjeet Singh)
       </para>
      </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-10-20 [b06f1f2] Robert..: Put back ssl_renegotiation_limit parameter, bu..
2015-07-28 [6087d95] Andres..: Remove ssl renegotiation support.
-->
     <para>
      Decommission server configuration
      parameter <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</>, which was deprecated
      in earlier releases (Andres Freund)
     </para>

     <para>
      While SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it has caused enough
      bugs to be considered a net negative in practice, and it is due to be
      removed from future versions of the relevant standards.  We have
      therefore removed support for it from <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
      The <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</> parameter still exists, but
      cannot be set to anything but zero (disabled).  It's not documented
      anymore, either.
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-05 [525a489] Tom Lane: Remove the last vestige of server-side autocomm..
-->
     <para>
      Remove server configuration parameter <varname>autocommit</>, which
      was already deprecated and non-operational (Tom Lane)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-06 [bb8582a] Peter ..: Remove rolcatupdate
-->
     <para>
      Remove the <link linkend="catalog-pg-authid"><structname>pg_authid</></>
      catalog's <structfield>rolcatupdate</> field, as it had no usefulness
      (Adam Brightwell)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-12-13 [28c3667] Magnus..: Consistently set all fields in pg_stat_replica..
-->
     <para>
      The <link
      linkend="monitoring-stats-views-table"><structname>pg_stat_replication</></link>
      system view's <structfield>sent</> field is now NULL, not zero, when
      it has no valid value (Magnus Hagander)
     </para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
<!--
2015-07-17 [89ddd29] Andrew..: Support JSON negative array subscripts everywh..
-->
     <para>
      Allow <type>json</> and <type>jsonb</> array extraction operators to
      accept negative subscripts, which count from the end of JSON arrays
      (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Dunstan)
     </para>

     <para>
      Previously, these operators returned <literal>NULL</> for negative
      subscripts.
     </para>
    </listitem>

   </itemizedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
   <title>Changes</title>

   <para>
    Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
    <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 9.5 and the previous major
    release.
   </para>

   <sect3>
    <title>Server</title>

    <sect4>
     <title>Indexes</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-07 [7516f52] Alvaro..: BRIN: Block Range Indexes
2015-05-05 [3b6db1f] Alvaro..: Add geometry/range functions to support BRIN in..
2015-05-15 [b0b7be6] Alvaro..: Add BRIN infrastructure for "inclusion" opclasses
-->
       <para>
        Add <link linkend="BRIN">Block Range Indexes</> (<acronym>BRIN</>)
        (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
       </para>

       <para>
        <acronym>BRIN</> indexes store only summary data (such as minimum
        and maximum values) for ranges of heap blocks.  They are therefore
        very compact and cheap to update; but if the data is naturally
        clustered, they can still provide substantial speedup of searches.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [35fcb1b] Heikki..: Allow GiST distance function to return merely ..
-->
       <para>
        Allow queries to perform accurate distance filtering of
        bounding-box-indexed objects (polygons, circles) using <link
        linkend="GiST">GiST</> indexes (Alexander Korotkov, Heikki
        Linnakangas)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously, to exploit such an index a subquery had to be used to
        select a large number of rows ordered by bounding-box distance, and
        the result then had to be filtered further with a more accurate
        distance calculation.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-26 [d04c8ed] Heikki..: Add support for index-only scans in GiST.
2015-03-27 [e09b483] Heikki..: Add index-only scan support to btree_gist.
2015-03-28 [3a20b0e] Heikki..: Add index-only scan support to inet GiST opclass.
2015-03-30 [0633a60] Heikki..: Add index-only scan support to range type GiST ..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="GiST">GiST</> indexes to perform index-only
        scans (Anastasia Lubennikova, Heikki Linnakangas, Andreas Karlsson)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
-->
       <para>
        Add configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-gin-pending-list-limit">
        to control the size of <acronym>GIN</> pending lists (Fujii Masao)
       </para>

       <para>
        This value can also be set on a per-index basis as an index storage
        parameter.  Previously the pending-list size was controlled
        by <xref linkend="guc-work-mem">, which was awkward because
        appropriate values for <varname>work_mem</> are often much too large
        for this purpose.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-10 [84aa8ba] Bruce ..: Issue a warning during the creation of hash in..
-->
       <para>
        Issue a warning during the creation of <link
        linkend="indexes-types">hash</> indexes because they are not
        crash-safe (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title>General Performance</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-01-19 [4ea51cd] Robert..: Use abbreviated keys for faster sorting of text..
2014-09-19 [e246b3d] Robert..: Add a fast pre-check for equality of equal-leng..
2015-05-13 [78efd5c] Robert..: Extend abbreviated key infrastructure to datum ..
-->
       <para>
        Improve the speed of sorting of <type>varchar</>, <type>text</>,
        and <type>numeric</> fields via <quote>abbreviated</> keys
        (Peter Geoghegan, Andrew Gierth, Robert Haas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-07 [5ea86e6] Robert..: Use the sortsupport infrastructure in more cas..
-->
       <para>
        Extend the infrastructure that allows sorting to be performed by
        inlined, non-<acronym>SQL</acronym>-callable comparison functions to
        cover <command>CREATE INDEX</>, <command>REINDEX</>, and
        <command>CLUSTER</> (Peter Geoghegan)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-10 [45f6240] Heikki..: Pack tuples in a hash join batch densely, to sa..
2014-09-12 [8cce08f] Robert..: Change NTUP_PER_BUCKET to 1 to improve hash joi..
2014-10-13 [30d7ae3] Kevin ..: Increase number of hash join buckets for undere..
-->
       <para>
        Improve performance of hash joins (Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-25 [5d7962c] Robert..: Change locking regimen around buffer replacement.
2014-12-25 [d72731a] Andres..: Lockless StrategyGetBuffer clock sweep hot path.
-->
       <para>
        Improve concurrency of shared buffer replacement
        (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-25 [2ed5b87f] Kevin ..: Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for b..
-->
       <para>
        Reduce the number of page locks and pins during index scans (Kevin Grittner)
       </para>

       <para>
        The primary benefit of this is to allow index vacuums to be blocked
        less often.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-30 [4b4b680] Andres..: Make backend local tracking of buffer pins memo..
2015-01-19 [2d115e4] Andres..: Fix various shortcomings of the new PrivateRefC..
-->
       <para>
        Make per-backend tracking of buffer pins more memory-efficient
        (Andres Freund)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-25 [ab5194e] Andres..: Improve LWLock scalability.
-->
       <para>
        Improve lock scalability (Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        This particularly addresses scalability problems when running on
        systems with multiple <acronym>CPU</> sockets.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-15 [f15821e] Tom Lane: Allow join removal in some cases involving a le..
-->
       <para>
        Allow the optimizer to remove unnecessary references to left-joined
        subqueries (David Rowley)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-27 [d222585] Tom Lane: Allow pushdown of WHERE quals into subqueries w..
-->
       <para>
        Allow pushdown of query restrictions into subqueries with <link
        linkend="tutorial-window">window functions</>, where appropriate
        (David Rowley)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-27 [dcbf594]  Stephe..: Improve qual pushdown for RLS and SB views
-->
       <para>
        Allow a non-leakproof function to be pushed down into a security
        barrier view if the function does not receive any view output
        columns (Dean Rasheed)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-09-24 [45d256c] Tom Lane: Allow planner to use expression-index stats fo..
-->
       <para>
        Teach the planner to use statistics obtained from an expression
        index on a boolean-returning function, when a matching function call
        appears in <literal>WHERE</> (Tom Lane)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-09-23 [cfb2024] Tom Lane: Make ANALYZE compute basic statistics even for..
-->
       <para>
        Make <command>ANALYZE</> compute basic statistics (null fraction and
        average column width) even for columns whose data type lacks an
        equality function (Oleksandr Shulgin)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-04 [5028f22] Heikki..: Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
2015-02-10 [025c024] Heikki..: Speed up CRC calculation using slicing-by-8 alg..
2015-04-14 [3dc2d62] Heikki..: Use Intel SSE 4.2 CRC instructions where availa..

-->
       <para>
        Speed up <acronym>CRC</> (cyclic redundancy check) computations
        and switch to CRC-32C (Abhijit Menon-Sen, Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-01-16 [f5ae3ba] Andres..: Make tbm_add_tuples more efficient by caching t..
2015-01-16 [779fdcd] Tom Lane: Improve new caching logic in tbm_add_tuples().
-->
       <para>
        Improve bitmap index scan performance (Teodor Sigaev, Tom Lane)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-01 [9f03ca9] Robert..: Avoid copying index tuples when building an ind..
-->
       <para>
        Speed up <command>CREATE INDEX</> by avoiding unnecessary memory
        copies (Robert Haas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-02 [3acc10c9] Robert..: Increase the number of buffer mapping partitio..
-->
       <para>
        Increase the number of buffer mapping partitions (Amit Kapila,
        Andres Freund, Robert Haas)
       </para>

       <para>
        This improves performance for highly concurrent workloads.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title>Monitoring</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-03 [4ff695b1] Alvaro..: Add log_min_autovacuum_duration per-table option
-->
       <para>
        Add per-table autovacuum logging control via new
        <varname>log_autovacuum_min_duration</> storage parameter
        (Michael Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-29 [51adcaa] Andres..: Add cluster_name GUC which is included in proce..
-->
       <para>
        Add new configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-cluster-name">
        (Thomas Munro)
       </para>

       <para>
        This string, typically set in <link
        linkend="config-setting-configuration-file"><filename>postgresql.conf</></>,
        allows clients to identify the cluster.  This name also appears
        in the process title of all server processes, allowing for easier
        identification of processes belonging to the same cluster.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-13 [fe550b2] Tom Lane: Invent PGC_SU_BACKEND and mark log_connections..
-->
       <para>
        Prevent non-superusers from changing <xref
        linkend="guc-log-disconnections"> on connection startup (Fujii Masao)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title><acronym>SSL</></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-12 [acd08d7] Heikki..: Support Subject Alternative Names in SSL server..
-->
       <para>
        Check <link linkend="libpq-ssl"><quote>Subject Alternative
        Names</></> in <acronym>SSL</> server certificates, if present
        (Alexey Klyukin)
       </para>

       <para>
        When they are present, this replaces checks against the certificate's
        <quote>Common Name</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-12 [9029f4b] Magnus..: Add system view pg_stat_ssl
-->
       <para>
        Add system view <link
        linkend="pg-stat-ssl-view"><structname>pg_stat_ssl</></> to report
        <acronym>SSL</> connection information (Magnus Hagander)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-03 [91fa7b4] Heikki..: Add API functions to libpq to interrogate SSL ..
-->
       <para>
        Add <application>libpq</> functions to return <acronym>SSL</>
        information in an implementation-independent way (Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>

       <para>
        While <link linkend="libpq-pqgetssl"><function>PQgetssl()</></> can
        still be used to call <productname>OpenSSL</> functions, it is now
        considered deprecated because future versions
        of <application>libpq</> might support other <acronym>SSL</>
        implementations.  When possible, use the new
        functions <link
        linkend="libpq-pqsslattribute"><function>PQsslAttribute()</></>, <link
        linkend="libpq-pqsslattributenames"><function>PQsslAttributeNames()</></>,
        and <link linkend="libpq-pqsslinuse"><function>PQsslInUse()</></>
        to obtain <acronym>SSL</> information in
        an <acronym>SSL</>-implementation-independent way.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-09 [8a0d34e4] Peter ..: libpq: Don't overwrite existing OpenSSL thread..
-->
       <para>
        Make <application>libpq</> honor any <productname>OpenSSL</>
        thread callbacks (Jan Urbanski)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously they were overwritten.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title>Server Settings</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-23 [88e9823] Heikki..: Replace checkpoint_segments with min_wal_size a..
2015-03-15 [a0f5954] Andres..: Increase max_wal_size's default from 128MB to 1..
2015-06-29 [d661532] Heikki..: Also trigger restartpoints based on max_wal_siz..
-->
       <para>
        Replace configuration parameter <varname>checkpoint_segments</>
        with <xref linkend="guc-min-wal-size">
        and <xref linkend="guc-max-wal-size"> (Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>

       <para>
        This change allows the allocation of a large number of <acronym>WAL</>
        files without keeping them after they are no longer needed.
        Therefore the default for <varname>max_wal_size</> has been set
        to <literal>1GB</>, much larger than the old default
        for <varname>checkpoint_segments</>.
        Also note that standby servers perform restartpoints to try to limit
        their WAL space consumption to <varname>max_wal_size</>; previously
        they did not pay any attention to <varname>checkpoint_segments</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-18 [df8b7bc] Tom Lane: Improve our mechanism for controlling the Linux..
-->
       <para>
        Control the Linux <acronym>OOM</> killer via new environment
        variables <link
        linkend="linux-memory-overcommit"><envar>PG_OOM_ADJUST_FILE</></>
        and <link
        linkend="linux-memory-overcommit"><envar>PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE</></>
        (Gurjeet Singh)
       </para>

       <para>
        The previous <acronym>OOM</> control infrastructure involved
        compile-time options <literal>LINUX_OOM_SCORE_ADJ</> and
        <literal>LINUX_OOM_ADJ</>, which are no longer supported.
        The new behavior is available in all builds.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-03 [73c986a] Alvaro..: Keep track of transaction commit timestamps
-->
       <para>
        Allow recording of transaction
        commit time stamps when configuration parameter <xref
        linkend="guc-track-commit-timestamp">
        is enabled (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera, Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
       </para>

       <para>
        Time stamp information can be accessed using functions <link
        linkend="functions-commit-timestamp"><function>pg_xact_commit_timestamp()</></>
        and <function>pg_last_committed_xact()</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-22 [584e35d] Peter ..: Change local_preload_libraries to PGC_USERSET
-->
       <para>
        Allow <xref linkend="guc-local-preload-libraries"> to be set
        by <command>ALTER ROLE SET</> (Peter Eisentraut, Kyotaro Horiguchi)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-03 [a75fb9b] Alvaro..: Have autovacuum workers listen to SIGHUP, too
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="autovacuum">autovacuum workers</>
        to respond to configuration parameter changes during a run
        (Michael Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-20 [3bdcf6a] Andres..: Don't allow to disable backend assertions via t..
-->
       <para>
        Make configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-debug-assertions">
        read-only (Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        This means that assertions can no longer be turned
        off if they were enabled at compile time, allowing for more
        efficient code optimization.  This change also removes the <link
        linkend="app-postgres-options">postgres</> <option>-A</> option.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-18 [7feaccc] Peter ..: Allow setting effective_io_concurrency even on..
-->
       <para>
        Allow setting <xref linkend="guc-effective-io-concurrency"> on
        systems where it has no effect (Peter Eisentraut)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-08 [a97e0c3] Stephe..: Add pg_file_settings view and function
2015-06-28 [62d16c7] Tom Lane: Improve design and implementation of pg_file_se..
-->
       <para>
        Add system view <link
        linkend="view-pg-file-settings"><structname>pg_file_settings</></>
        to show the contents of the server's configuration files
        (Sawada Masahiko)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-14 [a486e35] Peter ..: Add pg_settings.pending_restart column
-->
       <para>
        Add <structname>pending_restart</> to the system view <link
        linkend="view-pg-settings"><structname>pg_settings</></> to
        indicate a change has been made but will not take effect until a
        database restart (Peter Eisentraut)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-02 [bd3b7a9] Fujii ..: Support ALTER SYSTEM RESET command.
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="SQL-ALTERSYSTEM"><command>ALTER SYSTEM</></>
        values to be reset with <command>ALTER SYSTEM RESET</> (Vik
        Fearing)
       </para>

       <para>
        This command removes the specified setting
        from <filename>postgresql.auto.conf</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Replication and Recovery</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-29 [5aa2350] Andres..: Introduce replication progress tracking infrast..
-->
       <para>
        Create mechanisms for tracking
        the <link linkend="replication-origins">progress of replication</>,
        including methods for identifying the origin of individual changes
        during logical replication (Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        This is helpful when implementing replication solutions.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-09-26 [bd7c348] Andres..: Rework the way multixact truncations work.
2015-09-26 [6e8af37] Andres..: Remove legacy multixact truncation support.
-->
       <para>
        Rework truncation of the multixact commit log to be properly
        WAL-logged (Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        This makes things substantially simpler and more robust.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-25 [aedccb1] Simon ..: action_at_recovery_target recovery config option
2014-12-07 [b8e33a8] Simon ..: Tweaks for recovery_target_action
2015-03-15 [51c11a7] Andres..: Remove pause_at_recovery_target recovery.conf s..
-->
       <para>
        Add <link linkend="recovery-config"><filename>recovery.conf</></>
        parameter <link
        linkend="recovery-target-action"><varname>recovery_target_action</></>
        to control post-recovery activity (Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
       </para>

       <para>
        This replaces the old parameter <varname>pause_at_recovery_target</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [ffd3774] Heikki..: Add archive_mode='always' option.
-->
       <para>
        Add new <xref linkend="guc-archive-mode"> value
        <literal>always</> to allow standbys to always archive received
        <acronym>WAL</> files (Fujii Masao)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-23 [5d2b45e] Fujii ..: Add GUC to control the time to wait before retr..
-->
       <para>
        Add configuration
        parameter <xref linkend="guc-wal-retrieve-retry-interval"> to
        control <acronym>WAL</> read retry after failure
        (Alexey Vasiliev, Michael Paquier)
       </para>

       <para>
        This is particularly helpful for warm standbys.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-11 [57aa5b2] Fujii ..: Add GUC to enable compression of full page imag..
-->
       <para>
        Allow compression of full-page images stored in <acronym>WAL</>
        (Rahila Syed, Michael Paquier)
       </para>

       <para>
        This feature reduces WAL volume, at the cost of more CPU time spent
        on WAL logging and WAL replay.  It is controlled by a new
        configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-wal-compression">, which
        currently is off by default.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-08 [de76884] Heikki..: At promotion, archive last segment from old tim..
-->
       <para>
        Archive <acronym>WAL</> files with suffix <literal>.partial</>
        during standby promotion (Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-13 [4ad2a54] Fujii ..: Add GUC to enable logging of replication comman..
-->
       <para>
        Add configuration parameter <xref
        linkend="guc-log-replication-commands">
        to log replication commands (Fujii Masao)
       </para>

       <para>
        By default, replication commands, e.g. <link
        linkend="protocol-replication"><literal>IDENTIFY_SYSTEM</></>,
        are not logged, even when <xref linkend="guc-log-statement"> is set
        to <literal>all</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-21 [d811c03] Andres..: Add 'active_in' column to pg_replication_slots.
-->
       <para>
        Report the processes holding replication slots in <link
        linkend="view-pg-replication-slots"><structname>pg_replication_slots</></>
        (Craig Ringer)
       </para>

       <para>
        The new output column is <structname>active_pid</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-25 [b3fc672] Heikki..: Allow using connection URI in primary_conninfo.
-->
       <para>
        Allow <filename>recovery.conf</>'s <link
        linkend="primary-conninfo"><varname>primary_conninfo</></> setting to
        use connection <acronym>URI</>s, e.g. <literal>postgres://</>
        (Alexander Shulgin)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Queries</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-08 [168d580] Andres..: Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHI..
2015-05-08 [2c8f483] Andres..: Represent columns requiring insert and update p..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="sql-on-conflict"><command>INSERT</></>s
        that would generate constraint conflicts to be turned into
        <command>UPDATE</>s or ignored (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki
        Linnakangas, Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        The syntax is <command>INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE</>.
        This is the Postgres implementation of the popular
        <command>UPSERT</> command.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-16 [f3d3118] Andres..: Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.
-->
       <para>
        Add <literal>GROUP BY</> analysis features <link
        linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>GROUPING SETS</></>,
        <link linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>CUBE</></> and
        <link linkend="queries-grouping-sets"><literal>ROLLUP</></>
        (Andrew Gierth, Atri Sharma)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-18 [8f889b1] Tom Lane: Implement UPDATE tab SET (col1,col2,...) = (SEL..
-->
       <para>
        Allow setting multiple target columns in
        an <link linkend="SQL-UPDATE"><command>UPDATE</></> from the result of
        a single sub-SELECT (Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        This is accomplished using the syntax <command>UPDATE tab SET
        (col1, col2, ...) = (SELECT ...)</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-07 [df630b0] Alvaro..: Implement SKIP LOCKED for row-level locks
-->
       <para>
        Add <link linkend="SQL-SELECT"><command>SELECT</></> option
        <literal>SKIP LOCKED</> to skip locked rows (Thomas Munro)
       </para>

       <para>
        This does not throw an error for locked rows like
        <literal>NOWAIT</> does.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [f6d208d] Simon ..: TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible
-->
       <para>
        Add <link linkend="SQL-SELECT"><command>SELECT</></> option
        <literal>TABLESAMPLE</> to return a subset of a table (Petr
        Jel&iacute;nek)
       </para>

       <para>
        This feature supports the SQL-standard table sampling methods.
        In addition, there are provisions
        for <link linkend="tablesample-method">user-defined
        table sampling methods</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-11 [e529cd4] Robert..: Suggest to the user the column they may have m..
-->
       <para>
        Suggest possible matches for mistyped column names (Peter
        Geoghegan, Robert Haas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Utility Commands</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-01-16 [20af53d] Tom Lane: Show sort ordering options in EXPLAIN output.
-->
       <para>
        Add more details about sort ordering in <link
        linkend="SQL-EXPLAIN"><command>EXPLAIN</></> output (Marius Timmer,
        Lukas Kreft, Arne Scheffer)
       </para>

       <para>
        Details include <literal>COLLATE</>, <literal>DESC</>,
        <literal>USING</>, and <literal>NULLS FIRST</><literal>/LAST</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-18 [35192f0] Alvaro..: Have VACUUM log number of skipped pages due to ..
-->
       <para>
        Make <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></> log the
        number of pages skipped due to pins (Jim Nasby)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-20 [d42358e] Alvaro..: Have TRUNCATE update pgstat tuple counters
-->
       <para>
        Make <link linkend="SQL-TRUNCATE"><command>TRUNCATE</></> properly
        update the <literal>pg_stat</>* tuple counters (Alexander Shulgin)
       </para>
      </listitem>

       </itemizedlist>

       <sect4>
        <title><xref linkend="SQL-REINDEX"></title>

        <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-09 [fe263d1] Simon ..: REINDEX SCHEMA
-->
       <para>
        Allow <command>REINDEX</> to reindex an entire schema using the
        <literal>SCHEMA</> option (Sawada Masahiko)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [ecd222e] Fujii ..: Support VERBOSE option in REINDEX command.
-->
       <para>
        Add <literal>VERBOSE</> option to <command>REINDEX</> (Sawada
        Masahiko)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-09 [ae4e688] Simon ..: Silence REINDEX
-->
       <para>
        Prevent <command>REINDEX DATABASE</> and <command>SCHEMA</>
        from outputting object names, unless <literal>VERBOSE</> is used
        (Simon Riggs)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-09 [17d436d] Fujii ..: Remove obsolete FORCE option from REINDEX.
-->
       <para>
        Remove obsolete <literal>FORCE</> option from <command>REINDEX</>
        (Fujii Masao)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

     </sect4>
   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Object Manipulation</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-19 [491c029] Stephe..: Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)
-->
       <para>
        Add  <link linkend="ddl-rowsecurity">row-level security control</>
        (Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean Rasheed,
        Stephen Frost)
       </para>

       <para>
        This feature allows row-by-row control over which users can add,
        modify, or even see rows in a table.  This is controlled by new
        commands <link linkend="SQL-CREATEPOLICY"><command>CREATE</></>/<link
        linkend="SQL-ALTERPOLICY"><command>ALTER</></>/<link
        linkend="SQL-DROPPOLICY"><command>DROP POLICY</></> and <link
        linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE/DISABLE
        ROW SECURITY</></>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-22 [f41872d] Alvaro..: Implement ALTER TABLE .. SET LOGGED / UNLOGGED
-->
       <para>
        Allow changing of the <acronym>WAL</acronym>
        logging status of a table after creation with <link
        linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE ... SET LOGGED /
        UNLOGGED</></> (Fabr&iacute;zio de Royes Mello)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-26 [0076f26] Heikki..: Implement IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE SEQUENCE.
2014-11-06 [08309aa] Fujii ..: Implement IF NOT EXIST for CREATE INDEX.
2014-12-13 [e39b6f9] Andrew..: Add CINE option for CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE ..
-->
       <para>
        Add <literal>IF NOT EXISTS</> clause to <link
        linkend="SQL-CREATETABLEAS"><command>CREATE TABLE AS</></>,
        <link linkend="SQL-CREATEINDEX"><command>CREATE INDEX</></>,
        <link linkend="SQL-CREATESEQUENCE"><command>CREATE SEQUENCE</></>,
        and <link linkend="SQL-CREATEMATERIALIZEDVIEW"><command>CREATE
        MATERIALIZED VIEW</></> (Fabr&iacute;zio de Royes Mello)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-24 [1d8198b] Bruce ..: Add support for ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS ... RENAM..
-->
       <para>
        Add support for <literal>IF EXISTS</> to <link
        linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE ... RENAME
        CONSTRAINT</></> (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-09 [31eae60] Alvaro..: Allow CURRENT/SESSION_USER to be used in certai..
-->
       <para>
        Allow some DDL commands to accept <literal>CURRENT_USER</>
        or <literal>SESSION_USER</>, meaning the current user or session
        user, in place of a specific user name (Kyotaro Horiguchi,
        &Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
       </para>

       <para>
        This feature is now supported in
        <xref linkend="SQL-ALTERUSER">, <xref linkend="SQL-ALTERGROUP">,
        <xref linkend="SQL-ALTERROLE">, <xref linkend="SQL-GRANT">,
        and <command>ALTER <replaceable>object</> OWNER TO</> commands.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-23 [7eca575] Alvaro..: get_object_address: separate domain constraints..
-->
       <para>
        Support comments on <link linkend="SQL-CREATEDOMAIN">domain
        constraints</> (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-05 [0ef0396] Simon ..: Reduce lock levels of some trigger DDL and add ..
-->
       <para>
        Reduce lock levels of some create and alter trigger and foreign
        key commands (Simon Riggs, Andreas Karlsson)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-11 [fa26424] Stephe..: Allow LOCK TABLE .. ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE with IN..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="SQL-LOCK"><command>LOCK TABLE ... ROW EXCLUSIVE
        MODE</></> for those with <command>INSERT</> privileges on the
        target table (Stephen Frost)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously this command required <command>UPDATE</>, <command>DELETE</>,
        or <command>TRUNCATE</> privileges.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-23 [e5f455f] Tom Lane: Apply table and domain CHECK constraints in nam.
-->
       <para>
        Apply table and domain <literal>CHECK</> constraints in order by name
        (Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        The previous ordering was indeterminate.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-01 [15c82ef] Tom Lane: Refactor CREATE/ALTER DATABASE syntax so option..
2014-07-01 [fbb1d7d] Tom Lane: Allow CREATE/ALTER DATABASE to manipulate datis..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link
        linkend="SQL-CREATEDATABASE"><command>CREATE</></>/<link
        linkend="SQL-ALTERDATABASE"><command>ALTER DATABASE</></>
        to manipulate <structname>datistemplate</> and
        <structname>datallowconn</> (Vik Fearing)
       </para>

       <para>
        This allows these per-database settings to be
        changed without manually modifying the <link
        linkend="catalog-pg-database"><structname>pg_database</></>
        system catalog.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

     <sect4>
      <title><link linkend="ddl-foreign-data">Foreign Tables</link></title>

      <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-10 [59efda3] Tom Lane: Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.
-->
       <para>
        Add support for <xref linkend="SQL-IMPORTFOREIGNSCHEMA">
        (Ronan Dunklau, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        This command allows automatic creation of local foreign tables
        that match the structure of existing tables on a remote server.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-17 [fc2ac1f] Tom Lane: Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <literal>CHECK</> constraints to be placed on foreign tables
        (Shigeru Hanada, Etsuro Fujita)
       </para>

       <para>
        Such constraints are assumed to be enforced on the remote server,
        and are not enforced locally.  However, they are assumed to hold for
        purposes of query optimization, such
        as <link linkend="ddl-partitioning-constraint-exclusion">constraint
        exclusion</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-22 [cb1ca4d] Tom Lane: Allow foreign tables to participate in inherita..
-->
       <para>
        Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance (Shigeru Hanada,
        Etsuro Fujita)
       </para>

       <para>
        To let this work naturally, foreign tables are now allowed to have
        check constraints marked as not valid, and to set storage
        and <type>OID</> characteristics, even though these operations are
        effectively no-ops for a foreign table.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-01 [e7cb7ee] Robert..: Allow FDWs and custom scan providers to replace..
2015-05-10 [1a8a4e5] Tom Lane: Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown pa..
-->
       <para>
        Allow foreign data wrappers and custom scans to implement join
        pushdown (KaiGai Kohei)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

     </sect4>

     <sect4>
      <title><link linkend="event-triggers">Event Triggers</link></title>

      <itemizedlist>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-11 [b488c58] Alvaro..: Allow on-the-fly capture of DDL event details
-->
        <para>
         Whenever a <literal>ddl_command_end</> event trigger is installed,
         capture details of <acronym>DDL</> activity for it to inspect
         (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
        </para>

        <para>
         This information is available through a set-returning function <link
         linkend="pg-event-trigger-ddl-command-end-functions"><function>pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands()</></link>,
         or by inspection of C data structures if that function doesn't
         provide enough detail.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-08 [618c943] Simon ..: Event Trigger for table_rewrite
-->
        <para>
         Allow event triggers on table rewrites caused by <link
         linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE</></> (Dimitri
         Fontaine)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-23 [296f3a6] Alvaro..: Support more commands in event triggers
-->
        <para>
         Add event trigger support for database-level <link
         linkend="SQL-COMMENT"><command>COMMENT</></>, <link
         linkend="SQL-SECURITY-LABEL"><command>SECURITY LABEL</></>,
         and <link linkend="SQL-GRANT"><command>GRANT</></>/<link
         linkend="SQL-REVOKE"><command>REVOKE</></> (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-30 [72dd233] Alvaro..: pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: Add name/args..
2015-04-06 [e9a077c] Alvaro..: pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add is_temp c..
-->
        <para>
         Add columns to the output of <link
         linkend="pg-event-trigger-sql-drop-functions"><function>pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects</></>
         (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
        </para>

        <para>
         This allows simpler processing of delete operations.
        </para>
       </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

     </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Data Types</title>

    <itemizedlist>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-09 [57b1085] Peter ..: Allow empty content in xml type
-->
      <para>
       Allow the <link linkend="datatype-xml"><type>xml</></> data type
       to accept empty or all-whitespace content values (Peter Eisentraut)
      </para>

      <para>
       This is required by the <acronym>SQL</>/<acronym>XML</>
       specification.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-21 [6f04368] Peter ..: Allow input format xxxx-xxxx-xxxx for macaddr ..
-->
      <para>
       Allow <link linkend="datatype-macaddr"><type>macaddr</></> input
       using the format <literal>xxxx-xxxx-xxxx</> (Herwin Weststrate)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-18 [417f924] Bruce ..: interval:  tighten precision specification
-->
      <para>
       Disallow non-SQL-standard syntax for <link
       linkend="datatype-interval-input"><type>interval</></link> with
       both precision and field specifications (Bruce Momjian)
      </para>

      <para>
       Per the standard, such type specifications should be written as,
       for example, <literal>INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND(2)</>.
       <productname>PostgreSQL</> formerly allowed this to be written as
       <literal>INTERVAL(2) MINUTE TO SECOND</>, but it must now be
       written in the standard way.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-01 [89840d7] Tom Lane: Provide real selectivity estimators for inet/ci..
-->
      <para>
       Add selectivity estimators for <link
       linkend="datatype-inet"><type>inet</></>/<link
       linkend="datatype-cidr"><type>cidr</></> operators and improve
       estimators for text search functions (Emre Hasegeli, Tom Lane)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-09 [0c90f67] Andrew..: Add new OID alias type regrole
2015-05-09 [cb9fa80] Andrew..: Add new OID alias type regnamespace
-->
      <para>
       Add data
       types <link linkend="datatype-oid-table"><type>regrole</></link>
       and <link linkend="datatype-oid-table"><type>regnamespace</></link>
       to simplify entering and pretty-printing the <type>OID</> of a role
       or namespace (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    <sect4>
     <title><link linkend="datatype-json"><acronym>JSON</></link></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-12 [c694701] Andrew..: Additional functions and operators for jsonb
2015-05-31 [37def42] Andrew..: Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it ..
-->
       <para>
        Add <type>jsonb</> functions <link
        linkend="functions-json-processing-table"><function>jsonb_set()</></>
        and <link
        linkend="functions-json-processing-table"><function>jsonb_pretty()</></>
        (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan, Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-12 [7e354ab] Andrew..: Add several generator functions for jsonb that ..
-->
       <para>
        Add <type>jsonb</> generator functions <link
        linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>to_jsonb()</></>,
        <link
        linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>jsonb_object()</></>,
        <link
        linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>jsonb_build_object()</></>,
        <link
        linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>jsonb_build_array()</></>,
        <link
        linkend="functions-aggregate-table"><function>jsonb_agg()</></>,
        and <link
        linkend="functions-aggregate-table"><function>jsonb_object_agg()</></>
        (Andrew Dunstan)
       </para>

       <para>
        Equivalent functions already existed for type <type>json</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-03 [b67f1ce] Tom Lane: Reduce json <=> jsonb casts from explicit-only..
-->
       <para>
        Reduce casting requirements to/from <link
        linkend="datatype-json"><type>json</></> and <link
        linkend="datatype-json"><type>jsonb</></> (Tom Lane)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-06-11 [908e234] Andrew..: Rename jsonb - text[] operator to #- to avoid a..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <type>text</>, <type>text</> array, and <type>integer</>
        values to be <link linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table">subtracted</>
        from <type>jsonb</> documents (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-12 [c694701] Andrew..: Additional functions and operators for jsonb
-->
       <para>
        Add <type>jsonb</> <link
        linkend="functions-jsonb-op-table"><literal>||</></> operator
        (Dmitry Dolgov, Andrew Dunstan)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-12 [237a882] Andrew..: Add json_strip_nulls and jsonb_strip_nulls fun..
-->
       <para>
        Add <link
        linkend="functions-json-processing-table"><function>json_strip_nulls()</></>
        and <link
        linkend="functions-json-processing-table"><function>jsonb_strip_nulls()</></>
        functions to remove JSON null values from documents
        (Andrew Dunstan)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Functions</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-11 [1871c89] Fujii ..: Add generate_series(numeric, numeric).
-->
       <para>
        Add <link linkend="functions-srf"><function>generate_series()</></>
        for <type>numeric</> values (Plato Malugin)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-25 [bac2739] Tom Lane: Support arrays as input to array_agg() and ARRA..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link
        linkend="functions-aggregate-table"><function>array_agg()</></> and
        <function>ARRAY()</> to take arrays as inputs (Ali Akbar, Tom Lane)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-18 [13dbc7a] Alvaro..: array_offset() and array_offsets()
2015-03-30 [97690ea] Alvaro..: Change array_offset to return subscripts, not o..
-->
       <para>
        Add functions <link
        linkend="array-functions-table"><function>array_position()</></>
        and <link
        linkend="array-functions-table"><function>array_positions()</></>
        to return subscripts of array values (Pavel Stehule)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-15 [4520ba6] Heikki..: Add point <-> polygon distance operator.
-->
       <para>
        Add a <type>point</>-to-<type>polygon</> distance operator
        <link linkend="functions-geometry-op-table">&lt;-&gt;</>
        (Alexander Korotkov)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-27 [8167a38] Jeff D..: Allow multibyte characters as escape in SIMILA..
-->
       <para>
        Allow multibyte characters as escapes in <link
        linkend="functions-similarto-regexp"><literal>SIMILAR TO</></>
        and <link linkend="functions-string-sql"><literal>SUBSTRING</></>
        (Jeff Davis)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously, only a single-byte character was allowed as an escape.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-09 [e80252d] Tom Lane: Add width_bucket(anyelement, anyarray).
-->
       <para>
        Add a <link
        linkend="functions-math-func-table"><function>width_bucket()</></>
        variant that supports any sortable data type and non-uniform bucket
        widths (Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-06-28 [cb2acb1] Heikki..: Add missing_ok option to the SQL functions for..
-->
       <para>
        Add an optional <replaceable>missing_ok</> argument to <link
        linkend="functions-admin-genfile-table"><function>pg_read_file()</></>
        and related functions (Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-10 [865f14a] Robert..: Allow named parameters to be specified using =>..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="sql-syntax-calling-funcs"><literal>=&gt;</></>
        to specify named parameters in function calls (Pavel Stehule)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously only <literal>:=</> could be used.  This requires removing
        the possibility for <literal>=&gt;</> to be a user-defined operator.
        Creation of user-defined <literal>=&gt;</> operators has been issuing
        warnings since PostgreSQL 9.0.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-25 [06bf0dd] Tom Lane: Upgrade src/port/rint.c to be POSIX-compliant.
-->
       <para>
        Add <acronym>POSIX</>-compliant rounding for platforms that use
        PostgreSQL-supplied rounding functions (Pedro Gimeno Fortea)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    <sect4>
     <title>System Information Functions and Views</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-23 [d7ee82e] Alvaro..: Add SQL-callable pg_get_object_address
2014-12-30 [a676201] Alvaro..: Add pg_identify_object_as_address
-->
       <para>
        Add function <link
        linkend="functions-info-object-table"><function>pg_get_object_address()</></>
        to return <type>OID</>s that uniquely
        identify an object, and function <link
        linkend="functions-info-object-table"><function>pg_identify_object_as_address()</></>
        to return object information based on <type>OID</>s (&Aacute;lvaro
        Herrera)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-19 [bf03889] Stephe..: GetUserId() changes to has_privs_of_role()
-->
       <para>
        Loosen security checks for viewing queries in <link
        linkend="pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</></>,
        executing <link
        linkend="functions-admin-signal-table"><function>pg_cancel_backend()</></>,
        and executing <link
        linkend="functions-admin-signal-table"><function>pg_terminate_backend()</></>
        (Stephen Frost)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously, only the specific role owning the target session could
        perform these operations; now membership in that role is sufficient.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-19 [2fb7a75] Tom Lane: Add pg_stat_get_snapshot_timestamp() to show s..
-->
       <para>
        Add <link
        linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_get_snapshot_timestamp()</></>
        to output the time stamp of the statistics snapshot (Matt Kelly)
       </para>

       <para>
        This represents the last time the snapshot file was written to
        the file system.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-10 [36ad1a8] Bruce ..: Implement mxid_age() to compute multi-xid age
-->
       <para>
        Add <link
        linkend="vacuum-for-multixact-wraparound"><function>mxid_age()</></>
        to compute multi-xid age (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title>Aggregates</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-28 [6c40f83] Tom Lane: Add min and max aggregates for inet/cidr data t..
-->
       <para>
        Add <function>min()</>/<function>max()</> aggregates
        for <link linkend="datatype-inet"><type>inet</></>/<link
        linkend="datatype-cidr"><type>cidr</></> data types (Haribabu
        Kommi)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-20 [8122e14] Andres..: Add, optional, support for 128bit integers.
2015-03-20 [959277a] Andres..: Use 128-bit math to accelerate some aggregation..
-->
       <para>
        Use 128-bit integers, where supported, as accumulators for some
        aggregate functions (Andreas Karlsson)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Server-Side Languages</title>

    <itemizedlist>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-03 [8b6010b] Tom Lane: Improve support for composite types in PL/Python.
-->
      <para>
       Improve support for composite types in <link
       linkend="plpython"><application>PL/Python</></> (Ed Behn, Ronan
       Dunklau)
      </para>

      <para>
       This allows <application>PL/Python</> functions to return arrays
       of composite types.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-11 [1ce7a57] Peter ..: PL/Python: Avoid lossiness in float conversion
-->
      <para>
       Reduce lossiness of <link
       linkend="plpython"><application>PL/Python</></> floating-point value
       conversions (Marko Kreen)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-26 [cac7658] Peter ..: Add transforms feature
-->
      <para>
       Allow specification of conversion routines between <acronym>SQL</>
       data types and data types of procedural languages (Peter Eisentraut)
      </para>

      <para>
       This change adds new commands <link
       linkend="SQL-CREATETRANSFORM"><command>CREATE</></>/<link
       linkend="SQL-DROPTRANSFORM"><command>DROP TRANSFORM</></>.
       This also adds optional transformations between the <link
       linkend="hstore"><application>hstore</></> and <link
       linkend="ltree"><application>ltree</></> types to/from <link
       linkend="plperl"><application>PL/Perl</></> and <link
       linkend="plpython"><application>PL/Python</></>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

     <sect4>
      <title><link linkend="plpgsql">PL/pgSQL</link> Server-Side Language</title>

      <itemizedlist>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-14 [1dc5ebc] Tom Lane: Support "expanded" objects, particularly arrays..
2015-02-16 [e983c4d] Tom Lane: Rationalize the APIs of array element/slice acc..
2015-02-18 [56a79a8] Tom Lane: Split array_push into separate array_append and..
2015-02-16 [9e3ad1a] Tom Lane: Use fast path in plpgsql's RETURN/RETURN NEXT i..
-->
      <para>
       Improve <link linkend="plpgsql"><application>PL/pgSQL</></> array
       performance (Tom Lane)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-25 [a4847fc] Tom Lane: Add an ASSERT statement in plpgsql.
-->
      <para>
       Add an <link linkend="plpgsql-statements-assert"><command>ASSERT</></>
       statement in <application>PL/pgSQL</> (Pavel Stehule)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-25 [bb1b8f6] Tom Lane: De-reserve most statement-introducing keywords ..
-->
      <para>
       Allow more <link linkend="plpgsql"><application>PL/pgSQL</></>
       keywords to be used as identifiers (Tom Lane)
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Client Applications</title>

    <itemizedlist>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-11 [83aca89] Peter ..: Move pg_archivecleanup from contrib/ to src/bin/
2015-04-19 [00882d9] Peter ..: Move pg_test_fsync from contrib/ to src/bin/
2015-04-20 [528c2e4] Peter ..: Move pg_test_timing from contrib/ to src/bin/
2015-04-21 [b0a738f] Peter ..: Move pg_xlogdump from contrib/ to src/bin/
-->
      <para>
       Move <link
       linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><application>pg_archivecleanup</></>,
       <link linkend="pgtestfsync"><application>pg_test_fsync</></>,
       <link linkend="pgtesttiming"><application>pg_test_timing</></>,
       and <link linkend="pgxlogdump"><application>pg_xlogdump</></>
       from <filename>contrib</> to <filename>src/bin</> (Peter Eisentraut)
      </para>

      <para>
       This should result in these programs being installed by default in
       most installations.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-23 [61081e7] Heikki..: Add pg_rewind, for re-synchronizing a master se..
-->
      <para>
       Add <link linkend="app-pgrewind"><application>pg_rewind</></>,
       which allows re-synchronizing a master server after failback
       (Heikki Linnakangas)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-06 [d9f38c7] Andres..: Add support for managing physical replication s..
-->
      <para>
       Allow <link
       linkend="app-pgreceivexlog"><application>pg_receivexlog</></>
       to manage physical replication slots (Michael Paquier)
      </para>

      <para>
       This is controlled via new <option>--create-slot</> and
       <option>--drop-slot</> options.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-18 [c4f99d2] Fujii ..: Add &#8211;&#8211;synchronous option to pg_receivexlog, for..
-->
      <para>
       Allow <link
       linkend="app-pgreceivexlog"><application>pg_receivexlog</></>
       to synchronously flush <acronym>WAL</> to storage using new
       <option>--synchronous</> option (Furuya Osamu, Fujii Masao)
      </para>

      <para>
       Without this, <acronym>WAL</> files are fsync'ed only on close.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-01-23 [a179232] Alvaro..: vacuumdb: enable parallel mode
-->
      <para>
       Allow <link linkend="APP-VACUUMDB"><application>vacuumdb</></> to
       vacuum in parallel using new <option>--jobs</> option (Dilip Kumar)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-11-12 [5094da9] Alvaro..: vacuumdb: don't prompt for passwords over and ..
-->
      <para>
       In <link linkend="APP-VACUUMDB"><application>vacuumdb</></>, do not
       prompt for the same password repeatedly when multiple connections
       are necessary (Haribabu Kommi, Michael Paquier)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [458a077] Fujii ..: Support &#8211;&#8211;verbose option in reindexdb.
-->
      <para>
       Add <option>--verbose</> option to <link
       linkend="APP-REINDEXDB"><application>reindexdb</></> (Sawada
       Masahiko)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-12 [72d422a] Andrew..: Map basebackup tablespaces using a tablespace_..
-->
      <para>
       Make <link linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</></>
       use a tablespace mapping file when using <application>tar</> format,
       to support symbolic links and file paths of 100+ characters in length
       on <systemitem class="osname">MS Windows</> (Amit Kapila)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-19 [728f152] Andres..: Add rmgr callback to name xlog record types for..
2014-09-19 [bdd5726] Andres..: Add the capability to display summary statistic..
-->
      <para>
       Add <link linkend="pgxlogdump"><application>pg_xlogdump</></> option
       <option>--stats</> to display summary statistics (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

     <sect4>
      <title><xref linkend="APP-PSQL"></title>

      <itemizedlist>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-31 [9d9991c] Bruce ..: psql:  add asciidoc output format
-->
        <para>
         Allow <application>psql</> to produce AsciiDoc output (Szymon Guz)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-10 [5b214c5] Fujii ..: Add new ECHO mode 'errors' that displays only ..
-->
        <para>
         Add an <literal>errors</> mode that displays only failed commands
         to <application>psql</>'s <varname>ECHO</> variable
         (Pavel Stehule)
        </para>

        <para>
         This behavior can also be selected with <application>psql</>'s
         <option>-b</> option.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-12 [a2dabf0] Stephe..: Add unicode_{column|header|border}_style to psql
-->
        <para>
         Provide separate column, header, and border linestyle control
         in <application>psql</>'s unicode linestyle (Pavel Stehule)
        </para>

        <para>
         Single or double lines are supported; the default is
         <literal>single</>.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-02 [51bb795] Andres..: Add psql PROMPT variable showing which line of ..
-->
        <para>
         Add new option <literal>%l</> in <application>psql</>'s <link
         linkend="APP-PSQL-variables"><envar>PROMPT</></> variables
         to display the current multiline statement line number
         (Sawada Masahiko)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-28 [7655f4c] Andrew..: Add a pager_min_lines setting to psql
-->
        <para>
         Add <literal>\pset</> option <link
         linkend="APP-PSQL-meta-commands"><varname>pager_min_lines</></>
         to control pager invocation (Andrew Dunstan)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-21 [4077fb4] Andrew..: Fix an error in psql that overcounted output l..
-->
        <para>
         Improve <application>psql</> line counting used when deciding
         to invoke the pager (Andrew Dunstan)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-12-03 [07338cb] Tom Lane: Clean up some psql issues around handling of t..
2015-12-08 [e90371d] Tom Lane: Make failure to open psql log-file fatal.
-->
        <para>
         <application>psql</> now fails if the file specified by
         an <option>--output</> or <option>--log-file</> switch cannot be
         written (Tom Lane, Daniel V&eacute;rit&eacute;)
        </para>

        <para>
         Previously, it effectively ignored the switch in such cases.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-12 [bd40951] Andres..: Minimal psql tab completion support for SET se..
-->
        <para>
         Add <application>psql</> tab completion when setting the
         <xref linkend="guc-search-path"> variable (Jeff Janes)
        </para>

        <para>
         Currently only the first schema can be tab-completed.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-23 [631e7f6] Heikki..: Improve tab-completion of DROP and ALTER ENABLE..
-->
        <para>
         Improve <application>psql</>'s tab completion for triggers and rules
         (Andreas Karlsson)
        </para>
       </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

     <sect5>
      <title><link linkend="APP-PSQL-meta-commands">Backslash Commands</link></title>

      <itemizedlist>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-10 [07c8651] Andres..: Add new psql help topics, accessible to both..
-->
        <para>
         Add <application>psql</> <command>\?</> help sections
         <literal>variables</> and <literal>options</> (Pavel Stehule)
        </para>

        <para>
         <literal>\? variables</> shows <application>psql</>'s special
         variables and <literal>\? options</> shows the command-line options.
         <command>\? commands</> shows the meta-commands, which is the
         traditional output and remains the default.  These help displays
         can also be obtained with the command-line
         option <literal>--help=<replaceable>section</></literal>.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-14 [ee80f04] Alvaro..: psql: Show tablespace size in \db+
-->
        <para>
         Show tablespace size in <application>psql</>'s <literal>\db+</>
         (Fabr&iacute;zio de Royes Mello)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-09 [a6f3c1f] Magnus..: Show owner of types in psql \dT+
-->
        <para>
         Show data type owners in <application>psql</>'s <literal>\dT+</>
         (Magnus Hagander)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-04 [f6f654f] Fujii ..: Allow \watch to display query execution time if..
-->
        <para>
         Allow <application>psql</>'s <command>\watch</> to output
         <command>\timing</> information (Fujii Masao)
        </para>

        <para>
         Also prevent <option>--echo-hidden</> from echoing
         <command>\watch</> queries, since that is generally unwanted.
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-22 [eca2b9b] Andrew..: Rework echo_hidden for \sf and \ef from commit ..
-->
        <para>
         Make <application>psql</>'s <literal>\sf</> and <literal>\ef</>
         commands honor <envar>ECHO_HIDDEN</> (Andrew Dunstan)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-12 [e15c4ab] Fujii ..: Add tab-completion for \unset and valid setting..
-->
        <para>
         Improve <application>psql</> tab completion for <command>\set</>,
         <command>\unset</>, and <literal>:variable</> names (Pavel
         Stehule)
        </para>
       </listitem>

       <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-10 [095d401] Robert..: Tab complete second argument to \c with role n..
-->
        <para>
         Allow tab completion of role names
         in <application>psql</> <literal>\c</> commands (Ian Barwick)
        </para>
       </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

     </sect5>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title><xref linkend="APP-PGDUMP"></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-17 [be1cc8f] Simon ..: Add pg_dump &#8211;&#8211;snapshot option
-->
       <para>
        Allow <application>pg_dump</> to share a snapshot taken by another
        session using <option>--snapshot</> (Simon Riggs, Michael Paquier)
       </para>

       <para>
        The remote snapshot must have been exported by
        <function>pg_export_snapshot()</> or logical replication slot
        creation.  This can be used to share a consistent snapshot
        across multiple <application>pg_dump</> processes.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-11-21 [5f5e68b] Tom Lane: Adopt the GNU convention for handling tar-arch..
-->
       <para>
        Support table sizes exceeding 8GB in tar archive format (Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        The POSIX standard for tar format does not allow elements of a tar
        archive to exceed 8GB, but most modern implementations of tar
        support an extension that does allow it.  Use the extension format
        when necessary, rather than failing.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-07 [7700597] Tom Lane: In pg_dump, show server and pg_dump versions w..
-->
       <para>
        Make <application>pg_dump</> always print the server and
        <application>pg_dump</> versions (Jing Wang)
       </para>

       <para>
        Previously, version information was only printed in
        <option>--verbose</> mode.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-06-04 [232cd63] Fujii ..: Remove -i/-ignore-version option from pg_dump..
-->
       <para>
        Remove the long-ignored <option>-i</>/<option>--ignore-version</>
        option from <application>pg_dump</>, <application>pg_dumpall</>,
        and <application>pg_restore</> (Fujii Masao)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title><xref linkend="app-pg-ctl"></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-25 [ebe30ad] Bruce ..: pg_ctl, pg_upgrade:  allow multiple -o/-O opti..
-->
       <para>
        Support multiple <application>pg_ctl</> <option>-o</> options,
        concatenating their values (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-17 [c0e4520] Magnus..: Add option to pg_ctl to choose event source for..
-->
       <para>
        Allow control of <application>pg_ctl</>'s event source logging
        on <systemitem class="osname">MS Windows</> (MauMau)
       </para>

       <para>
        This only controls <application>pg_ctl</>, not the server, which
        has separate settings in <filename>postgresql.conf</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-11-08 [bdb42ba] Noah M..: Don't connect() to a wildcard address in test_..
-->
       <para>
        If the server's listen address is set to a wildcard value
        (<literal>0.0.0.0</> in IPv4 or <literal>::</> in IPv6), connect via
        the loopback address rather than trying to use the wildcard address
        literally (Kondo Yuta)
       </para>

       <para>
        This fix primarily affects Windows, since on other platforms
        <application>pg_ctl</> will prefer to use a Unix-domain socket.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title><xref linkend="pgupgrade"></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-14 [9fa8b0e] Peter ..: Move pg_upgrade from contrib/ to src/bin/
-->
       <para>
        Move <application>pg_upgrade</> from <filename>contrib</> to
        <filename>src/bin</> (Peter Eisentraut)
       </para>

       <para>
        In connection with this change, the functionality previously
        provided by the <application>pg_upgrade_support</> module has been
        moved into the core server.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-25 [ebe30ad] Bruce ..: pg_ctl, pg_upgrade:  allow multiple -o/-O optio..
-->
       <para>
        Support multiple <application>pg_upgrade</>
        <option>-o</>/<option>-O</> options,
        concatenating their values (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-10 [33755e8] Heikki..: Change the way encoding and locale checks are d..
-->
       <para>
        Improve database collation comparisons in
        <application>pg_upgrade</> (Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-25 [2209b39] Bruce ..: pg_upgrade:  remove support for 8.3 old clusters
-->
       <para>
        Remove support for upgrading from 8.3 clusters (Bruce Momjian)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

    <sect4>
     <title><xref linkend="pgbench"></title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-13 [81134af] Peter ..: Move pgbench from contrib/ to src/bin/
-->
       <para>
        Move pgbench from <filename>contrib</> to <filename>src/bin</>
        (Peter Eisentraut)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-09-30 [3c4c5ac] Tatsuo..: Fix incorrect tps number calculation in "exclu..
-->
       <para>
        Fix calculation of TPS number <quote>excluding connections
        establishing</> (Tatsuo Ishii, Fabien Coelho)
       </para>

       <para>
        The overhead for connection establishment was miscalculated whenever
        the number of pgbench threads was less than the number of client
        connections.  Although this is clearly a bug, we won't back-patch it
        into pre-9.5 branches since it makes TPS numbers not comparable to
        previous results.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-13 [98aed6c] Heikki..: Add &#8211;&#8211;latency-limit option to pgbench.
-->
       <para>
        Allow counting of pgbench transactions that take over a specified
        amount of time (Fabien Coelho)
       </para>

       <para>
        This is controlled by a new <option>--latency-limit</> option.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-30 [ed802e7] Robert..: pgbench: Allow \setrandom to generate Gaussian..
-->
       <para>
        Allow pgbench to generate Gaussian/exponential distributions
        using <command>\setrandom</> (Kondo Mitsumasa, Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-02 [878fdcb] Robert..: pgbench: Add a real expression syntax to \set
-->
       <para>
        Allow <application>pgbench</>'s <command>\set</> command to handle
        arithmetic expressions containing more than one operator, and add
        <literal>%</> (modulo) to the set of operators it supports
        (Robert Haas, Fabien Coelho)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Source Code</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-20 [2c03216] Heikki..: Revamp the WAL record format.
-->
       <para>
        Simplify <link linkend="wal"><acronym>WAL</></> record format
        (Heikki Linnakangas)
       </para>

       <para>
        This allows external tools to more easily track what blocks
        are modified.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-15 [4f1b890] Andres..: Merge the various forms of transaction commit &..
-->
       <para>
        Improve the representation of transaction commit and abort WAL
        records (Andres Freund)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-25 [b64d92f] Andres..: Add a basic atomic ops API abstracting away pla..
-->
       <para>
        Add atomic memory operations <acronym>API</> (Andres Freund)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-07 [0b03e59] Robert..: Introduce custom path and scan providers.
2014-11-20 [a34fa8e] Tom Lane: Initial code review for CustomScan patch.
2014-11-21 [c2ea228] Tom Lane: Simplify API for initially hooking custom-path ..
2014-11-21 [4477704] Tom Lane: Rearrange CustomScan API.
-->
       <para>
        Allow custom path and scan methods (KaiGai Kohei, Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        This allows extensions greater control over the optimizer and
        executor.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-12 [afb9249] Tom Lane: Add support for doing late row locking in FDWs.
-->
       <para>
        Allow foreign data wrappers to do post-filter locking (Etsuro
        Fujita)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-08 [168d580] Andres..: Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHI..
2015-05-08 [2c8f483] Andres..: Represent columns requiring insert and update p..
-->
       <para>
        Foreign tables can now take part in <command>INSERT ... ON CONFLICT
        DO NOTHING</> queries (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas,
        Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        Foreign data wrappers must be modified to handle this.
        <command>INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE</> is not supported on
        foreign tables.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-18 [4a14f13] Tom Lane: Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-..
-->
       <para>
        Improve <function>hash_create()</>'s API for selecting
        simple-binary-key hash functions (Teodor Sigaev, Tom Lane)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-30 [924bcf4] Robert..: Create an infrastructure for parallel computati..
2014-10-31 [2bd9e41] Robert..: Support frontend-backend protocol communication..
-->
       <para>
        Improve parallel execution infrastructure (Robert Haas, Amit
        Kapila, Noah Misch, Rushabh Lathia, Jeevan Chalke)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-28 [a6d488c] Andres..: Remove Alpha and Tru64 support.
-->
       <para>
        Remove <productname>Alpha</> (<acronym>CPU</>) and <systemitem
        class="osname">Tru64</> (OS) ports (Andres Freund)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-06 [4893ccd] Robert..: Remove swpb-based spinlock implementation for A..
-->
       <para>
        Remove swap-byte-based spinlock implementation for
        <acronym>ARM</>v5 and earlier <acronym>CPU</>s (Robert Haas)
       </para>

       <para>
        <acronym>ARM</>v5's weak memory ordering made this locking
        implementation unsafe.  Spinlock support is still possible on
        newer gcc implementations with atomics support.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-02-24 [23a7835] Peter ..: Error when creating names too long for tar for..
-->
       <para>
        Generate an error when excessively long (100+ character) file
        paths are written to tar files (Peter Eisentraut)
       </para>

       <para>
        Tar does not support such overly-long paths.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-19 [0b28ea7] Tom Lane: Avoid collation dependence in indexes of syste..
-->
       <para>
        Change index operator class for columns <link
        linkend="catalog-pg-seclabel"><structname>pg_seclabel</></>.<structname>provider</>
        and <link
        linkend="catalog-pg-shseclabel"><structname>pg_shseclabel</></>.<structname>provider</>
        to be <literal>text_pattern_ops</> (Tom Lane)
       </para>

       <para>
        This avoids possible problems with these indexes when different
        databases of a cluster have different default collations.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-09 [0709b7e] Robert..: Change the spinlock primitives to function as c..
-->
       <para>
        Change the spinlock primitives to function as compiler barriers
        (Robert Haas)
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    <sect4>
     <title>MS Windows</title>

     <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-12-08 [519b075] Simon ..: Use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime directly in win32
2014-12-08 [8001fe6] Simon ..: Windows: use GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime if ..
-->
       <para>
        Allow higher-precision time stamp resolution on <systemitem
        class="osname">Windows 8</>, <systemitem class="osname">Windows
        Server 2012</>, and later Windows systems (Craig Ringer)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-18 [f9dead5] Alvaro..: Install shared libraries to bin/ in Windows un..
-->
       <para>
        Install shared libraries to <filename>bin</> in <systemitem
        class="osname">MS Windows</> (Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2015-04-16 [22d0053] Alvaro..: MSVC: install src/test/modules together with c..
-->
       <para>
        Install <filename>src/test/modules</> together with
        <filename>contrib</> on <productname>MSVC</> builds (Michael
        Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-12 [8d9a0e8] Magnus..: Support &#8211;&#8211;with-extra-version equivalent functi..
-->
       <para>
        Allow <link linkend="install-procedure">configure</>'s
        <option>--with-extra-version</> option to be honored by the
        <productname>MSVC</> build (Michael Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-14 [91f03ba] Noah M..: MSVC: Recognize PGFILEDESC in contrib and conv..
-->
       <para>
        Pass <envar>PGFILEDESC</> into <productname>MSVC</> contrib builds
        (Michael Paquier)
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-07-14 [c4a448e] Noah M..: MSVC: Apply icons to all binaries having them ..
-->
       <para>
        Add icons to all <productname>MSVC</>-built binaries and version
        information to all <systemitem class="osname">MS Windows</>
        binaries (Noah Misch)
       </para>

       <para>
        MinGW already had such icons.
       </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
<!--
2014-09-10 [311da16] Andres..: Add support for optional_argument to our own ge..
-->
       <para>
        Add optional-argument support to the internal
        <function>getopt_long()</> implementation (Michael Paquier,
        Andres Freund)
       </para>

       <para>
        This is used by the <productname>MSVC</> build.
       </para>
      </listitem>

     </itemizedlist>

    </sect4>

   </sect3>

   <sect3>
    <title>Additional Modules</title>

    <itemizedlist>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-03-27 [717f709] Andrew..: Add stats for min, max, mean, stddev times to p..
-->
      <para>
       Add statistics for minimum, maximum,
       mean, and standard deviation times to <link
       linkend="pgstatstatements-columns"><application>pg_stat_statements</></>
       (Mitsumasa Kondo, Andrew Dunstan)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-10-01 [32984d8] Heikki..: Add functions for dealing with PGP armor heade..
-->
      <para>
       Add <link linkend="pgcrypto"><application>pgcrypto</></> function
       <function>pgp_armor_headers()</> to extract <productname>PGP</>
       armor headers (Marko Tiikkaja, Heikki Linnakangas)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-30 [97c40ce] Tom Lane: Allow empty replacement strings in contrib/unac..
-->
      <para>
       Allow empty replacement strings in <link
       linkend="unaccent"><application>unaccent</></> (Mohammad Alhashash)
      </para>

      <para>
       This is useful in languages where diacritic signs are represented
       as separate characters.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-06-30 [1b24887] Tom Lane: Allow multi-character source strings in contrib..
-->
      <para>
       Allow multicharacter source strings in <link
       linkend="unaccent"><application>unaccent</></> (Tom Lane)
      </para>

      <para>
       This could be useful in languages where diacritic signs are
       represented as separate characters.  It also allows more complex
       unaccent dictionaries.
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-15 [9689290] Simon ..: TABLESAMPLE system_rows(limit)
2015-05-15 [149f6f1] Simon ..: TABLESAMPLE system_time(limit)
-->
      <para>
       Add <filename>contrib</> modules <link
       linkend="tsm-system-rows"><application>tsm_system_rows</></> and
       <link linkend="tsm-system-time"><application>tsm_system_time</></>
       to allow additional table sampling methods (Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-21 [3a82bc6] Heikki..: Add pageinspect functions for inspecting GIN in..
-->
      <para>
       Add <link linkend="GIN"><acronym>GIN</></>
       index inspection functions to <link
       linkend="pageinspect"><application>pageinspect</></> (Heikki
       Linnakangas, Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-08-22 [f577919] Andres..: Add pinning_backends column to the pg_buffercac..
-->
      <para>
       Add information about buffer pins to <link
       linkend="pgbuffercache"><application>pg_buffercache</></> display
       (Andres Freund)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2015-05-13 [5850b20] Andres..: Add pgstattuple_approx() to the pgstattuple ext..
-->
      <para>
       Allow <link linkend="pgstattuple"><application>pgstattuple</></>
       to report approximate answers with less overhead using
       <function>pgstattuple_approx()</> (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
      </para>
     </listitem>

     <listitem>
<!--
2014-11-29 [22dfd11] Alvaro..: Move test modules from contrib to src/test/modu..
2014-12-01 [df761e3] Alvaro..: Move security_label test
-->
      <para>
       Move <application>dummy_seclabel</>, <application>test_shm_mq</>,
       <application>test_parser</>, and <application>worker_spi</>
       from <filename>contrib</> to <filename>src/test/modules</>
       (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
      </para>

      <para>
       These modules are only meant for server testing, so they do not need
       to be built or installed when packaging <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
      </para>
     </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

   </sect3>

  </sect2>

 </sect1>
