Commit 2804442d authored by Neil Conway's avatar Neil Conway

Minor incremental improvements to the release notes.

parent 1d096904
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......@@ -64,13 +64,14 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
New FILLFACTOR support for tables and indexes
New <literal>FILLFACTOR</literal> support for tables and indexes
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Many query optimization improvements
Many query optimization improvements, including support for
reordering outer joins
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -94,8 +95,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Query enhancements including RETURNING values, multi-VALUES,
support, and self-joins for DELETE
Query enhancements including <literal>RETURNING</literal>
values, multi-<literal>VALUES</literal>, support, and
self-joins for <command>DELETE</command>
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -107,13 +109,15 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Index creation without blocking INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
Index creation without blocking concurrent
<command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</>
commands
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
COPY TO support for SELECT statements
<command>COPY TO</command> support for <command>SELECT</command> statements
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -697,14 +701,14 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of statistics monitoring, especially
<literal>stats_command_string</> (Tom, Bruce)
<varname>stats_command_string</> (Tom, Bruce)
</para>
<para>
This release sets <varname>stats_command_string</> to
<literal>on</> by default, now that its overhead is minimal.
This means <literal>pg_stat_activity</> now will show all
active queries by default.
This release enables <varname>stats_command_string</> by
default, now that its overhead is minimal. This means
<literal>pg_stat_activity</> will now show all active queries
by default.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -1116,10 +1120,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
This allow inheritance to be added and removed dynamically,
rather than just at table creation and destruction. This
is very valuable for table partitioning using constraint
exclusion.
This allow inheritance to be adjusted dynamically, rather than
just at table creation and destruction. This is very valuable
for table partitioning using constraint exclusion.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -1306,8 +1309,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Interval computation improvements (Michael Glaesemann,
Bruce)
Interval computation improvements (Michael Glaesemann, Bruce)
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -1390,7 +1392,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
<listitem>
<para>
Properly enforce <literal>DOMAIN</> check constraints
Properly enforce domain <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints
everywhere (Neil, Tom)
</para>
......@@ -1893,7 +1895,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
</para>
<para>
Rtree has been re-implemented using <acronym>GIST</>.
Rtree has been re-implemented using <acronym>GIST</>. Among
other differences, this means that rtree indexes now have
support for crash recovery via write-ahead logging (WAL).
</para>
</listitem>
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