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</sect3> </sect3>
<sect3> <sect3>
<title>Server Changes</title> <title>General Server Changes</title>
<itemizedlist> <itemizedlist>
<listitem> <listitem>
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</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Autovacuum now reports its activity start time in
<literal>pg_stat_activity</literal> (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Automatically re-plan cached queries when table Automatically re-plan cached queries when table
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<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Support Security Service Provider Interface (<acronym>SSPI</>) for Add a <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> parameter to control
authentication on Windows (Magnus) the tablespaces for temporary tables and files (Jaime Casanova,
Albert Cervera, Bernd Helmle)
</para>
<para>
This parameter defines a list of tablespaces to be used. This
enables spreading the I/O load across multiple tablespaces. A random
tablespace is chosen each time a temporary object is created.
Temporary files are no longer stored in per-database
<filename>pgsql_tmp/</filename> directories but in per-tablespace
directories.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Support GSSAPI authentication (Henry Hotz, Magnus) Limit the amount of information reported when a user is dropped
(Alvaro)
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
This should be preferred to native Kerberos authentication because Previously, dropping (or attempting to drop) a user who owned many
GSSAPI is an industry standard. objects could result in large <literal>NOTICE</literal> or
<literal>ERROR</literal> messages listing all these objects; this
caused problems for some client applications. The length of the
message is now limited, although a full list is still sent to the
server log.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Support a global SSL configuration file (Victor Wagner) Place temporary tables' TOAST tables in special schemas named
<literal>pg_toast_temp_<replaceable>nnn</></literal> (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This allows low-level code to recognize these tables as temporary,
which enables various optimizations such as not WAL-logging changes
and using local rather than shared buffers for access. This also
fixes a bug wherein backends unexpectedly held open file references
to temporary TOAST tables.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Add <varname>ssl_ciphers</> parameter to control accepted SSL ciphers Fix problem that a constant flow of new connection requests could
(Victor Wagner) indefinitely delay the postmaster from completing a shutdown or
a crash restart (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</command> to ignore
transactions in other databases (Simon)
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
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</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Server Monitoring</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Autovacuum now reports its activity start time in
<literal>pg_stat_activity</literal> (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Allow server log output in comma-separated value (CSV) format (Arul Allow server log output in comma-separated value (CSV) format (Arul
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</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Change the timestamps recorded in transaction WAL records from
time_t to TimestampTz representation (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This provides sub-second resolution in WAL, which can be useful for
point-in-time recovery.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
New boolean configuration parameter, <varname>archive_mode</>,
controls archiving (Simon)
</para>
<para>
Previously setting <varname>archive_command</> to an empty string
turned off archiving. Now <varname>archive_mode</> turns archiving
on and off, independently of <varname>archive_command</>. This is
useful for stopping archiving temporarily.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce WAL workspace needed by warm standby servers (Simon)
</para>
<para>
This change allows a warm standby server to identify the earliest
still-needed WAL file to the recovery script, allowing automatic removal
of no-longer-needed WAL files. This is done using <literal>%r</> in
the <varname>restore_command</varname> parameter of
<filename>recovery.conf</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Add <varname>log_restartpoints</varname> to control logging of Add <varname>log_restartpoints</varname> to control logging of
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</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> parameter to control
the tablespaces for temporary tables and files (Jaime Casanova,
Albert Cervera, Bernd Helmle)
</para>
<para>
This parameter defines a list of tablespaces to be used. This
enables spreading the I/O load across multiple tablespaces. A random
tablespace is chosen each time a temporary object is created.
Temporary files are no longer stored in per-database
<filename>pgsql_tmp/</filename> directories but in per-tablespace
directories.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
New system view <literal>pg_stat_bgwriter</literal> displays New system view <literal>pg_stat_bgwriter</literal> displays
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</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Authentication Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Limit the amount of information reported when a user is dropped Support Security Service Provider Interface (<acronym>SSPI</>) for
(Alvaro) authentication on Windows (Magnus)
</para> </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <para>
Previously, dropping (or attempting to drop) a user who owned many Support GSSAPI authentication (Henry Hotz, Magnus)
objects could result in large <literal>NOTICE</literal> or </para>
<literal>ERROR</literal> messages listing all these objects; this
caused problems for some client applications. The length of the <para>
message is now limited, although a full list is still sent to the This should be preferred to native Kerberos authentication because
server log. GSSAPI is an industry standard.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Place temporary tables' TOAST tables in special schemas named Support a global SSL configuration file (Victor Wagner)
<literal>pg_toast_temp_<replaceable>nnn</></literal> (Tom)
</para> </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <para>
This allows low-level code to recognize these tables as temporary, Add <varname>ssl_ciphers</> parameter to control accepted SSL ciphers
which enables various optimizations such as not WAL-logging changes (Victor Wagner)
and using local rather than shared buffers for access. This also
fixes a bug wherein backends unexpectedly held open file references
to temporary TOAST tables.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Fix problem that a constant flow of new connection requests could Add a Kerberos realm parameter, <varname>krb_realm</> (Magnus)
indefinitely delay the postmaster from completing a shutdown or
a crash restart (Tom)
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>WAL and Continuous Archiving Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Allow <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</command> to ignore Change the timestamps recorded in transaction WAL records from
transactions in other databases (Simon) time_t to TimestampTz representation (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This provides sub-second resolution in WAL, which can be useful for
point-in-time recovery.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Add a Kerberos realm parameter, <varname>krb_realm</> (Magnus) Reduce WAL disk space needed by warm standby servers (Simon)
</para>
<para>
This change allows a warm standby server to pass the name of the earliest
still-needed WAL file to the recovery script, allowing automatic removal
of no-longer-needed WAL files. This is done using <literal>%r</> in
the <varname>restore_command</varname> parameter of
<filename>recovery.conf</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
New boolean configuration parameter, <varname>archive_mode</>,
controls archiving (Simon)
</para>
<para>
Previously setting <varname>archive_command</> to an empty string
turned off archiving. Now <varname>archive_mode</> turns archiving
on and off, independently of <varname>archive_command</>. This is
useful for stopping archiving temporarily.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
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