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authorPeter Eisentraut2010-08-17 04:37:21 +0000
committerPeter Eisentraut2010-08-17 04:37:21 +0000
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+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.48 2010/08/07 13:07:06 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.49 2010/08/17 04:37:21 petere Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="release-9-0">
<title>Release 9.0</title>
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
New and enhanced security features, including RADIUS authentication,
- LDAP authentication improvements, and the new checkpassword optional module
+ LDAP authentication improvements, and the new <filename>checkpassword</> optional module
for testing password strength.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
+ Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
to support in-place upgrades from 8.3 or 8.4 to 9.0.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -149,14 +149,14 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- EXPLAIN plans are now available in JSON, XML and YAML format, and include
+ <command>EXPLAIN</> plans are now available in JSON, XML, and YAML format, and include
buffer utilization and other data not previously available.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The HStore optional module has been improved with new functions and greater
+ The <filename>hstore</> optional module has been improved with new functions and greater
data capacity to make it a high-performance key-value store.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
Remove server variable <varname>regex_flavor</>, which
was defaulted to <link
linkend="posix-syntax-details"><literal>advanced</></link>
- (e.g. Perl-regex compatible) for many years. (Tom Lane)
+ (i.e., Perl compatible) for many years. (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@
<para>
This is particularly useful for finding
<function>MAX()</>/<function>MIN()</> values in indexes that also
- contain NULLs.
+ contain null values.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
While the Genetic Query Optimizer (GEQO) still selects
random plans, it now selects the same random plans for
identical queries. You can modify <link
- linkend="guc-geqo-seed">geqo_seed</link> to randomize
+ linkend="guc-geqo-seed"><varname>geqo_seed</></link> to randomize
the starting value of the random plan generator.
</para>
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@
</para>
<para>
- Now there is true multi-lingual support for PostgreSQL log messages
+ Now there is true multilingual support for PostgreSQL log messages
on Windows.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add boolean variable <link
+ Add Boolean variable <link
linkend="guc-bonjour"><varname>bonjour</></link>, which
controls whether a Bonjour-enabled binary advertises
itself via <productname>Bonjour</> (Tom Lane)
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add boolean variable <link
+ Add Boolean variable <link
linkend="guc-enable-material"><varname>enable_material</></link>, which
controls the use of materialize nodes in the optimizer
(Robert Haas)
@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <literal>point_ops</> opclass for GiST (Teodor Sigaev)
+ Add <literal>point_ops</> operator class for GiST (Teodor Sigaev)
</para>
<para>
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@
<para>
The variable <link
- linkend="guc-bytea-output">bytea_output</link> controls
+ linkend="guc-bytea-output"><varname>bytea_output</></link> controls
if hex (default) or octal escapes are used for <type>bytea</>
output. (SWITCH DEFAULT FOR BETA? PETER) Libpq's
<function>PQescapeByteaConn()</> now uses the hex format
@@ -1516,8 +1516,8 @@
<para>
Previously, only <acronym>ASCII</> characters and single-byte
- encodings worked properly. Other multi-byte, non-<acronym>UTF-8</>
- encodings are still broken for case-insensitive regular expression
+ encodings worked properly. Multibyte encodings other than <acronym>UTF-8</>
+ are still broken for case-insensitive regular expression
matching.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1868,14 +1868,14 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add server variable <link
- linkend="guc-plperl-on-init">plperl.on_init</link> to
+ linkend="guc-plperl-on-init"><varname>plperl.on_init</></link> to
specify a PL/Perl Perl initialization function (Tim
Bunce)
</para>
<para>
<link
- linkend="guc-plperl-on-plperl-init">plperl.on_plperl_init</link>
+ linkend="guc-plperl-on-plperl-init"><varname>plperl.on_plperl_init</></link>
and <varname>plperl.on_plperlu_init</> are also available
for trusted/untrusted-specific initialization.
</para>
@@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@
<para>
This can be globally enabled with the server variable <link
- linkend="guc-plperl-use-strict">plperl.use_strict</link>.
+ linkend="guc-plperl-use-strict"><varname>plperl.use_strict</></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1965,8 +1965,8 @@
<para>
<type>Bytea</> values passed into PL/Python now are represented as
- binary, rather than the Postgres <type>bytea</> text format. Null
- bytes are now also output properly from PL/Python. <type>Boolean</>
+ binary, rather than the PostgreSQL <type>bytea</> text format. Null
+ bytes are now also output properly from PL/Python. <type>boolean</>
and <type>numeric</> value passing in PL/Python was also improved.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@
<para>
These are similar to the existing <literal>all</>, <literal>install</>,
and <literal>installcheck</> targets, but they build <acronym>HTML</>
- documentation, build and test <filename>/contrib</>, and test
+ documentation, build and test <filename>contrib</>, and test
server-side languages and <application>ecpg</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2582,7 +2582,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Allow multi-processor compilation using <productname>Microsoft Visual
+ Allow multiprocessor compilation using <productname>Microsoft Visual
C</> (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2647,7 +2647,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve source code test coverage, including /contrib, PL/Python,
+ Improve source code test coverage, including <filename>contrib</>, PL/Python,
and PL/Perl (Peter Eisentraut, Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
+ Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>contrib/pg_upgrade</></link>
to support in-place upgrades (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
@@ -2894,8 +2894,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Add multi-threaded option (<option>-j</>) to <link
- linkend="pgbench"><filename>/contrib/pgbench</></link>
+ Add multithreaded option (<option>-j</>) to <link
+ linkend="pgbench"><filename>contrib/pgbench</></link>
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@
<para>
Add <command>\shell</> and <command>\setshell</> meta
commands to <link
- linkend="pgbench"><filename>/contrib/pgbench</></link>
+ linkend="pgbench"><filename>contrib/pgbench</></link>
(Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2916,7 +2916,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
New features for <link
- linkend="dict-xsyn"><filename>/contrib/dict_xsyn</></link>
+ linkend="dict-xsyn"><filename>contrib/dict_xsyn</></link>
(Sergey Karpov)
</para>
@@ -2929,7 +2929,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add full text dictionary <link
- linkend="unaccent"><filename>/contrib/unaccent</></link>
+ linkend="unaccent"><filename>contrib/unaccent</></link>
(Teodor Sigaev)
</para>
@@ -2943,17 +2943,17 @@
<para>
Add <link
linkend="CONTRIB-DBLINK-GET-NOTIFY"><function>dblink_get_notify()</></link>
- to <filename>/contrib/dblink</> (Marcus Kempe)
+ to <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Marcus Kempe)
</para>
<para>
- This allows async notifications in <productname>dblink</>.
+ This allows asynchronous notifications in <productname>dblink</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve <filename>/contrib/dblink</>s handling of dropped columns
+ Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>s handling of dropped columns
(Tom Lane)
</para>
@@ -2967,22 +2967,22 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Greatly increase <link
- linkend="hstore"><filename>/contrib/hstore</></link>'s
- length limit and add btree and hash abilities so <literal>GROUP
+ linkend="hstore"><filename>contrib/hstore</></link>'s
+ length limit and add B-tree and hash abilities so <literal>GROUP
BY</> and <literal>DISTINCT</> operations are possible
(Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
New functions and operators were also added. These improvements
- make HStore a full-functional key-value store embedded in PostgreSQL.
+ make hstore a full-functional key-value store embedded in PostgreSQL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link
- linkend="passwordcheck"><filename>/contrib/passwordcheck</></link>
+ linkend="passwordcheck"><filename>contrib/passwordcheck</></link>
which can check the strength of assigned passwords (Laurenz
Albe)
</para>
@@ -2996,7 +2996,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add <link
- linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><filename>/contrib/pg_archivecleanup</></link>
+ linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><filename>contrib/pg_archivecleanup</></link>
tool (Simon Riggs)
</para>
@@ -3009,7 +3009,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add query text to <link
- linkend="auto-explain"><filename>/contrib/auto_explain</></link>
+ linkend="auto-explain"><filename>contrib/auto_explain</></link>
output (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3017,7 +3017,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Add buffer access counters to <link
- linkend="pgstatstatements"><filename>/contrib/pg_stat_statements</></link>
+ linkend="pgstatstatements"><filename>contrib/pg_stat_statements</></link>
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3025,7 +3025,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Update <link
- linkend="server-start"><filename>/contrib/start-scripts/linux</></link>
+ linkend="server-start"><filename>contrib/start-scripts/linux</></link>
to use <filename>/proc/self/oom_adj</> to disable the
<link linkend="linux-memory-overcommit"><productname>Linux</>
out-of-memory</link> (<acronym>OOM</>) killer (Alex