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<sect1 id="release-9-1-alpha">
<title>Release 9.1alpha3</title>
<title>Release 9.1alpha4</title>
<sect2>
<title>Overview</title>
<para>
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Allow WITH clauses to be attached to INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
statements
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
This is not the hoped-for facility of using
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE inside a WITH, but rather the other way
around.
<emphasis>Allow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE to be used inside a WITH
clause</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
@ -163,6 +164,98 @@
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow a table's row type to be cast to the table's supertype
if it's a type table.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This is analagous to the existing facility that allows casting a row
type to a supertable's row type.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Make foreign data wrappers functional, and support FOREIGN
TABLEs.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Foreign tables are component of SQL/MED, and provide a framework to
allow data stored outside the database to be accessed via SQL.
contrib/file_fdw is provided as a sample foreign data wrapper.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow a unique or primary key constraint to be created
using an existing index.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Implement a truly serializable isolation level</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow foreign key constraints to be added as initially
NOT VALID, and validated later</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow multiple collations to be used within a single
database</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support extensions, which provide a cleaner method for
installing and upgrading add-on modules, such as those in contrib
</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Teach ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE to avoid a table write
in some cases where it isn't necessary
</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow binary I/O of type "void"</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Rearrange snapshot handlling to make rule expansion more
consistent</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Portals, SQL functions, and SPI all now agree that a completely new
MVCC snapshot should be obtained only after fully executing each
original query. This is equivalent to the prior behavior of EXPLAIN
ANALYZE. It eliminates one source of concurrency hazards for
rules, and should also be marginally faster.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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This can be used to optimize nearest-neighbor searches.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve process shutdown speed
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support unlogged tables.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
The contents of an unlogged table are not WAL-logged; thus, they
are replicated and are truncated whenever the database system enters
recovery. Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged, but GIST
indexes on unlogged tables are not currently supported.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Hash joins now support right and full outer joins.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Previously, full joins could be implemented only as a merge join,
and left and right outer joins could only hash the table on the
nullable side of the join. This optimization is particularly
advantageous when the non-nullable side of a left or right outer
join is much smaller than the nullable side.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce the memory requirement for large ispell dictionaries
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Fix GIN to support null keys, empty and null items, and
full index scans</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Teach GIN to combine duplicate keys even across different
quals</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Performance improvements in pg_upgrade for uses with many tables
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Avoid unnecessary detoast when comparing unequal-length text
or bytea values for equality or inequality</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Try to compact the background writer's fsync queue when
it overflows, instead of doing an fsync per block written</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Teach replication connections to respect the value of
log_connections</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Previously, they were always logged.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Log restartpoints in the same fashion as
checkpoints</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Previously, less information was logged for restartpoints.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>By default, set wal_buffers to a reasonable value, based
on the setting for shared_buffers</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add new recovery.conf parameter, pause_at_recovery_target,
which defaults to on.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This is a behavior change from previous releases, which entered normal
running upon reaching the recovery target.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add new recovery.conf parameter, recovery_target_name,
allowing recovery to proceed to a named restore point</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Named restore points can be created using a new server function,
pg_create_restore_point.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Implement remaining fields of
information_schema.sequences view</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add a "conflicts" column to pg_stat_database</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>New system view pg_stat_database_conflicts</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>New system view pg_stat_replication</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This view shows which replication slaves are connected to the master,
and reports their status and replication progress.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>When an autovacuum worker (other than one performing an
anti-wraparound vacuum) is unable to obtain a lock on the target
relation without blocking, skip the relation.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This avoids pinning down an autovacuum worker. The next autovacuum
cycle will try again.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>When an autovacuum worker (other than one performing an
anti-wraparound vacuum) is unable to obtain a lock on the target
relation without blocking, skip the relation.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This avoids pinning down an autovacuum worker. The next autovacuum
cycle will try again.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Track time of last statistics reset on databases and
bgwriter</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow standby servers to send information on running
transactions back to the master</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
When enabled, this prevents most recovery conflicts on the slave,
but may cause MVCC bloat on the master.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add REPLICATION privilege for ROLEs.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This makes it possible for replication to be performed by a
non-superuser account.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add pg_is_xlog_replay_paused, pg_xlog_replay_pause, and
pg_xlog_replay_resume functions.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Change pg_last_xlog_receive_location not to move
backwards.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support streaming base backups.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
A new client, pg_basebackup, can be used to perform a streaming base
backup.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add a directory output format to pg_dump</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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with (at present) no default value.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a \sf (show function) command to psql, for those
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add a \dL command to psql, to list procedural
languages</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow psql to automatically deduce the client encoding from
the locale</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@ -607,6 +927,17 @@
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>ecpg</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow ecpg to accept dynamic cursor names even in WHERE
CURRENT OF clauses</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Procedural Languages</title>
<sect4>
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Allow generic record arguments to PL/Perl functions
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Convert PostgreSQL arrays passed to PL/perl functions to
Perl arrays</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
<sect4>
<title>PL/Python</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Fix an error when a set-returning function fails halfway
through</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Skip dropped attributes when converting Python objects to
tuples</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Improve messages for errors in compiling anonymous
PL/Python blocks</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Improve the handling of exceptions</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Fix the way that exceptions are handled by the plpy module for Python
3. Get rid of the global variable holding the error state, and
instead arrange to report PostgreSQL errors to Python immediately.
Call PLy_spi_execute_fetch_result inside the try/catch block, so that
errors from fetching tuples are correct reported as errors in the
SPI call. Use the built-in TypeError, not SPIError, for errors
having to do with argument counts or types. Use SPIError, not simply
plpy.Error, for errors in PLy_spi_execute_plan. Do not set
a Python exception if PyArg_ParseTuple failed, as it already sets
the correct exception.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Do not prefix error messages with the string
"PL/Python: "</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
It is redundant, given the error context.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Check PL/Python functions for syntax errors at creation
time</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Previously, even gross syntax errors would not be detected until
the function was executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow Python try/catch blocks to catch exceptions arising
from SPI calls</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Invalidate PL/python functions with composite type
arguments when the type changes</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add quoting functions plpy.quote_ident, plpy.quote_literal,
and plpy.quote_nullable</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support table functions</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add a plpy.subtransaction() context manager</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Provide a separate exception class for each error code
the backend defines, and make it possible to get the SQLSTATE from
the exception object</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Assorted code cleanup</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
We now use HTABs instead of Python dictionary objects to cache
procedures. palloc is used in TopMemoryContext instead of malloc.
Avoid use of undocumented API PyObject_NEW. Free plan values in
the PlyPlanObject dealloc function. Add braces around an if block,
for readability. Refactor PLy_spi_prepare to save two levels of
indentation. Avoid palloc(0).
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Additional Supplied Modules</title>
<itemizedlist>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>New module contrib/sepgsql, an SE-Linux integration for
PostgreSQL</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Updates to contrib/isn ISBN tables
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>New module contrib/pg_test_fsync, replacing
src/tools/test_fsync</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>In contrib/pageinspect, fix the heap_page_item to return
infomasks as 32 bit values</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>In contrib/btree_gist, support KNN GiST searches</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>In contrib/pg_trgm, support LIKE, ILIKE, and KNN GiST
searches</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Several improvements to contrib/intarray</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Correct the behavior of array containment operators, so that an empty
array is contained in any other array. Fix bogus failures where
operators would claim that nulls were present when they really
weren't. Remove arbitrary restriction to 1-D arrays.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Fix pg_upgrade not to insist on pg_dumpall and psql in the
old cluster, since we don't need them, but do check for pg_resetxlog
in the old and new clusters, since we do. Avoid a useless attempt
to call pg_config in the old cluster.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Allow make check in PL directories</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Add a make check-world target</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>PGXS support for contrib/hstore</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>