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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
index a27f50accfd..2b2cb84c39b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
@@ -62,19 +62,24 @@ Prevent the containment operators (<@ and @>) for contrib/intarray from us
</para>
<para>
-Previously a full GiST index scan was required, so just avoid that and scan the heap, which is faster.
-EXISTING INDEXES? REMOVE?
+Previously a full GiST index scan was required, so just avoid that and scan the heap, which is faster. Indexes created for this purpose should be removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-11 [5333e014a] Remove deprecated syntax from CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE
+2020-11-03 [2f70fdb06] Remove deprecated containment operators for built-in typ
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-03-05 [112d411fb] Remove deprecated containment operators for contrib type
-->
<para>
-Disallow single-quoting of the language name in the CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE command (Peter Eisentraut)
+Remove deprecated containment operators @ and ~ for built-in geometric data types and contrib modules cube, hstore, intarray, and seg (Justin Pryzby)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The more consistent &lt;@ and @&gt; have been recommended for many years.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -114,6 +119,8 @@ Previously, quoted text that contained multiple adjacent discarded tokens were t
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
-->
<para>
@@ -122,54 +129,70 @@ Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to scram-sha-256
<para>
Previously it was md5. All new passwords will be stored as SHA256 unless this server variable is changed or the password is already md5-hashed.
-Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like values which were previously synonyms of <literal>md5</literal> are no longer accepted.
+Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like values which were previously synonyms for <literal>md5</literal> are no longer accepted.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-04-06 [a2da77cdb] Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric
+Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
+2020-10-05 [253f1025d] Overhaul pg_hba.conf clientcert's API
-->
<para>
-Change EXTRACT to return the NUMERIC data type (Peter Eisentraut)
+Overhaul the specification of clientcert in pg_hba.conf (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
<para>
-EXTRACT(date) now throws an error for units that are not part of the date data type.
+Values 1/0/no-verify are no longer supported; only the strings verify-ca and verify-full can be used. Also, disallow verify-ca if cert authentication is enabled since cert requires verify-full
+checking.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-10-22 [3dfb1942d] Avoid premature de-doubling of quote marks in ECPG strin
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-10-22 [c16a1bbcf] Add documentation and tests for quote marks in ECPG lite
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-03-09 [f9264d152] Remove support for SSL compression
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-03-10 [0ba71107e] Revert changes for SSL compression in libpq
-->
<para>
-Pass doubled quote marks in ecpg SQL command strings literally (Tom Lane)
+Remove support for SSL compression (Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
-Previously 'abc''def' was passed to the server as 'abc'def'; "abc""def" was passed as "abc"def".
+This was already disabled by default in previous Postgres releases, and most modern OpenSSL and TLS versions no longer support it.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
+2021-03-04 [3174d69fb] Remove server and libpq support for old FE/BE protocol v
+-->
+
+<para>
+Remove server and libpq support for the version 2 wire protocol (Heikki Linnakangas)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This was last used as the default in Postgres 7.2 (year 2002).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-11-25 [f73999262] tablefunc: Reject negative number of tuples passed to no
+2021-04-06 [a2da77cdb] Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric
-->
<para>
-Prevent tablefunc's function normal_rand() from accepting negative values (Ashutosh Bapat)
+Change EXTRACT to return the NUMERIC data type (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
-Negative values produced undesirable results.
+EXTRACT(date) now throws an error for units that are not part of the date data type.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -190,6 +213,21 @@ Previously window frame clauses like 'inf' PRECEDING AND 'inf' FOLLOWING returne
<listitem>
<!--
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-11-25 [f73999262] tablefunc: Reject negative number of tuples passed to no
+-->
+
+<para>
+Prevent tablefunc's function normal_rand() from accepting negative values (Ashutosh Bapat)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Negative values produced undesirable results.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2020-06-13 [23cbeda50] Sync behavior of var_samp and stddev_samp for single NaN
-->
@@ -205,80 +243,76 @@ Previously NaN was returned.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-09 [f9264d152] Remove support for SSL compression
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-10 [0ba71107e] Revert changes for SSL compression in libpq
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-09-17 [76f412ab3] Remove factorial operators, leaving only the factorial()
-->
<para>
-Remove support for SSL compression (Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier)
+Remove factorial operators ! and !! (Mark Dilger)
</para>
<para>
-This was already disabled by default in previous Postgres releases, and most modern OpenSSL and TLS versions no longer support it.
+The factorial() function is still supported. Also remove function numeric_fac().
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-11-03 [2f70fdb06] Remove deprecated containment operators for built-in typ
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-05 [112d411fb] Remove deprecated containment operators for contrib type
+2020-06-18 [0a40563ea] Disallow factorial of negative numbers
-->
<para>
-Remove deprecated containment operators @ and ~ for built-in geometric data types and contrib modules cube, hstore, intarray, and seg (Justin Pryzby)
+Disallow factorial() of negative numbers (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
-The more consistent &lt;@ and @&gt; have been recommended for many years.
+Previously such cases returned 1.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
-2021-03-04 [3174d69fb] Remove server and libpq support for old FE/BE protocol v
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-09-17 [1ed6b8956] Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.
-->
<para>
-Remove server and libpq support for the version 2 wire protocol (Heikki Linnakangas)
+Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators (Mark Dilger)
</para>
<para>
-This was last used as the default in Postgres 7.2 (year 2002).
+pg_dump and pg_upgrade will warn if postfix operators are being dumped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-02 [4aea704a5] Fix semantics of regular expression back-references.
+2021-02-25 [7dc13a0f0] Change regex \D and \W shorthands to always match newlin
-->
<para>
-Improve handling of regular expression back-references (Tom Lane)
+Allow \D and \W shorthands to match newlines in newline-sensitive mode (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-For example, disregard ^ in its expansion in \1 in "(^\d+).*\1".
+Previously they did not match; [^[:digit:]] or [^[:word:]] can be used to get the old behavior.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-02-25 [7dc13a0f0] Change regex \D and \W shorthands to always match newlin
+2021-03-02 [4aea704a5] Fix semantics of regular expression back-references.
-->
<para>
-Allow \D and \W shorthands to match newlines in newline-sensitive mode (Tom Lane)
+Improve handling of regular expression back-references (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-Previously they did not match; [^[:digit:]] or [^[:word:]] can be used to get the old behavior.
+For example, disregard ^ in its expansion in \1 in "(^\d+).*\1".
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -325,135 +359,147 @@ Previously such attribute numbers returned an invalid column error.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-29 [514b411a2] Retire pg_standby.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-10-22 [3dfb1942d] Avoid premature de-doubling of quote marks in ECPG strin
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-10-22 [c16a1bbcf] Add documentation and tests for quote marks in ECPG lite
-->
<para>
-Remove contrib program pg_standby (Justin Pryzby)
+Pass doubled quote marks in ecpg SQL command strings literally (Tom Lane)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously 'abc''def' was passed to the server as 'abc'def', and "abc""def" was passed as "abc"def".
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
-2020-10-05 [253f1025d] Overhaul pg_hba.conf clientcert's API
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-11 [5333e014a] Remove deprecated syntax from CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE
-->
<para>
-Overhaul the specification of clientcert in pg_hba.conf (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+Disallow single-quoting of the language name in the CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE command (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-29 [514b411a2] Retire pg_standby.
+-->
<para>
-Values 1/0/no-verify are no longer supported; only the strings verify-ca and verify-full can be used. Also, disallow verify-ca if cert authentication is enabled since cert requires verify-full
-checking.
+Remove contrib program pg_standby (Justin Pryzby)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-17 [76f412ab3] Remove factorial operators, leaving only the factorial()
+2020-07-07 [f3faf35f3] Don't create pg_type entries for sequences or toast tabl
-->
<para>
-Remove factorial operators ! and !! (Mark Dilger)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The factorial() function is still supported. Also remove function numeric_fac().
+Remove composite types for sequences or toast tables (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-18 [0a40563ea] Disallow factorial of negative numbers
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-12-08 [a676386b5] Remove operator_precedence_warning.
-->
<para>
-Disallow factorial() of negative numbers (Peter Eisentraut)
+Remove operator_precedence_warning setting (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-Previously such cases returned 1.
+This was needed for warning applications about PostgreSQL 9.5 changes.
</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 14 and the previous major
+ release.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Server</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-17 [1ed6b8956] Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.
+Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
+2021-04-05 [6c3ffd697] Add pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data roles
-->
<para>
-Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators (Mark Dilger)
+Add predefined roles pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
-pg_dump and pg_upgrade will warn if postfix operators are being dumped.
+These non-login roles give read-only/write-only access to all objects.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-07 [f3faf35f3] Don't create pg_type entries for sequences or toast tabl
+Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
+2021-03-26 [a14a0118a] Add "pg_database_owner" default role.
-->
<para>
-Remove composite types for sequences or toast tables (Tom Lane)
+Add a predefined role to match the database owner (Noah Misch)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+It is called pg_database_owner; this is useful in template databases.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-12-08 [a676386b5] Remove operator_precedence_warning.
+Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-18 [cd91de0d1] Remove temporary files after backend crash
-->
<para>
-Remove operator_precedence_warning setting (Tom Lane)
+Remove temporary files after backend crashes (Euler Taveira)
</para>
<para>
-This was needed for warning applications about PostgreSQL 9.5 changes.
+These files were previously retained for debugging purposes; deletion can be disabled with remove_temp_files_after_crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2021-04-03 [c30f54ad7] Detect POLLHUP/POLLRDHUP while running queries.
-->
<para>
-Limit the ways password_encryption can enable md5 hashing (Peter Eisentraut)
+Add long-running queries to be canceled if the client disconnects (Sergey Cherkashin, Thomas Munro)
</para>
<para>
-Previously on/true/yes/1 values enabled md5. Now, only the string md5 does this.
+The server variable client_connection_check_interval allows supporting operating systems, e.g., Linux, to automatically cancel queries by disconnected clients.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Changes</title>
-
- <para>
- Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 14 and the previous major
- release.
- </para>
-
- <sect3>
- <title>Server</title>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
@@ -471,42 +517,49 @@ Also add a similar optional wait parameter to pg_terminate_backend().
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
-2021-04-08 [0827e8af7] autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
+Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
+2021-03-30 [0ff8bbdee] Accept slightly-filled pages for tuples larger than fill
-->
<para>
-Autovacuum now analyzes partitioned tables (Yuzuko Hosoya)
+Allow wide tuples to be always added to almost-empty heap pages (John Naylor, Floris van Nee)
</para>
<para>
-DETAILS?
+Previously tuples whose insertion would have exceeded the page's fill factor were instead added to new pages.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2021-04-07 [5100010ee] Teach VACUUM to bypass unnecessary index vacuuming.
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-04-07 [5c55dc8b4] libpq: Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connecti
-->
<para>
-Allow vacuum to skip index vacuuming when the number of removable index entries is insignificant (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan)
+Add Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connection packets (Peter Eisentraut)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This can be disabled by turning client option "sslsni" off.
</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <sect4>
+ <title>Vacuuming</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2021-04-07 [1e55e7d17] Add wraparound failsafe to VACUUM.
+2021-04-07 [5100010ee] Teach VACUUM to bypass unnecessary index vacuuming.
-->
<para>
-Cause vacuum operations to be aggressive if the table is near xid or multixact wraparound (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is controlled by vacuum_failsafe_age and vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age.
+Allow vacuum to skip index vacuuming when the number of removable index entries is insignificant (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -527,91 +580,114 @@ Previously VACUUM could only place preexisting deleted pages in the free space m
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
-2021-03-26 [a14a0118a] Add "pg_database_owner" default role.
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2021-04-07 [3c3b8a4b2] Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.
-->
<para>
-Add a predefined role to match the database owner (Noah Misch)
+Allow vacuum to deallocate space reserved by trailing unused heap line pointers (Matthias van de Meent, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-12-08 [e2ac3fed3] Speed up rechecking if relation needs to be vacuumed or
+-->
<para>
-It is called pg_database_owner; this is useful in template databases.
+Speed up vacuuming of databases with many relations (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
-2021-04-05 [6c3ffd697] Add pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data roles
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2021-01-27 [e19594c5c] Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss.
-->
<para>
-Add predefined roles pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data (Stephen Frost)
+Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
<para>
-These non-login roles give read-only/write-only access to all objects.
+This new default better reflects current hardware capabilities.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-03 [c30f54ad7] Detect POLLHUP/POLLRDHUP while running queries.
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-02-09 [7cb3048f3] Add option PROCESS_TOAST to VACUUM
-->
<para>
-Add long-running queries to be canceled if the client disconnects (Sergey Cherkashin, Thomas Munro)
+Add ability to skip vacuuming of TOAST tables (Nathan Bossart)
</para>
<para>
-The server variable client_connection_check_interval allows supporting operating systems, e.g., Linux, to automatically cancel queries by disconnected clients.
+VACUUM now has a PROCESS_TOAST which can be set to false to disable TOAST processing, and vacuumdb has a --no-process-toast option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-18 [cd91de0d1] Remove temporary files after backend crash
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2021-04-07 [1e55e7d17] Add wraparound failsafe to VACUUM.
-->
<para>
-Remove temporary files after backend crashes (Euler Taveira)
+Cause vacuum operations to be aggressive if the table is near xid or multixact wraparound (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
<para>
-These files were previously retained for debugging purposes; deletion can be disabled with remove_temp_files_after_crash.
+This is controlled by vacuum_failsafe_age and vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2021-04-07 [3c3b8a4b2] Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.
+Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
+2020-08-01 [cd5e82256] Change XID and mxact limits to warn at 40M and stop at 3
-->
<para>
-Deallocate space reserved by trailing unused heap line pointers (Matthias van de Meent, Peter Geoghegan)
+Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound (Noah Misch)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This should reduce the possibility of failures that occur without having issued warnings about wraparound.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
-2021-03-30 [0ff8bbdee] Accept slightly-filled pages for tuples larger than fill
+Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
+2021-04-08 [0827e8af7] autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
-->
<para>
-Allow wide tuples to be always added to almost-empty heap pages (John Naylor, Floris van Nee)
+Autovacuum now analyzes partitioned tables (Yuzuko Hosoya)
</para>
<para>
-Previously tuples whose insertion would have exceeded the page's fill factor were instead added to new pages.
+DETAILS?
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-03-23 [5aed6a1fc] Add per-index stats information in verbose logs of autov
+-->
+
+<para>
+Add per-index information to autovacuum logging output (Masahiko Sawada)
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect4>
<sect4>
<title><link linkend="ddl-partitioning">Partitioning</link></title>
@@ -620,50 +696,50 @@ Previously tuples whose insertion would have exceeded the page's fill factor wer
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
-2021-03-25 [71f4c8c6f] ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-03-31 [86dc90056] Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-04-06 [a1115fa07] Postpone some more stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-04-06 [c5b7ba4e6] Postpone some stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
-->
<para>
-Allow partitions to be detached in a non-blocking manner (Álvaro Herrera)
+Improve the performance of updates/deletes on partitioned tables when only a few partitions are affected (Amit Langote, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-The syntax is ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY, and FINALIZE.
+This also allows updates/deletes on partitioned tables to use execution-time partition pruning.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-28 [2dfa3fea8] Remove complaints about COLLATE clauses in partition bou
+Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
+2021-03-25 [71f4c8c6f] ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY
-->
<para>
-Allow the arbitrary collations of partition boundary values (Tom Lane)
+Allow partitions to be detached in a non-blocking manner (Álvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
-Previously it had to match the collation of the partition key.
+The syntax is ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY, and FINALIZE.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-31 [86dc90056] Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-06 [a1115fa07] Postpone some more stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-06 [c5b7ba4e6] Postpone some stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
+2020-09-28 [2dfa3fea8] Remove complaints about COLLATE clauses in partition bou
-->
<para>
-Improve the performance of updates/deletes on partitioned tables when only a few partitions are affected (Amit Langote, Tom Lane)
+Allow the arbitrary collations of partition boundary values (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-This also allows updates/deletes on partitioned tables to use execution-time partition pruning.
+Previously it had to match the collation of the partition key.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -685,7 +761,7 @@ Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-->
<para>
-Allow index additions to remove expired btree index entries to prevent page splits (Peter Geoghegan)
+Allow btree index additions to remove expired index entries to prevent page splits (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
<para>
@@ -725,27 +801,27 @@ This allows bloom indexes to be used effectively with data that is not physicall
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-05 [09c1c6ab4] Support INCLUDE'd columns in SP-GiST.
+Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
+2020-09-17 [16fa9b2b3] Add support for building GiST index by sorting.
-->
<para>
-Allow SP-GiST to use INCLUDE'd columns (Pavel Borisov)
+Allow some GiST indexes to be built by presorting the data (Andrey Borodin)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Presorting happens automatically and allows for faster index creation and smaller indexes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
-2020-09-17 [16fa9b2b3] Add support for building GiST index by sorting.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-04-05 [09c1c6ab4] Support INCLUDE'd columns in SP-GiST.
-->
<para>
-Allow some GiST indexes to be built by presorting the data (Andrey Borodin)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Presorting happens automatically and allows for faster index creation and smaller indexes.
+Allow SP-GiST to use INCLUDE'd columns (Pavel Borisov)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -760,17 +836,16 @@ Presorting happens automatically and allows for faster index creation and smalle
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-27 [a4d75c86b] Extended statistics on expressions
+Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
+2021-04-08 [50e17ad28] Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation
-->
<para>
-Allow extended statistics on expressions (Tomas Vondra)
+Allow hash lookup of IN clause with many constants (James Coleman, David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
-This allows statistics on a group of expressions and columns, rather than only columns like previously. System view pg_stats_ext_exprs reports such statistics.
-ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... TYPE RESETS STASTISTICS?
+Previously the only option was to sequentially scan the list of constants.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -789,6 +864,52 @@ Increase the number of places extended statistics can be used for OR clause esti
</para>
</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-27 [a4d75c86b] Extended statistics on expressions
+-->
+
+<para>
+Allow extended statistics on expressions (Tomas Vondra)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This allows statistics on a group of expressions and columns, rather than only columns like previously. System view pg_stats_ext_exprs reports such statistics.
+ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... TYPE RESETS STASTISTICS?
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
+2021-02-27 [bb437f995] Add TID Range Scans to support efficient scanning ranges
+-->
+
+<para>
+Allow efficient heap scanning of a range of tids (Edmund Horner, David Rowley)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously a sequential scan was required for non-equality tid specifications.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-12-30 [e665769e6] Sanitize IF NOT EXISTS in EXPLAIN for CTAS and matviews
+-->
+
+<para>
+Fix EXPLAIN CREATE TABLE AS and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to honor IF NOT EXISTS (Bharath Rupireddy)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously, if the object already exists, EXPLAIN would fail.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
@@ -815,7 +936,7 @@ Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
-->
<para>
-Improve speed of computing MVCC visibility snapshots on systems with many CPUs and high session count (Andres Freund)
+Improve the speed of computing MVCC visibility snapshots on systems with many CPUs and high session counts (Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
@@ -840,61 +961,57 @@ This is useful if only a small percentage of rows is checked on the inner side.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Etsuro Fujita <efujita@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-31 [27e1f1456] Add support for asynchronous execution.
+Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
+2020-09-15 [62e221e1c] Allow incremental sorts for windowing functions
-->
<para>
-Allow a query referencing multiple foreign tables to perform foreign table scans in parallel (Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, Etsuro Fujita)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The postgres_fdw supports these type of scans if "async_capable" is set.
+Allow window functions to perform incremental sorts (David Rowley)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-19 [bbe0a81db] Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.
+Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
+2020-07-26 [56788d215] Allocate consecutive blocks during parallel seqscans
-->
<para>
-Add ability to use LZ4 compression on TOAST data (Dilip Kumar)
+Improve the I/O performance of parallel sequential scans (Thomas Munro, David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
-This can be set at the column level, or set as a default via server setting default_toast_compression. The server must be compiled with --with-lz4 to support this feature; the default is still pglz.
+This was done by allocating blocks in groups to parallel workers.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
-2021-03-16 [c6fc50cb4] Use pre-fetching for ANALYZE
+Author: Etsuro Fujita <efujita@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-31 [27e1f1456] Add support for asynchronous execution.
-->
<para>
-Allow analyze to do page prefetching (Stephen Frost)
+Allow a query referencing multiple foreign tables to perform foreign table scans in parallel (Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
-This is controlled by maintenance_io_concurrency.
+The postgres_fdw supports these type of scans if "async_capable" is set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-26 [56788d215] Allocate consecutive blocks during parallel seqscans
+Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
+2021-03-16 [c6fc50cb4] Use pre-fetching for ANALYZE
-->
<para>
-Improve the I/O performance of parallel sequential scans (Thomas Munro, David Rowley)
+Allow analyze to do page prefetching (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
-This was done by allocating blocks in groups to parallel workers.
+This is controlled by maintenance_io_concurrency.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -931,51 +1048,33 @@ Improve the performance of regular expression comparisons (Tom Lane)
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-12 [d6ad34f34] Optimize DropRelFileNodeBuffers() for recovery.
--->
-
-<para>
-Speed truncation of small tables during recovery on clusters with a large number of shared buffers (Kirk Jamison)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-12-08 [e2ac3fed3] Speed up rechecking if relation needs to be vacuumed or
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-10-11 [80f8eb79e] Use perfect hash for NFC and NFKC Unicode Normalization
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-10-23 [783f0cc64] Improve performance of Unicode {de,re}composition in the
-->
<para>
-Speed up vacuuming of databases with many relations (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+Dramatically improve Unicode normalization (John Naylor)
</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
-2020-09-15 [62e221e1c] Allow incremental sorts for windowing functions
--->
<para>
-Allow window functions to perform incremental sorts (David Rowley)
+This speeds normalize() and IS NORMALIZED.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-10-11 [80f8eb79e] Use perfect hash for NFC and NFKC Unicode Normalization
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-10-23 [783f0cc64] Improve performance of Unicode {de,re}composition in the
+Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-19 [bbe0a81db] Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.
-->
<para>
-Dramatically improve Unicode normalization (John Naylor)
+Add ability to use LZ4 compression on TOAST data (Dilip Kumar)
</para>
<para>
-This speeds normalize() and IS NORMALIZED.
+This can be set at the column level, or set as a default via server setting default_toast_compression. The server must be compiled with --with-lz4 to support this feature; the default is still pglz.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1011,12 +1110,14 @@ A query id computed by an extension will also be displayed.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-04-07 [9afffcb83] Add some information about authenticated identity via lo
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-08-19 [3e98c0baf] Add pg_backend_memory_contexts system view.
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-08-26 [29dd6d8bc] Prevent non-superusers from reading pg_backend_memory_co
-->
<para>
-Add information about the original user name supplied by the client to the output of log_connections (Jacob Champion)
+Add system view pg_backend_memory_contexts to report session memory usage (Atsushi Torikoshi, Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1033,27 +1134,27 @@ Add function pg_backend_memory_contexts() to output the memory contexts of arbit
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-23 [5aed6a1fc] Add per-index stats information in verbose logs of autov
+Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
+2021-03-16 [94d13d474] Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze
-->
<para>
-Add per-index information to autovacuum logging output (Masahiko Sawada)
+Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze (Stephen Frost, Jakub Wartak)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This reports I/O timings for auto-vacuum and auto-analyze if track_io_timing is enabled. Also, report buffer read and dirty rates for auto-analyze.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
-2021-03-16 [94d13d474] Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-04-07 [9afffcb83] Add some information about authenticated identity via lo
-->
<para>
-Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze (Stephen Frost, Jakub Wartak)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This reports I/O timings for auto-vacuum and auto-analyze if track_io_timing is enabled. Also, report buffer read and dirty rates for auto-analyze.
+Add information about the original user name supplied by the client to the output of log_connections (Jacob Champion)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1068,55 +1169,36 @@ This reports I/O timings for auto-vacuum and auto-analyze if track_io_timing is
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-15 [d75288fb2] Make archiver process an auxiliary process.
--->
-
-<para>
-Make the archiver process visible in pg_stat_activity (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-14 [f560209c6] Make walsenders show their replication commands in pg_st
+Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-06 [8a4f618e7] Report progress of COPY commands
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-03-09 [9d2d45700] Add support for more progress reporting in COPY
-->
<para>
-Improve pg_stat_activity reporting for walsender processes (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Previously only SQL commands were reported.
+Add view pg_stat_progress_copy to report COPY progress (Josef Šimánek, Matthias van de Meent)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-06 [8a4f618e7] Report progress of COPY commands
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-09 [9d2d45700] Add support for more progress reporting in COPY
+Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
+2021-01-17 [960869da0] Add pg_stat_database counters for sessions and session t
-->
<para>
-Add view pg_stat_progress_copy to report COPY progress (Josef Šimánek, Matthias van de Meent)
+Add session statistics to the pg_stat_database system view (Laurenz Albe)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-10-02 [8d9a93596] Add pg_stat_wal statistics view.
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-12-02 [01469241b] Track total number of WAL records, FPIs and bytes genera
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-09 [ff99918c6] Track total amounts of times spent writing and syncing W
+2020-07-20 [d05b172a7] Add generic_plans and custom_plans fields into pg_prepar
-->
<para>
-Add system view pg_stat_wal which reports WAL activity (Masahiro Ikeda)
+Add columns to pg_prepared_statements to report generic and custom plan counts (Atsushi Torikoshi, Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1133,12 +1215,16 @@ Add lock wait time to pg_locks (Atsushi Torikoshi)
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
-2021-01-17 [960869da0] Add pg_stat_database counters for sessions and session t
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-10-02 [8d9a93596] Add pg_stat_wal statistics view.
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-12-02 [01469241b] Track total number of WAL records, FPIs and bytes genera
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-09 [ff99918c6] Track total amounts of times spent writing and syncing W
-->
<para>
-Add session statistics to the pg_stat_database system view (Laurenz Albe)
+Add system view pg_stat_wal which reports WAL activity (Masahiro Ikeda)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1165,25 +1251,27 @@ Function pg_stat_reset_replication_slot() resets slot statistics.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-08-19 [3e98c0baf] Add pg_backend_memory_contexts system view.
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-08-26 [29dd6d8bc] Prevent non-superusers from reading pg_backend_memory_co
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-09-14 [f560209c6] Make walsenders show their replication commands in pg_st
-->
<para>
-Add system view pg_backend_memory_contexts to report session memory usage (Atsushi Torikoshi, Fujii Masao)
+Improve pg_stat_activity reporting of walsender processes (Tom Lane)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously only SQL commands were reported.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-20 [d05b172a7] Add generic_plans and custom_plans fields into pg_prepar
+2021-03-15 [d75288fb2] Make archiver process an auxiliary process.
-->
<para>
-Add columns to pg_prepared_statements to report generic and custom plan counts (Atsushi Torikoshi, Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+Make the archiver process visible in pg_stat_activity (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1236,26 +1324,41 @@ The new pg_hba.conf keyword "clientname=DN" allows comparison with certificate a
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-03 [67a472d71] Remove arbitrary restrictions on password length.
+2020-09-03 [8f8154a50] Allow records to span multiple lines in pg_hba.conf and
-->
<para>
-Allow passwords of an arbitrary length (Tom Lane, Nathan Bossart)
+Allow pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf records to span multiple lines (Fabien Coelho)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+A backslash at the end of a line allows record contents to be continued on the next line.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-03 [8f8154a50] Allow records to span multiple lines in pg_hba.conf and
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-02-18 [f5465fade] Allow specifying CRL directory
-->
<para>
-Allow pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf records to span multiple lines (Fabien Coelho)
+Allow the specification of a certificate revocation list (CRL) directory (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</para>
<para>
-A backslash at the end of a line allows record contents to be continued on the next line.
+This is controlled by server variable ssl_crl_dir and libpq connection option sslcrldir. Previously only CRL files could be specified.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-09-03 [67a472d71] Remove arbitrary restrictions on password length.
+-->
+
+<para>
+Allow passwords of an arbitrary length (Tom Lane, Nathan Bossart)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1300,70 +1403,75 @@ The previous default was 0.5.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2021-01-27 [e19594c5c] Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss.
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-08-03 [b8fdee7d0] Add %P to log_line_prefix for parallel group leader
-->
<para>
-Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss (Peter Geoghegan)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This new default better reflects current hardware capabilities.
+Add %P to log_line_prefix to report the parallel group leader (Justin Pryzby)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-04-07 [5c55dc8b4] libpq: Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connecti
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-11-07 [a05dbf477] Add GUC_LIST_INPUT and GUC_LIST_QUOTE to unix_socket_dir
-->
<para>
-Add Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connection packets (Peter Eisentraut)
+Allow unix_socket_directories to specify paths as individual, comma-separated quoted strings (Ian Lawrence Barwick)
</para>
<para>
-This can be disabled by turning client option "sslsni" off.
+Previously all the paths had to be in a single quoted string.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-02-18 [f5465fade] Allow specifying CRL directory
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2020-07-31 [84b1c63ad] Preallocate some DSM space at startup.
-->
<para>
-Allow the specification of a certificate revocation list (CRL) directory (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+Allow startup allocation of dynamic shared memory (Thomas Munro)
</para>
<para>
-This is controlled by server variable ssl_crl_dir and libpq connection option sslcrldir. Previously only CRL files could be specified.
+This is controlled by min_dynamic_shared_memory. This allows more use of huge pages.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-08 [0650ff230] Add GUC to log long wait times on recovery conflicts.
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-13 [39b03690b] Log long wait time on recovery conflict when it's resolv
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2020-07-17 [d2bddc250] Add huge_page_size setting for use on Linux.
-->
<para>
-Add server variable log_recovery_conflict_waits to report long recovery conflict wait times (Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada)
+Add setting huge_page_size to control the size of huge pages used on Linux (Odin Ugedal)
</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect4>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Streaming Replication and Recovery</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-05 [bf8a662c9] Introduce a new GUC_REPORT setting "in_hot_standby".
+Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
+2020-11-12 [9c4f5192f] Allow pg_rewind to use a standby server as the source sy
-->
<para>
-Add new server-side variable in_hot_standby (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Tom Lane)
+Allow standby servers to be rewound via pg_rewind (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1384,129 +1492,120 @@ You can also set restore_command to an empty string and reload to force recovery
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-11-07 [a05dbf477] Add GUC_LIST_INPUT and GUC_LIST_QUOTE to unix_socket_dir
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-08 [0650ff230] Add GUC to log long wait times on recovery conflicts.
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-13 [39b03690b] Log long wait time on recovery conflict when it's resolv
-->
<para>
-Allow unix_socket_directories to specify paths as individual, comma-separated quoted strings (Ian Lawrence Barwick)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Previously all the paths had to be in a single quoted string.
+Add server variable log_recovery_conflict_waits to report long recovery conflict wait times (Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-08-03 [b8fdee7d0] Add %P to log_line_prefix for parallel group leader
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-01-18 [15251c0a6] Pause recovery for insufficient parameter settings
-->
<para>
-Add %P to log_line_prefix to report the parallel group leader (Justin Pryzby)
+Pause recovery if the primary changes its parameters in a way that prevents replay on the hot standby (Peter Eisentraut)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously the standby would shut down immediately.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
-2020-08-01 [cd5e82256] Change XID and mxact limits to warn at 40M and stop at 3
+Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-11 [32fd2b57d] Be clear about whether a recovery pause has taken effect
-->
<para>
-Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound (Noah Misch)
+Add function pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state() to report the recovery state (Dilip Kumar)
</para>
<para>
-This should reduce the possibility of failures that occur without having issued warnings about wraparound.
+It gives more detailed information than pg_is_wal_replay_paused(), which still exists.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-31 [84b1c63ad] Preallocate some DSM space at startup.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-01-05 [bf8a662c9] Introduce a new GUC_REPORT setting "in_hot_standby".
-->
<para>
-Allow startup allocation of dynamic shared memory (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is controlled by min_dynamic_shared_memory. This allows more use of huge pages.
+Add new server-side variable in_hot_standby (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-17 [d2bddc250] Add huge_page_size setting for use on Linux.
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-12 [d6ad34f34] Optimize DropRelFileNodeBuffers() for recovery.
-->
<para>
-Add setting huge_page_size to control the size of huge pages used on Linux (Odin Ugedal)
+Speed truncation of small tables during recovery on clusters with a large number of shared buffers (Kirk Jamison)
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect4>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3>
- <title>Streaming Replication and Recovery</title>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-06 [ac4645c01] Allow pgoutput to send logical decoding messages.
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-20 [61752afb2] Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.
-->
<para>
-Allow control over whether logical decoding messages are sent to the replication stream (David Pirotte, Euler Taveira)
+Allow file system sync at the start of crash recovery on Linux (Thomas Munro)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+By default, Postgres opens and fsyncs every data file at the start of crash recovery.
+This new setting, recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs, instead syncs each filesystem used by the database cluster.
+This allows for faster recovery on systems with many database files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-30 [f64ea6dc5] Add a xid argument to the filter_prepare callback for ou
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-07-12 [b1e48bbe6] Include replication origins in SQL functions for commit
-->
<para>
-Allow logical decoding to be filtered by xid (Markus Wanner)
+Add function pg_xact_commit_timestamp_origin() to return the commit timestamp and replication origin of the specified transaction (Movead Li)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-20 [61752afb2] Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-07-12 [b1e48bbe6] Include replication origins in SQL functions for commit
-->
<para>
-Allow file system sync at the start of crash recovery on Linux (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-By default, Postgres opens and fsyncs every data file at the start of crash recovery.
-This new setting, recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs, instead syncs each filesystem used by the database cluster.
-This allows for faster recovery on systems with many database files.
+Add the replication origin to the record returned by pg_last_committed_xact() (Movead Li)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-02-12 [ce0fdbfe9] Allow multiple xacts during table sync in logical replic
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-06-14 [cc072641d] Replace superuser check by ACLs for replication origin f
-->
<para>
-Allow multiple transactions during table sync in logical replication (Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, and Takamichi Osumi)
+Allow replication origin functions to be controlled using standard function permission controls (Martín Marqués)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously these functions could only be executed by super-users, and this is still the default.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1526,16 +1625,12 @@ GENERAL ENOUGH?
</para>
</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
-2020-11-12 [9c4f5192f] Allow pg_rewind to use a standby server as the source sy
--->
+ </itemizedlist>
-<para>
-Allow standby servers to be rewound via pg_rewind (Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <sect4>
+ <title>Logical Replication</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<!--
@@ -1561,67 +1656,60 @@ Previously transactions that exceeded logical_decoding_work_mem were written to
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-20 [0bead9af4] Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID ass
+2020-07-28 [45fdc9738] Extend the logical decoding output plugin API with strea
-->
<para>
-Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila)
+Enhance the logical replication API to allow streaming large in-progress transactions (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila)
</para>
<para>
-This is useful for logical decoding.
+The output functions begin with "stream". test_decoding also supports these.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-18 [9de77b545] Allow logical replication to transfer data in binary for
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2021-02-12 [ce0fdbfe9] Allow multiple xacts during table sync in logical replic
-->
<para>
-Allow logical replication subscriptions to use binary transfer mode (Dave Cramer)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is faster than text mode, but slightly less robust.
+Allow multiple transactions during table sync in logical replication (Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, and Takamichi Osumi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-07-12 [b1e48bbe6] Include replication origins in SQL functions for commit
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2020-07-20 [0bead9af4] Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID ass
-->
<para>
-Add the replication origin to the record returned by pg_last_committed_xact() (Movead Li)
+Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila)
</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-07-12 [b1e48bbe6] Include replication origins in SQL functions for commit
--->
<para>
-Add function pg_xact_commit_timestamp_origin() to return the commit timestamp and replication origin of the specified transaction (Movead Li)
+This is useful for logical decoding.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-06-14 [cc072641d] Replace superuser check by ACLs for replication origin f
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2020-12-30 [0aa8a01d0] Extend the output plugin API to allow decoding of prepar
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-04 [a271a1b50] Allow decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-03 [19890a064] Add option to enable two_phase commits via pg_create_log
-->
<para>
-Allow replication origin functions to be controlled using standard function permission controls (Martín Marqués)
+Enhance logical decoding APIs to handle two-phase commits (Ajin Cherian, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich)
</para>
<para>
-Previously these functions could only be executed by super-users, and this is still the default.
+This is controlled via pg_create_logical_replication_slot().
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1643,83 +1731,57 @@ When logical replication is disabled, WAL invalidation messages are generated at
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-28 [45fdc9738] Extend the logical decoding output plugin API with strea
--->
-
-<para>
-Enhance the logical replication API to allow streaming large in-progress transactions (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The output functions begin with "stream". test_decoding also supports these.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-01-18 [15251c0a6] Pause recovery for insufficient parameter settings
+2020-10-15 [d7eb52d71] Execute invalidation messages for each XLOG_XACT_INVALID
-->
<para>
-Pause recovery if the primary changes its parameters in a way that prevents replay on the hot standby (Peter Eisentraut)
+Allow logical decoding to more efficiently process cache invalidation messages (Dilip Kumar)
</para>
<para>
-Previously the standby would shut down immediately.
+This allows Logical decoding to work efficiently in presence of a large amount of DDL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2020-12-30 [0aa8a01d0] Extend the output plugin API to allow decoding of prepar
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-04 [a271a1b50] Allow decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-03 [19890a064] Add option to enable two_phase commits via pg_create_log
+2021-04-06 [ac4645c01] Allow pgoutput to send logical decoding messages.
-->
<para>
-Enhance logical decoding APIs to handle two-phase commits (Ajin Cherian, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is controlled via pg_create_logical_replication_slot().
+Allow control over whether logical decoding messages are sent to the replication stream (David Pirotte, Euler Taveira)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
-2020-10-15 [d7eb52d71] Execute invalidation messages for each XLOG_XACT_INVALID
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-07-18 [9de77b545] Allow logical replication to transfer data in binary for
-->
<para>
-Allow logical decoding to more efficiently process cache invalidation messages (Dilip Kumar)
+Allow logical replication subscriptions to use binary transfer mode (Dave Cramer)
</para>
<para>
-This allows Logical decoding to work efficiently in presence of a large amount of DDL.
+This is faster than text mode, but slightly less robust.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-11 [32fd2b57d] Be clear about whether a recovery pause has taken effect
+Author: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-30 [f64ea6dc5] Add a xid argument to the filter_prepare callback for ou
-->
<para>
-Add function pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state() to report the recovery state (Dilip Kumar)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-It gives more detailed information than pg_is_wal_replay_paused(), which still exists.
+Allow logical decoding to be filtered by xid (Markus Wanner)
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -1731,30 +1793,15 @@ It gives more detailed information than pg_is_wal_replay_paused(), which still e
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-13 [6c0373ab7] Allow table-qualified variable names in ON CONFLICT ...
--->
-
-<para>
-Allow the WHERE clause of ON CONFLICT to be table-qualified (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Only the target table can be referenced.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-08 [50e17ad28] Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation
+2020-09-18 [06a7c3154] Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without
-->
<para>
-Allow hash lookup of IN clause with many constants (James Coleman, David Rowley)
+Reduce the number of keywords that can't be used as column labels without "AS" (Mark Dilger)
</para>
<para>
-Previously the only option was to sequentially scan the list of constants.
+There are now 90% fewer restricted keywords.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1790,48 +1837,48 @@ For example, GROUP BY CUBE (a,b), CUBE (b,c) will generate duplicate grouping co
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-02-01 [3696a600e] SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-02-27 [f4adc41c4] Enhanced cycle mark values
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-11-22 [17958972f] Allow a multi-row INSERT to specify DEFAULTs for a gener
-->
<para>
-Add SQL-standard SEARCH and CYCLE clauses for common table expressions (Peter Eisentraut)
+Properly handle DEFAULT values for columns in multi-column inserts (Dean Rasheed)
</para>
<para>
-This could be accomplished previously using existing syntax.
+This used to throw an error.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-22 [17958972f] Allow a multi-row INSERT to specify DEFAULTs for a gener
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-02-01 [3696a600e] SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-02-27 [f4adc41c4] Enhanced cycle mark values
-->
<para>
-Properly handle DEFAULT values for columns in multi-column inserts (Dean Rasheed)
+Add SQL-standard SEARCH and CYCLE clauses for common table expressions (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
-This used to throw an error.
+This could be accomplished previously using existing syntax.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-18 [06a7c3154] Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without
+2021-04-13 [6c0373ab7] Allow table-qualified variable names in ON CONFLICT ...
-->
<para>
-Reduce the number of keywords that can't be used as column labels without "AS" (Mark Dilger)
+Allow the WHERE clause of ON CONFLICT to be table-qualified (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-There are now 90% fewer restricted keywords.
+Only the target table can be referenced.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1846,193 +1893,163 @@ There are now 90% fewer restricted keywords.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-08 [8ff1c9464] Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables.
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-17 [9e7ccd9ef] Enable parallelism in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW.
-->
<para>
-Allow TRUNCATE to operate on foreign tables (Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The postgres_fdw module also now supports this.
+Allow REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to use parallelism (Bharath Rupireddy)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-04-06 [82ed7748b] ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-02-04 [c5b286047] Add TABLESPACE option to REINDEX
-->
<para>
-Allow publications to be more easily added and removed (Japin Li)
+Allow REINDEX to change the tablespace of the new index (Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby)
</para>
<para>
-The new syntax is ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION. This avoids having to specify all publications to add/remove entries.
+This is done by specifying a TABLESPACE clause.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-02 [b1be3074a] postgres_fdw: Add option to control whether to keep conn
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-09-08 [a6642b3ae] Add support for partitioned tables and indexes in REINDE
-->
<para>
-Allow control over whether foreign servers keep connections open after transaction completion (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is controlled by keep_connections and defaults to on.
+Allow REINDEX to process all child tables or indexes of a partitioned relation (Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-17 [9e7ccd9ef] Enable parallelism in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-07-25 [0a0727ccf] Improve performance of binary COPY FROM through better b
-->
<para>
-Allow REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to use parallelism (Bharath Rupireddy)
+Improve the performance of COPY FROM in binary mode (Bharath Rupireddy, Amit Langote)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-02-09 [7cb3048f3] Add option PROCESS_TOAST to VACUUM
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-11-04 [40c24bfef] Improve our ability to regurgitate SQL-syntax function c
-->
<para>
-Add ability to skip vacuuming of TOAST tables (Nathan Bossart)
+Preserve SQL standard syntax in view definitions, if possible (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-VACUUM now has a PROCESS_TOAST which can be set to false to disable TOAST processing, and vacuumdb has a --no-process-toast option.
+Previously non-function call SQL standard syntax, e.g. EXTRACT, were converted to non-SQL standard function calls.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-02-04 [c5b286047] Add TABLESPACE option to REINDEX
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-01-30 [6aaaa76bb] Allow GRANTED BY clause in normal GRANT and REVOKE state
-->
<para>
-Allow REINDEX to change the tablespace of the new index (Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is done by specifying a TABLESPACE clause.
+Add the SQL-standard clause GRANTED BY to GRANT and REVOKE (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-01-30 [dfb75e478] Add primary keys and unique constraints to system catalo
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-02-02 [62f34097c] Build in some knowledge about foreign-key relationships
+2020-11-14 [92bf7e2d0] Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.
-->
<para>
-Add primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys to system catalogs (Peter Eisentraut)
+Add OR REPLACE for CREATE TRIGGER (Takamichi Osumi)
</para>
<para>
-This helps GUI tools analyze the system tables.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-01-30 [6aaaa76bb] Allow GRANTED BY clause in normal GRANT and REVOKE state
--->
-
-<para>
-Add the SQL-standard clause GRANTED BY to GRANT and REVOKE (Peter Eisentraut)
+This allows pre-existing triggers to be conditionally replaced.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-12-30 [e665769e6] Sanitize IF NOT EXISTS in EXPLAIN for CTAS and matviews
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-04-02 [b1be3074a] postgres_fdw: Add option to control whether to keep conn
-->
<para>
-Fix EXPLAIN CREATE TABLE AS and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to honor IF NOT EXISTS (Bharath Rupireddy)
+Allow control over whether foreign servers keep connections open after transaction completion (Bharath Rupireddy)
</para>
<para>
-Previously, if the object already exists, EXPLAIN would fail.
+This is controlled by keep_connections and defaults to on.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-14 [92bf7e2d0] Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-04-08 [8ff1c9464] Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables.
-->
<para>
-Add OR REPLACE for CREATE TRIGGER (Takamichi Osumi)
+Allow TRUNCATE to operate on foreign tables (Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai)
</para>
<para>
-This allows pre-existing triggers to be conditionally replaced.
+The postgres_fdw module also now supports this.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-04 [40c24bfef] Improve our ability to regurgitate SQL-syntax function c
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-04-06 [82ed7748b] ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION
-->
<para>
-Preserve SQL standard syntax in view definitions, if possible (Tom Lane)
+Allow publications to be more easily added and removed (Japin Li)
</para>
<para>
-Previously non-function call SQL standard syntax, e.g. EXTRACT, were converted to non-SQL standard function calls.
+The new syntax is ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION. This avoids having to specify all publications to add/remove entries.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-09-17 [45b980570] Allow CURRENT_ROLE where CURRENT_USER is accepted
+2021-01-30 [dfb75e478] Add primary keys and unique constraints to system catalo
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-02-02 [62f34097c] Build in some knowledge about foreign-key relationships
-->
<para>
-Allow CURRENT_ROLE every place CURRENT_USER is accepted (Peter Eisentraut)
+Add primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys to system catalogs (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-09-08 [a6642b3ae] Add support for partitioned tables and indexes in REINDE
--->
<para>
-Allow REINDEX to process all child tables or indexes of a partitioned relation (Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier)
+This helps GUI tools analyze the system tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-25 [0a0727ccf] Improve performance of binary COPY FROM through better b
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-09-17 [45b980570] Allow CURRENT_ROLE where CURRENT_USER is accepted
-->
<para>
-Improve the performance of COPY FROM in binary mode (Bharath Rupireddy, Amit Langote)
+Allow CURRENT_ROLE every place CURRENT_USER is accepted (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2047,17 +2064,6 @@ Improve the performance of COPY FROM in binary mode (Bharath Rupireddy, Amit Lan
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-06 [f7f70d5e2] Create composite array types for initdb-created relation
--->
-
-<para>
-Create composite array types for most system relations (Wenjing Zeng)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
Author: Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
2020-12-20 [6df7a9698] Multirange datatypes
Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
@@ -2087,19 +2093,22 @@ Add point operators &lt;&lt;| and |&gt;&gt; to be strictly above/below geometry
</para>
<para>
-Previously &gt;^ and &lt;^ were marked as performing this test, but non-point geometric operators used these operators for non-strict comparisons, leading to confusion. The old operators still exist but will be
-eventually removed. ACCURATE?
+Previously &gt;^ and &lt;^ were marked as performing this test, but non-point geometric operators used these operators for non-strict comparisons, leading to confusion. The old operators still exist but will be eventually removed. ACCURATE?
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-21 [8597a48d0] Fix FPeq() and friends to get the right answers for infi
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-08 [cbcc8726b] Update snowball
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-08 [c2e71cb35] Update documentation for snowball update
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-02-19 [678d0e239] Update snowball
-->
<para>
-Improve the accuracy of floating point computations involving infinity (Tom Lane)
+Add support for the stemming of languages Armenian, Basque, Catalan, Hindi, Serbian, and Yiddish (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2136,37 +2145,11 @@ Floating point data types already supported these.
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-21 [670c0a1d4] Weaken type-OID-matching checks in array_recv and record
--->
-
-<para>
-Allow binary data transfer to be more forgiving of array and record OID mismatches (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-06-30 [9bae7e4cd] Add +(pg_lsn,numeric) and -(pg_lsn,numeric) operators.
--->
-
-<para>
-Add operators to add and subtract LSN and numeric (byte) values (Fujii Masao)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-08 [cbcc8726b] Update snowball
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-08 [c2e71cb35] Update documentation for snowball update
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-02-19 [678d0e239] Update snowball
+2020-11-21 [8597a48d0] Fix FPeq() and friends to get the right answers for infi
-->
<para>
-Add support for the stemming of languages Armenian, Basque, Catalan, Hindi, Serbian, and Yiddish (Peter Eisentraut)
+Improve the accuracy of floating point computations involving infinity (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2200,45 +2183,48 @@ Previously this returned an error. Division with Numerics always returned NaN.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3>
- <title>Functions</title>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-07-15 [2a10fdc43] Eliminate cache lookup errors in SQL functions for objec
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-06-30 [9bae7e4cd] Add +(pg_lsn,numeric) and -(pg_lsn,numeric) operators.
-->
<para>
-Change pg_describe_object(), pg_identify_object(), and pg_identify_object_as_address() to always report helpful error messages for non-existent objects (Michael Paquier)
+Add operators to add and subtract LSN and numeric (byte) values (Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-06-14 [decbe2bfb] Fix behavior of exp() and power() for infinity inputs.
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-06-15 [e532b1d57] Fix power() for infinity inputs some more.
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-06-15 [5674eb987] Fix power() for large inputs yet more.
+2020-07-21 [670c0a1d4] Weaken type-OID-matching checks in array_recv and record
-->
<para>
-Cause exp() and power() for negative-infinity exponents to return zero (Tom Lane)
+Allow binary data transfer to be more forgiving of array and record OID mismatches (Tom Lane)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-07-06 [f7f70d5e2] Create composite array types for initdb-created relation
+-->
<para>
-Previously they often returned underflow errors.
+Create composite array types for most system relations (Wenjing Zeng)
</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Functions</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
@@ -2257,276 +2243,291 @@ Previously only single-quoted or $$-quoted function bodies were supported.
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-03-29 [f37fec837] Add unistr function
+2020-10-05 [2453ea142] Support for OUT parameters in procedures
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-10-27 [9213462c5] Make procedure OUT parameters work with JDBC
-->
<para>
-Add unistr() function to allow Unicode characters to be specified as backslash-hex escapes in strings (Pavel Stehule)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is similar to how Unicode can be specified in literal string.
+Allow procedures to have OUT parameters (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-03-24 [49ab61f0b] Add date_bin function
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-04-10 [496e58bb0] Improve behavior of date_bin with origin in the future
+Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-31 [676887a3b] Implementation of subscripting for jsonb
+Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-31 [81fcc72e6] Filling array gaps during jsonb subscripting
+Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-31 [aa6e46daf] Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a com
-->
<para>
-Add date_bin function (John Naylor)
+Allow subscripting of JSONB and simplify the implementation of subscripting (Dmitry Dolgov)
</para>
<para>
-The function date_bin "bins" the input timestamp into a specified interval aligned with a specified origin.
+JSONB subscripting can be used to extract from and assign to JSONB documents. Extensions and built-in data types can now implement subscripting more easily.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-03-23 [a6715af1e] Add bit_count SQL function
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-11-04 [9e38c2bb5] Declare assorted array functions using anycompatible not
-->
<para>
-Add function bit_count() to return the number of bits set in a bit or byte string (David Fetter)
+Allow some array functions to operate on a mix of compatible data types (Tom Lane)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The functions are array_append() array_prepend(), array_cat(), array_position(), array_positions(), array_remove(), array_replace(), and width_bucket(). Previously only identical data types could be used.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-08 [fed10d4ee] Properly mark pg_stat_get_subscription() as returning a
+2021-03-03 [0a687c8f1] Add trim_array() function.
-->
<para>
-Mark pg_stat_get_subscription() as returning a set (Tom Lane)
+Add SQL-standard trim_array() function (Vik Fearing)
</para>
<para>
-While it worked in previous releases, it didn't report proper optimizer statistics and couldn't be used in the target list.
+This can already be done with array slices.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-03-06 [f9a0392e1] Add bit_xor aggregate function
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-01-18 [a6cf3df4e] Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim().
-->
<para>
-Add bit_xor XOR aggregate function (Alexey Bashtanov)
+Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim() (Joel Jacobson)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-03 [0a687c8f1] Add trim_array() function.
+2020-11-13 [ec0294fb2] Support negative indexes in split_part().
-->
<para>
-Add SQL-standard trim_array() function (Vik Fearing)
+Support negative indexes in split_part() (Nikhil Benesch)
</para>
<para>
-This can already be done with array slices.
+Negative values start from the last field and count backward.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
-2021-02-27 [bb437f995] Add TID Range Scans to support efficient scanning ranges
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-09-02 [66f163068] Add string_to_table() function.
-->
<para>
-Allow efficient heap scanning of a range of tids (Edmund Horner, David Rowley)
+A string_to_table() function to split a string on delimiters (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
<para>
-Previously a sequential scan was required for non-equality tid specifications.
+This is similar to the regexp_split_to_table() function.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-02-25 [2a0af7fe4] Allow complemented character class escapes within regex
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-03-29 [f37fec837] Add unistr function
-->
<para>
-Add [[:word:]] as a character class to match \w (Tom Lane)
+Add unistr() function to allow Unicode characters to be specified as backslash-hex escapes in strings (Pavel Stehule)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This is similar to how Unicode can be specified in literal string.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-02-25 [2a0af7fe4] Allow complemented character class escapes within regex
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-03-06 [f9a0392e1] Add bit_xor aggregate function
-->
<para>
-Allow complemented character class escapes \D, \S, and \W within regex brackets (Tom Lane)
+Add bit_xor XOR aggregate function (Alexey Bashtanov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-31 [676887a3b] Implementation of subscripting for jsonb
-Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-31 [81fcc72e6] Filling array gaps during jsonb subscripting
-Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-31 [aa6e46daf] Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a com
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-03-23 [a6715af1e] Add bit_count SQL function
-->
<para>
-Allow subscripting of JSONB and simplify the implementation of subscripting (Dmitry Dolgov)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-JSONB subscripting can be used to extract from and assign to JSONB documents. Extensions and built-in data types can now implement subscripting more easily.
+Add function bit_count() to return the number of bits set in a bit or byte string (David Fetter)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-18 [a6cf3df4e] Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim().
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-03-24 [49ab61f0b] Add date_bin function
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-04-10 [496e58bb0] Improve behavior of date_bin with origin in the future
-->
<para>
-Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim() (Joel Jacobson)
+Add date_bin function (John Naylor)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The function date_bin "bins" the input timestamp into a specified interval aligned with a specified origin.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-13 [5a6f9bce8] Mark inet_server_addr() and inet_server_port() as parall
+2020-09-29 [a094c8ff5] Fix make_timestamp[tz] to accept negative years as meani
-->
<para>
-Prevent inet_server_addr() and inet_server_port() from being run by parallel workers (Masahiko Sawada)
+Allow make_timestamp/make_timestamptz to accept negative years (Peter Eisentraut)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+They are interpreted as BC years.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-13 [ec0294fb2] Support negative indexes in split_part().
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-29 [78c887679] Add current substring regular expression syntax
-->
<para>
-Support negative indexes in split_part() (Nikhil Benesch)
+Add newer regular expression substring() syntax (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
-Negative values start from the last field and count backward.
+The new syntax is SUBSTRING(text SIMILAR pattern ESCAPE escapechar). The previous standard syntax was SUBSTRING(text FROM pattern FOR escapechar), and is still supported by Postgres.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-04 [9e38c2bb5] Declare assorted array functions using anycompatible not
+2021-02-25 [2a0af7fe4] Allow complemented character class escapes within regex
-->
<para>
-Allow some array functions to operate on a mix of compatible data types (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The functions are array_append() array_prepend(), array_cat(), array_position(), array_positions(), array_remove(), array_replace(), and width_bucket(). Previously only identical data types could be used.
+Allow complemented character class escapes \D, \S, and \W within regex brackets (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-11-04 [5c292e6b9] Declare lead() and lag() using anycompatible not anyelem
+2021-02-25 [2a0af7fe4] Allow complemented character class escapes within regex
-->
<para>
-Allow more flexible data types for default values of lead() and lag() window functions (Vik Fearing)
+Add [[:word:]] as a character class to match \w (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-10-05 [2453ea142] Support for OUT parameters in procedures
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-10-27 [9213462c5] Make procedure OUT parameters work with JDBC
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-11-04 [5c292e6b9] Declare lead() and lag() using anycompatible not anyelem
-->
<para>
-Allow procedures to have OUT parameters (Peter Eisentraut)
+Allow more flexible data types for default values of lead() and lag() window functions (Vik Fearing)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-29 [a094c8ff5] Fix make_timestamp[tz] to accept negative years as meani
+2020-06-14 [decbe2bfb] Fix behavior of exp() and power() for infinity inputs.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-06-15 [e532b1d57] Fix power() for infinity inputs some more.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-06-15 [5674eb987] Fix power() for large inputs yet more.
-->
<para>
-Allow make_timestamp/make_timestamptz to accept negative years (Peter Eisentraut)
+Cause exp() and power() for negative-infinity exponents to return zero (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-They are interpreted as BC years.
+Previously they often returned underflow errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-02 [66f163068] Add string_to_table() function.
+2020-07-25 [8a37951ee] Mark built-in coercion functions as leakproof where poss
-->
<para>
-A string_to_table() function to split a string on delimiters (Pavel Stehule)
+Mark built-in type coercion functions as leakproof where possible (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-This is similar to the regexp_split_to_table() function.
+This allows more use of functions that require type conversion in security-sensitive situations.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-07-25 [8a37951ee] Mark built-in coercion functions as leakproof where poss
+2021-03-08 [fed10d4ee] Properly mark pg_stat_get_subscription() as returning a
-->
<para>
-Mark built-in type coercion functions as leakproof where possible (Tom Lane)
+Mark pg_stat_get_subscription() as returning a set (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-This allows more use of functions that require type conversion in security-sensitive situations.
+While it worked in previous releases, it didn't report proper optimizer statistics and couldn't be used in the target list.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-29 [78c887679] Add current substring regular expression syntax
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-01-13 [5a6f9bce8] Mark inet_server_addr() and inet_server_port() as parall
-->
<para>
-Add newer regular expression substring() syntax (Peter Eisentraut)
+Prevent inet_server_addr() and inet_server_port() from being run by parallel workers (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-07-15 [2a10fdc43] Eliminate cache lookup errors in SQL functions for objec
+-->
<para>
-The new syntax is SUBSTRING(text SIMILAR pattern ESCAPE escapechar). The previous standard syntax was SUBSTRING(text FROM pattern FOR escapechar), and is still supported by Postgres.
+Change pg_describe_object(), pg_identify_object(), and pg_identify_object_as_address() to always report helpful error messages for non-existent objects (Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2542,37 +2543,37 @@ The new syntax is SUBSTRING(text SIMILAR pattern ESCAPE escapechar). The previo
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-25 [ee895a655] Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql pro
+2021-01-04 [c9d529848] Re-implement pl/pgsql's expression and assignment parsin
-->
<para>
-Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures (Pavel Stehule, Tom Lane)
+Improve PL/pgSQL's expression and assignment parsing (Tom Lane)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This adds nested record and array slicing support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-04 [c9d529848] Re-implement pl/pgsql's expression and assignment parsin
+2020-06-12 [2f48ede08] Avoid using a cursor in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY statement
-->
<para>
-Improve PL/pgSQL's expression and assignment parsing (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This adds nested record and array slicing support.
+Allow plpgsql's RETURN QUERY to execute its query using parallelism (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-06-12 [2f48ede08] Avoid using a cursor in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY statement
+2021-01-25 [ee895a655] Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql pro
-->
<para>
-Allow plpgsql's RETURN QUERY to execute its query using parallelism (Tom Lane)
+Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures (Pavel Stehule, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2588,73 +2589,73 @@ Allow plpgsql's RETURN QUERY to execute its query using parallelism (Tom Lane)
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
-2021-03-30 [198b3716d] Improve PQtrace() output format
+2021-03-15 [acb7e4eb6] Implement pipeline mode in libpq
-->
<para>
-Improve the output format of libpq's PQtrace() (Aya Iwata)
+Add pipeline mode to libpq (Craig Ringer, Matthieu Garrigues, Álvaro Herrera)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This allows multiple queries to be sent and only wait for completion when a specific synchronization message is sent.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
-2021-03-24 [ad8305a43] Add DECLARE STATEMENT command to ECPG
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-03-02 [d16f8c8e4] Mark default_transaction_read_only as GUC_REPORT.
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-03-02 [ee28cacf6] Extend the abilities of libpq's target_session_attrs par
-->
<para>
-Allow an ECPG SQL identifier to be linked to a specific connection (Hayato Kuroda)
+Enhance libpq's target_session_attrs parameter options (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Vignesh C, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-This is done via DECLARE ... STATEMENT.
+New options are "read-only", "primary", "standby", and "prefer-standby".
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
-2021-03-15 [acb7e4eb6] Implement pipeline mode in libpq
+2021-03-30 [198b3716d] Improve PQtrace() output format
-->
<para>
-Add pipeline mode to libpq (Craig Ringer, Matthieu Garrigues, Álvaro Herrera)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This allows multiple queries to be sent and only wait for completion when a specific synchronization message is sent.
+Improve the output format of libpq's PQtrace() (Aya Iwata)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-02 [d16f8c8e4] Mark default_transaction_read_only as GUC_REPORT.
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-02 [ee28cacf6] Extend the abilities of libpq's target_session_attrs par
+2020-09-22 [c0cb87fbb] Remove arbitrary line length limit for libpq service fil
-->
<para>
-Enhance libpq's target_session_attrs parameter options (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Vignesh C, Tom Lane)
+Allow libpq service files to have unlimited line lengths (Daniel Gustafsson)
</para>
<para>
-New options are "read-only", "primary", "standby", and "prefer-standby".
+The previous limit was 255 bytes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-22 [c0cb87fbb] Remove arbitrary line length limit for libpq service fil
+Author: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
+2021-03-24 [ad8305a43] Add DECLARE STATEMENT command to ECPG
-->
<para>
-Allow libpq service files to have unlimited line lengths (Daniel Gustafsson)
+Allow an ECPG SQL identifier to be linked to a specific connection (Hayato Kuroda)
</para>
<para>
-The previous limit was 255 bytes.
+This is done via DECLARE ... STATEMENT.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2670,108 +2671,115 @@ The previous limit was 255 bytes.
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-06-22 [9550ea302] Add - -no-index-cleanup and - -no-truncate to vacuumdb.
+2021-03-03 [57e6db706] Add - -tablespace option to reindexdb
-->
<para>
-Allow vacuumdb to skip index cleanup and truncation (Nathan Bossart)
+Allow reindexdb to change the tablespace of the new index (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
-The options are --no-index-cleanup and --no-truncate.
+This is done by specifying --tablespace.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-09-17 [99175141c] Improve common/logging.c's support for multiple verbosit
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-06-22 [9550ea302] Add - -no-index-cleanup and - -no-truncate to vacuumdb.
-->
<para>
-Allow multiple verbose option specifications (-v) to increase the logging verbosity (Tom Lane)
+Allow vacuumdb to skip index cleanup and truncation (Nathan Bossart)
</para>
<para>
-This is now supported by pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore.
+The options are --no-index-cleanup and --no-truncate.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-03 [57e6db706] Add - -tablespace option to reindexdb
+2021-03-31 [6568cef26] Add support for - -extension in pg_dump
-->
<para>
-Allow reindexdb to change the tablespace of the new index (Michael Paquier)
+Allow pg_dump to dump only certain extensions (Guillaume Lelarge)
</para>
<para>
-This is done by specifying --tablespace.
+This is controlled by option --extension.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <sect4>
- <title><xref linkend="app-psql"/></title>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-07 [a3027e1e7] Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument ty
+Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
+2021-04-06 [6b258e3d6] pgbench: Function to generate random permutations.
-->
<para>
-Fix psql's \dT to understand array syntax and backend grammar aliases, like "int" for "integer" (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
+Add pgbench permute() function to randomly shuffle values (Fabien Coelho, Hironobu Suzuki, Dean Rasheed)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-07 [a3027e1e7] Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument ty
+2020-09-17 [99175141c] Improve common/logging.c's support for multiple verbosit
-->
<para>
-Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify function and operator argument types (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
+Allow multiple verbose option specifications (-v) to increase the logging verbosity (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-This helps reduce the number of matches for overloaded entries.
+This is now supported by pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore.
</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <sect4>
+ <title><xref linkend="app-psql"/></title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-04-03 [55873a00e] Improve psql's behavior when the editor is exited withou
+2021-04-07 [a3027e1e7] Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument ty
-->
<para>
-When editing the previous query or a file with psql's \e, or using \ef and \ev, ignore the contents if the editor exits without saving (Laurenz Albe)
+Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify function and operator argument types (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-Previously, such edits would still execute the editor contents.
+This helps reduce the number of matches for overloaded entries.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-03-31 [6568cef26] Add support for - -extension in pg_dump
+2020-09-02 [07f386ede] Add access method names to \d[i|m|t]+ in psql
-->
<para>
-Allow pg_dump to dump only certain extensions (Guillaume Lelarge)
+Add an access method column to psql's \d[i|m|t]+ output (Georgios Kokolatos)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-01-05 [7d80441d2] Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their
+-->
<para>
-This is controlled by option --extension.
+Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their indexes (Justin Pryzby)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2789,37 +2797,41 @@ Add psql command \dX to list extended statistics objects (Tatsuro Yamada)
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-05 [7d80441d2] Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their
+2021-04-07 [a3027e1e7] Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument ty
-->
<para>
-Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their indexes (Justin Pryzby)
+Fix psql's \dT to understand array syntax and backend grammar aliases, like "int" for "integer" (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-10-22 [94929f1cf] Clean up some unpleasant behaviors in psql's \connect co
+2021-04-03 [55873a00e] Improve psql's behavior when the editor is exited withou
-->
<para>
-Improve psql's handling of \connect with -reuse-previous (Tom Lane)
+When editing the previous query or a file with psql's \e, or using \ef and \ev, ignore the contents if the editor exits without saving (Laurenz Albe)
</para>
<para>
-Specifically, properly reuse the password previously specified, and prompt for a new password if the previous one failed.
+Previously, such edits would still execute the editor contents.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-09-02 [07f386ede] Add access method names to \d[i|m|t]+ in psql
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-10-22 [94929f1cf] Clean up some unpleasant behaviors in psql's \connect co
-->
<para>
-Add an access method column to psql's \d[i|m|t]+ output (Georgios Kokolatos)
+Improve psql's handling of \connect with -reuse-previous (Tom Lane)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Specifically, properly reuse the password previously specified, and prompt for a new password if the previous one failed.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2870,26 +2882,6 @@ Improve tab completion (Vignesh C, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby, Georgios Koko
</sect4>
- <sect4>
- <title><link linkend="pgbench"><application>pgbench</application></link></title>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
-2021-04-06 [6b258e3d6] pgbench: Function to generate random permutations.
--->
-
-<para>
-Add pgbench permute() function to randomly shuffle values (Fabien Coelho, Hironobu Suzuki, Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect4>
-
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -2926,30 +2918,30 @@ This removes the server start instructions that are normally output.
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
-2020-11-10 [d2e4bf688] Remove -o option to postmaster
+2020-11-09 [8f113698b] Remove analyze_new_cluster script from pg_upgrade
-->
<para>
-Remove support for the postmaster -o option (Magnus Hagander)
+Stop pg_upgrade from creating analyze_new_cluster script (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
-This option was unnecessary since all passed options could already be specified directly.
+Instead, give comparable vacuumdb instructions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
-2020-11-09 [8f113698b] Remove analyze_new_cluster script from pg_upgrade
+2020-11-10 [d2e4bf688] Remove -o option to postmaster
-->
<para>
-Stop pg_upgrade from creating analyze_new_cluster script (Michael Paquier)
+Remove support for the postmaster -o option (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
-Instead, give comparable vacuumdb instructions.
+This option was unnecessary since all passed options could already be specified directly.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3014,23 +3006,16 @@ The option --with-openssl is kept for compatibility.
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
-2021-01-28 [6c5576075] Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5.
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-11-25 [c9f0624bc] Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets
-->
<para>
-Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5 (Heikki Linnakangas)
+Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-01-06 [ca8217c10] Add a test module for the regular expression package.
--->
<para>
-Add a test module for the regular expression package (Tom Lane)
+This is currently supported on Linux and Windows.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3051,37 +3036,59 @@ Previously this could only be controlled at compile time and is enabled only in
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-12-04 [4f48a6fbe] Change SHA2 implementation based on OpenSSL to use EVP d
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2020-12-10 [b67b57a96] Refactor MD5 implementations according to new cryptohash
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-01-23 [a8ed6bb8f] Introduce SHA1 implementations in the cryptohash infrast
-Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
-2021-04-03 [e6bdfd970] Refactor HMAC implementations
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2020-07-17 [1e0dfd166] Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2020-07-19 [46ef520b9] Mark buffers as defined to Valgrind consistently.
+Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
+2020-07-19 [a766d6ca2] Avoid harmless Valgrind no-buffer-pin errors.
-->
<para>
-Change SHA1, SHA2, and MD5 hash computations to use the OpenSSL EVP API (Michael Paquier)
+Various improvements in valgrind detection (Álvaro Herrera, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-01-06 [ca8217c10] Add a test module for the regular expression package.
+-->
<para>
-This is more modern and supports FIPS mode.
+Add a test module for the regular expression package (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-11-25 [c9f0624bc] Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets
+Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
+2020-11-09 [6c57f2ed1] jit: Add support for LLVM 12.
-->
<para>
-Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets (Peter Eisentraut)
+Add support for LLVM 12 (Andres Freund)
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-12-04 [4f48a6fbe] Change SHA2 implementation based on OpenSSL to use EVP d
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2020-12-10 [b67b57a96] Refactor MD5 implementations according to new cryptohash
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-01-23 [a8ed6bb8f] Introduce SHA1 implementations in the cryptohash infrast
+Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
+2021-04-03 [e6bdfd970] Refactor HMAC implementations
+-->
+
+<para>
+Change SHA1, SHA2, and MD5 hash computations to use the OpenSSL EVP API (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
-This is currently supported on Linux and Windows.
+This is more modern and supports FIPS mode.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3098,23 +3105,23 @@ Remove build control over the random library used (Daniel Gustafsson)
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
-2020-11-20 [ca051d8b1] Add collation versions for FreeBSD.
+Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
+2021-01-28 [6c5576075] Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5.
-->
<para>
-Add collation versions for FreeBSD (Thomas Munro)
+Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5 (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
-2020-11-09 [6c57f2ed1] jit: Add support for LLVM 12.
+Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
+2020-11-20 [ca051d8b1] Add collation versions for FreeBSD.
-->
<para>
-Add support for LLVM 12 (Andres Freund)
+Add collation versions for FreeBSD (Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3133,21 +3140,6 @@ REMOVE?
</para>
</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2020-07-17 [1e0dfd166] Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2020-07-19 [46ef520b9] Mark buffers as defined to Valgrind consistently.
-Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
-2020-07-19 [a766d6ca2] Avoid harmless Valgrind no-buffer-pin errors.
--->
-
-<para>
-Various improvements in valgrind detection (Álvaro Herrera, Peter Geoghegan)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -3191,89 +3183,104 @@ Previously, when tracking all statements, identical top and nested statements we
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-04-07 [a3740c48e] postgres_fdw: Allow partitions specified in LIMIT TO to
+2020-07-29 [6023b7ea7] pg_stat_statements: track number of rows processed by so
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-11-12 [b62e6056a] pg_stat_statements: track number of rows processed by RE
-->
<para>
-Allow postgres_fdw to import table partitions if specified by IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA ... LIMIT TO (Matthias van de Meent)
+Add row counts for utility commands to pg_stat_statements (Fujii Masao, Katsuragi Yuta, Seino Yuki)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-11-26 [9fbc3f318] pg_stat_statements: Track number of times pgss entries w
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-12-18 [2e0fedf03] pg_stat_statements: Track time at which all statistics w
+-->
<para>
-By default, only the root of partitioned tables is imported.
+Add pg_stat_statements_info system view to show pg_stat_statements activity (Katsuragi Yuta, Yuki Seino, Naoki Nakamichi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-26 [411ae6499] postgres_fdw: Add functions to discard cached connection
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2020-12-11 [0ec5f7e78] Allow subscripting of hstore values.
-->
<para>
-Add postgres_fdw functions to discard cached connections (Bharath Rupireddy)
+Allow subscripting of hstore values (Tom Lane, Dmitry Dolgov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-20 [b663a4136] Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw
-Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
-2021-02-18 [927f453a9] Fix tuple routing to initialize batching only for insert
+Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
+2020-11-15 [935f66665] Handle equality operator in contrib/pg_trgm
-->
<para>
-Allow postgres_fdw to INSERT rows in bulk (Takayuki Tsunakawa, Tomas Vondra, Amit Langote)
+Allow GiST/GIN pg_trgm indexes to do equality lookups (Julien Rouhaud)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This is similar to LIKE except no wildcards are honored.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2021-01-18 [708d165dd] postgres_fdw: Add function to list cached connections to
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+2021-03-06 [1265a9c8f] Add binary I/O capability for cube datatype.
-->
<para>
-Add postgres_fdw function postgres_fdw_get_connections to report open foreign server connections (Bharath Rupireddy)
+Allow the cube data type to be transferred in binary mode (KaiGai Kohei)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-10-06 [32a9c0bdf] postgres_fdw: reestablish new connection if cached one i
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-10-16 [7fc1a81e4] postgres_fdw: Restructure connection retry logic.
+Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
+2020-09-10 [34a947ca1] New contrib module, pg_surgery, with heap surgery functi
-->
<para>
-Allow postgres_fdw to reestablish foreign server connections if necessary (Bharath Rupireddy)
+Add contrib module pg_surgery which allows changes to row visibility (Ashutosh Sharma)
</para>
<para>
-Previously foreign server restarts could cause foreign table access errors.
+This is useful for correcting database corruption.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2021-03-06 [1265a9c8f] Add binary I/O capability for cube datatype.
+Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
+2020-09-24 [aecf5ee2b] Add new 'old_snapshot' contrib module.
-->
<para>
-Allow the cube data type to be transferred in binary mode (KaiGai Kohei)
+Add contrib module old_snapshot to report the XID/time mapping used by an active old_snapshot_threshold (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2021-01-19 [f18aa1b20] pageinspect: Change block number arguments to bigint
+Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
+2020-10-22 [866e24d47] Extend amcheck to check heap pages.
-->
<para>
-Change pageinspect block numbers to be bigints (Peter Eisentraut)
+Allow amcheck to also check heap pages (Mark Dilger)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously it only checked B-Tree index pages.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -3290,120 +3297,114 @@ Allow pageinspect to inspect GiST indexes (Andrey Borodin, Heikki Linnakangas)
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-2020-12-11 [0ec5f7e78] Allow subscripting of hstore values.
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2021-01-19 [f18aa1b20] pageinspect: Change block number arguments to bigint
-->
<para>
-Allow subscripting of hstore values (Tom Lane, Dmitry Dolgov)
+Change pageinspect block numbers to be bigints (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-11-26 [9fbc3f318] pg_stat_statements: Track number of times pgss entries w
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-12-18 [2e0fedf03] pg_stat_statements: Track time at which all statistics w
+Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
+2020-06-30 [ee0202d55] pgstattuple: Have pgstattuple_approx accept TOAST tables
-->
<para>
-Add pg_stat_statements_info system view to show pg_stat_statements activity (Katsuragi Yuta, Yuki Seino, Naoki Nakamichi)
+Allow pgstattuple_approx() to report on TOAST tables (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
-2020-11-15 [935f66665] Handle equality operator in contrib/pg_trgm
+2020-07-20 [d98c08cdc] Update btree_gist extension for parallel query
-->
<para>
-Allow GiST/GIN pg_trgm indexes to do equality lookups (Julien Rouhaud)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is similar to LIKE except no wildcards are honored.
+Mark btree_gist functions as parallel safe (Steven Winfield)
</para>
</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-2020-10-22 [866e24d47] Extend amcheck to check heap pages.
--->
+ </itemizedlist>
-<para>
-Allow amcheck to also check heap pages (Mark Dilger)
-</para>
+ <sect4>
+ <title>Postgres_fdw</title>
-<para>
-Previously it only checked B-Tree index pages.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-2020-09-24 [aecf5ee2b] Add new 'old_snapshot' contrib module.
+Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-20 [b663a4136] Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw
+Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
+2021-02-18 [927f453a9] Fix tuple routing to initialize batching only for insert
-->
<para>
-Add contrib module old_snapshot to report the XID/time mapping used by an active old_snapshot_threshold (Robert Haas)
+Allow postgres_fdw to INSERT rows in bulk (Takayuki Tsunakawa, Tomas Vondra, Amit Langote)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-2020-09-10 [34a947ca1] New contrib module, pg_surgery, with heap surgery functi
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-04-07 [a3740c48e] postgres_fdw: Allow partitions specified in LIMIT TO to
-->
<para>
-Add contrib module pg_surgery which allows changes to row visibility (Ashutosh Sharma)
+Allow postgres_fdw to import table partitions if specified by IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA ... LIMIT TO (Matthias van de Meent)
</para>
<para>
-This is useful for correcting database corruption.
+By default, only the root of partitioned tables is imported.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-29 [6023b7ea7] pg_stat_statements: track number of rows processed by so
-Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
-2020-11-12 [b62e6056a] pg_stat_statements: track number of rows processed by RE
+2021-01-18 [708d165dd] postgres_fdw: Add function to list cached connections to
-->
<para>
-Add row counts for utility commands to pg_stat_statements (Fujii Masao, Katsuragi Yuta, Seino Yuki)
+Add postgres_fdw function postgres_fdw_get_connections to report open foreign server connections (Bharath Rupireddy)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
-2020-07-20 [d98c08cdc] Update btree_gist extension for parallel query
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2021-01-26 [411ae6499] postgres_fdw: Add functions to discard cached connection
-->
<para>
-Mark btree_gist functions as parallel safe (Steven Winfield)
+Add postgres_fdw functions to discard cached connections (Bharath Rupireddy)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
-Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
-2020-06-30 [ee0202d55] pgstattuple: Have pgstattuple_approx accept TOAST tables
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-10-06 [32a9c0bdf] postgres_fdw: reestablish new connection if cached one i
+Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
+2020-10-16 [7fc1a81e4] postgres_fdw: Restructure connection retry logic.
-->
<para>
-Allow pgstattuple_approx() to report on TOAST tables (Peter Eisentraut)
+Allow postgres_fdw to reestablish foreign server connections if necessary (Bharath Rupireddy)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously foreign server restarts could cause foreign table access errors.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect4>
</sect3>