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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 35 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index e0573ae4599..b935ead4d82 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.509 2007/10/03 03:32:31 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.510 2007/10/03 22:06:13 neilc Exp $ --> <!-- Typical markup: @@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. The I/O needed for a checkpoint is now spread over a fairly long period of time, rather than being spat out in a burst. This happens only for background checkpoints carried out by the bgwriter; other - cases, such as a shutdown checkpoint, are still - done at full speed. + cases, such as a shutdown checkpoint, are still done at full speed. </para> </listitem> @@ -196,8 +195,8 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </para> <para> - This change allows a significant percentage reduction in the on-disk - size of short character-string fields. + This significantly reduces the on-disk size of short + character-string fields. </para> </listitem> @@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. We keep a heap of the current best N tuples and sift-up new tuples into it as we scan the input. For M input tuples this means only about M*log(N) comparisons instead of M*log(M), not to mention a lot - less workspace when N is small --- avoiding spill-to-disk for large + less workspace when N is small — avoiding spill-to-disk for large M is actually the most attractive thing about it. </para> </listitem> @@ -595,7 +594,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <para> This provides full gettimeofday() resolution for the timestamps, which might be useful when attempting to do point-in-time recovery - --- previously it was not possible to specify the stop point with + — previously it was not possible to specify the stop point with sub-second resolution. </para> </listitem> @@ -626,7 +625,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces; a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created. Temp files are not stored in per-database - pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. + pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but in per-tablespace directories. </para> </listitem> @@ -1026,7 +1025,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </para> <para> - While it's (still) possible to perform these operations using ALTER + While it has long been possible to perform these operations using ALTER TABLE, users were often surprised that they couldn't say ALTER VIEW or ALTER SEQUENCE as appropriate. </para> @@ -1091,7 +1090,8 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <listitem> <para> - Make NOTIFY/LISTEN/UNLISTEN only accept simple relation names + Make NOTIFY/LISTEN/UNLISTEN only accept identifiers without a schema + qualifier (Bruce) </para> @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </para> <para> - These commands simplify resetting a database session to initial + These commands simplify resetting a database session to its initial state, and are particularly handy for connection-pooling software. </para> </listitem> @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <listitem> <para> Add a "uuid" data type similar to that defined in RFC 4122 (Gevik - Babakhani) + Babakhani, Neil) </para> </listitem> @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </para> <para> - This enables use of hash indexes and hash-based plans with + This allows hash indexes and hash-based plans to be used with the numeric datatype. </para> </listitem> @@ -1317,8 +1317,8 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <listitem> <para> - Allow leading and trailing - whitespace in the input to the boolean type (Neil) + Allow leading and trailing whitespace in the input to the boolean + type (Neil) </para> </listitem> @@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. <listitem> <para> - Implement RETURN QUERY for PL/PgSQL (Pavel Stehule, Tom) + Implement RETURN QUERY for PL/PgSQL (Pavel Stehule, Neil) </para> <para> @@ -2213,7 +2213,8 @@ do it for earlier branch release files. </para> <para> - Use configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate. + Use configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate. This takes + advantage of the new UUID builtin type. </para> </listitem> |