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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml index 5bca6f7896a..980d59870c9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.34 2010/06/16 18:46:18 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.35 2010/06/24 18:33:05 rhaas Exp $ --> <sect1 id="release-9-0"> <title>Release 9.0</title> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The <link linkend="SQL-DO"><command>DO</></link> statement permits ad-hoc or anonymous code blocks. Functions can now be called using named parameters. PL/pgSQL is now installed by default, and PL/Perl and PL/Python - have been enhanced in several ways. + have been enhanced in several ways, including support for Python3. </para> </listitem> @@ -290,7 +290,6 @@ <title>PL/pgSQL Variables</title> <itemizedlist> - <listitem> <para> Have PL/pgSQL throw an error if a variable name conflicts with a @@ -333,10 +332,32 @@ </itemizedlist> </sect3> + + <sect3> + <title>Other Incompatibilities</title> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Remove support for platforms that don't have a working 64-bit + integer data types (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + It is believed all supported platforms have working 64-bit integer + data types. + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </sect3> </sect2> <sect2> <title>Changes</title> + <para> + Version 9.0 has an unprecedented number of new major features, + and over 200 enhancements, improvements, new commands, + new functions, and other changes. + </para> <sect3> <title>Server</title> @@ -573,6 +594,11 @@ <sect4> <title>Authentication</title> + <para> + Version 9.0 further extends PostgreSQL's support for multiple + authentication methods, including RADIUS and improved LDAP support. + </para> + <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -624,6 +650,12 @@ <sect4> <title>Monitoring</title> + <para> + With increased use of PostgreSQL in high-end production systems, + users need increased monitoring. PostgresSQL 9.0 continues to add + more ways to monitor PostgreSQL applications. + </para> + <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -635,8 +667,8 @@ </para> <para> - This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic - and troubleshoot problems by source application. + This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic + and troubleshoot problems by source application. </para> </listitem> @@ -646,6 +678,12 @@ linkend="guc-log-line-prefix"><varname>log_line_prefix</></link> (Guillaume Smet) </para> + + <para> + This allows users to compile statistics on errors and messages + by type. + </para> + </listitem> <listitem> @@ -653,6 +691,11 @@ Write to the Windows event log in <acronym>UTF16</> encoding (Itagaki Takahiro) </para> + + <para> + Now there is true multi-lingual support for PostgreSQL log messages + on Windows. + </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -820,9 +863,9 @@ </para> <para> - This allows operations that do not return a result, like - <command>SELECT INTO</>, to return a count of the number of rows - processed. + For drivers which support this feature, this saves an entire + round-trip to the client, allowing result counts and pagination + to be calculated without a second <command>COUNT</command> query. </para> <para> @@ -1263,7 +1306,10 @@ </para> <para> - DETAILS? + This feature supports GiST indexing of point operations on polygons, + circles, and other points, such as "point is in polygon". Previously + indexing only worked for bounding boxes. This should make many + PostGIS queries faster. </para> </listitem> @@ -2653,6 +2699,20 @@ <title>Binary Upgrade Support</title> <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link> + to support in-place upgrades (Bruce) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids the requirement of dumping/reloading the database when + upgrading to a new major release of PostgreSQL and speeds up offline + upgrades by orders of magnitude. It supports upgrades to 9.0 + from PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para> Add support for preservation of all <link @@ -2696,19 +2756,6 @@ <listitem> <para> - Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><filename>/contrib/pg_upgrade</></link> - to support in-place upgrades (Bruce) - </para> - - <para> - This avoids the requirement of dumping/reloading the database when - upgrading to a new major release of PostgreSQL. It supports upgrades - from PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> Add multi-threaded option (<option>-j</>) to <link linkend="pgbench"><filename>/contrib/pgbench</></link> (Itagaki Takahiro) @@ -2749,7 +2796,9 @@ </para> <para> - This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens. + This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens, and + makes full-text searches over multiple languages much + easier. </para> </listitem> @@ -2775,7 +2824,8 @@ </para> <para> - New functions and operators were also added. + New functions and operators were also added. These improvements + make HStore a full-functional key-value store embedded in PostgreSQL. </para> </listitem> |