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! <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.34 2010/06/16
18:46:18 momjian Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="release-9-0">
<title>Release 9.0</title>
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! <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v 2.31 2010/06/14
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<sect1 id="release-9-0">
<title>Release 9.0</title>
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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.
</para>
</listitem>
--- 55,61 ----
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, including support for Python3.
</para>
</listitem>
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<title>PL/pgSQL Variables</title>
<itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<para>
Have PL/pgSQL throw an error if a variable name conflicts with a
--- 290,295 ----
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--- 332,363 ----
</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>
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--- 594,604 ----
<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>
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*** 624,629 ****
--- 650,661 ----
<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>
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*** 635,642 ****
</para>
<para>
! This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic
! and troubleshoot problems by source application.
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
<para>
! This allows DBAs to characterize database traffic
! and troubleshoot problems by source application.
</para>
</listitem>
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--- 678,689 ----
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>
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--- 691,701 ----
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>
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<application>psql</> <literal>\drds</> command shows these settings.
Backwards-compatible system views do not show this information.
The primary use of this feature is setting schema
! <link linkend="guc-search-path"><varname>search_path</varname></link>.
</para>
--- 747,753 ----
<application>psql</> <literal>\drds</> command shows these settings.
Backwards-compatible system views do not show this information.
The primary use of this feature is setting schema
! <link linkend="guc-search_path"><varname>search_path</varname></link>.
</para>
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</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.
</para>
<para>
--- 863,871 ----
</para>
<para>
! 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>
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--- 1841,1858 ----
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ PL/Perl subroutines are now given perl-visible names (Tim Bunce)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ PL/Perl subroutines are anonymous subrefs; this change adds entries
+ to the Perl symbol table for them, making profiling and code coverage
+ tools much more usable.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
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--- 2708,2727 ----
<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
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*** 2696,2714 ****
<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)
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</para>
<para>
! This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens.
</para>
</listitem>
--- 2805,2813 ----
</para>
<para>
! This filter dictionary removes accents from tokens, and
! makes full-text searches over multiple languages much
! easier.
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
<para>
! New functions and operators were also added.
</para>
</listitem>
--- 2833,2840 ----
</para>
<para>
! New functions and operators were also added. These improvements
! make HStore a full-functional key-value store embedded in PostgreSQL.
</para>
</listitem>
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