</para>
<para>
- This was already disabled by default in previous Postgres releases,
- and most modern OpenSSL and <acronym>TLS</acronym> versions no
- longer support it.
+ This was already disabled by default in previous
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> releases, and most modern
+ OpenSSL and <acronym>TLS</acronym> versions no longer support it.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- This was last used as the default in Postgres 7.3 (year 2002).
+ This was last used as the default in
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.3 (year 2002).
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
<function>EXTRACT(date)</function> now throws an error for units
- that are not part of the date data type.
+ that are not part of the <type>date</type> data type.
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Improve handling of regular expression back-references (Tom Lane)
+ Improve handling of regular expression <link
+ linkend="posix-escape-sequences">back-references</link> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<para>
Require <link linkend="runtime-config-custom">custom server
- variable</link> names to use only character which are valid for
+ variable</link> names to use only characters which are valid for
unquoted <acronym>SQL</acronym> identifiers (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Pass doubled quote marks in <xref linkend="ecpg"/>
+ Pass doubled quote marks in <link linkend="ecpg">ecpg</link>
<acronym>SQL</acronym> command strings literally (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is useful if only a small percentage of rows is checked on
- the inner side.
+ the inner side and is controlled by <xref
+ linkend="guc-enable-resultcache"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- The <link
+ <link
linkend="postgres-fdw"><application>postgres_fdw</application></link>
supports these type of scans if <literal>async_capable</literal>
is set.
<para>
This is controlled by server variable <xref
- linkend="guc-ssl-crl-dir"/> and libpq connection option sslcrldir.
- Previously only <acronym>CRL</acronym> files could be specified.
+ linkend="guc-ssl-crl-dir"/> and libpq connection option
+ <xref linkend='libpq-connect-sslcrldir'/>. Previously only
+ <acronym>CRL</acronym> files could be specified.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- By default, Postgres opens and fsyncs every data file
- at the start of crash recovery. This new setting, <xref
+ By default, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ opens and fsyncs every data file at the
+ start of crash recovery. This new setting, <xref
linkend="guc-recovery-init-sync-method"/><literal>=syncfs</literal>,
instead syncs each filesystem used by the database cluster.
This allows for faster recovery on systems with many database files.
</para>
<para>
- This is similar to how Unicode can be specified in literal string.
+ This is similar to how Unicode can be specified in literal strings.
</para>
</listitem>
The new syntax is <literal>SUBSTRING(text SIMILAR pattern ESCAPE
escapechar)</literal>. The previous standard syntax was
<literal>SUBSTRING(text FROM pattern FOR escapechar)</literal>,
- and is still supported by Postgres.
+ and is still supported by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Add <link
linkend="posix-escape-sequences"><literal>[[:word:]]</literal></link>
- as a character class to match \w (Tom Lane)
+ as a character class to match <literal>\w</literal> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>psql</application>'s \df and \do commands to
- specify function and operator argument types (Greg Sabino Mullane,
- Tom Lane)
+ Allow <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\df</literal>
+ and <literal>\do</literal> commands to specify function and
+ operator argument types (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow <application>psql</application>'s \dt and \di to show
- <acronym>TOAST</acronym> tables and their indexes (Justin Pryzby)
+ Allow <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\dt</literal>
+ and <literal>\di</literal> to show <acronym>TOAST</acronym>
+ tables and their indexes (Justin Pryzby)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Add <application>psql</application> command \dX to list extended
- statistics objects (Tatsuro Yamada)
+ Add <application>psql</application> command <literal>\dX</literal>
+ to list extended statistics objects (Tatsuro Yamada)
</para>
</listitem>
-->
<para>
- Fix <application>psql</application>'s \dT to understand array
- syntax and backend grammar aliases, like "int" for "integer"
- (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
+ Fix <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\dT</literal> to
+ understand array syntax and backend grammar aliases, like "int"
+ for "integer" (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
When editing the previous query or a file with
- <application>psql</application>'s \e, or using \ef and \ev, ignore
- the contents if the editor exits without saving (Laurenz Albe)
+ <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\e</literal>, or using
+ <literal>\ef</literal> and <literal>\ev</literal>, ignore the
+ contents if the editor exits without saving (Laurenz Albe)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Improve <application>psql</application>'s handling of \connect
- with <option>-reuse-previous</option> (Tom Lane)
+ Improve <application>psql</application>'s handling of
+ <literal>\connect</literal> with <option>-reuse-previous</option>
+ (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Stop <link
linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>
from creating <filename>analyze_new_cluster</filename> script
- (Michael Paquier)
+ (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
-->
<para>
- Allow <function>pgstattuple_approx()</function> to report on
- <acronym>TOAST</acronym> tables (Peter Eisentraut)
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="pgstattuple"><function>pgstattuple_approx()</function></link>
+ to report on <acronym>TOAST</acronym> tables (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>