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Copy-editing of release notes.
Remove a couple of items that were actually back-patched bug fixes. Add additional details to a couple of items which lacked a description. Improve attributions for a couple of items I was involved with. A few other miscellaneous corrections.
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Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
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lightweight lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
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fast-path lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
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Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned
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GiST) index access method (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Tom
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Lane, Robert Haas)
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Lane)
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Allow group commit to work effectively under heavy load (Peter
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Geoghegan, Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
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Change "unexpected EOF" message to <literal>DEBUG1</> level
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Change "unexpected EOF" message to <literal>DEBUG1</> level,
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except when there is an open transaction (Magnus Hagander)
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Report checkpoint timing information in <link
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linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</></link>
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(Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan)
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This only writes data to the socket, but does not wait a write
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to the remote disk.
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This waits for the remote server to acknowledge that it has received
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the data, but does not wait for it to be written to the remote disk.
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Provide more reliable operation during concurrent
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<acronym>DDL</acronym> (Robert Haas, Noah Misch)
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This eliminates "cache lookup failed" errors in many scenarios.
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Also, it is no longer possible to add relations to a schema which
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is being concurrently dropped, a scenario that formerly led to
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inconsistent system catalog contents.
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constraints (Peter Eisentraut)
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Disallow merging of <literal>ONLY</> and non-<literal>ONLY</>
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constraints in child tables (Nikhil Sontakke)
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Such merging would cause unpredictable behavior in grandchild
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Reduce need to rebuild tables and indexes for various <link
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operations (Noah Misch) DUPLICATE?
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operations (Noah Misch)
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Increasing the length constraint on a <type>varchar</> or
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<type>varbit</> column, or removing it altogether, no longer
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requires a table rewrite. Increasing the allowable precision of
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a <type>numeric</> constraint, or changing a column from constrained
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<type>numeric</> to unconstrained numeric, no longer requires a
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table rewrite. Table rewrites are also avoided in similar cases
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involving the <type>interval</>, <type>timestamp</>, and
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<type>timestamptz</> types.
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Add <literal>IF EXIST</> clause to <command>ALTER</command>
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Avoid having <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER
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TABLE</command></link> revalidate foreign key constraints in some
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cases where it is not necessary (Noah Misch)
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Add <literal>IF EXISTS</> clause to <command>ALTER</command>
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This also allows a table to be created whose schema matches a view.
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Tighten creation of tables in temporary schemas (Robert Haas,
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Previously, it was possible to create unlogged tables in temporary
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option for views (KaiGai Kohei, Robert Haas)
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Add a <link linkend="datatype-json"><type>JSON</type></link>
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data type (Robert Haas) AUTHOR?
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data type (Robert Haas)
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