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This release adds many improvements to commands and database
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- facilities that were requested by users. Rather than adding a
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- few new features, this release makes many features from previous
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- releases easier to use. For example, it is now much easier to
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- create standby point-in-time-recovery (PITR) servers . Many
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+ facilities that were requested by users. Rather than adding
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+ a few new features, this release makes many features from
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+ previous releases easier to use. For example, there are now
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+ additional controls for continuous archiving . Many
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performance bottlenecks have been eliminated, allowing more
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- functionality to be enabled by default. Various additions will
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- make porting from other databases easier. The changes in this
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- release continue the <productname>PostgreSQL</> tradition of
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- being not only the most advanced open source database, but also
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- the easiest to use.
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+ functionality to be enabled by default. Various additions
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+ will make porting from other databases easier. The changes
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+ in this release continue the <productname>PostgreSQL</>
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+ tradition of being not only the most advanced open source
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+ database, but also the easiest to use.
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- Allow a forced switch to a new xlog file (Simon Riggs , Tom)
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+ Allow a forced switch to a new xlog file (Simon, Tom)
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- This is valuable for keeping <acronym>PITR</> standby
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- servers in sync with the master. xlog file switching also
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- happens automatically during <function>pg_stop_backup()</>.
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- This ensures that <acronym>PITR</> servers have all xlog
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+ This is valuable for keeping continuous archiving servers
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+ in sync with the master. xlog file switching also happens
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+ automatically during <function>pg_stop_backup()</>. This
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+ ensures that continuous archiving servers have all xlog
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files needed for recovery.
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- Add <acronym>WAL</> informational functions (Simon Riggs )
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+ Add <acronym>WAL</> informational functions (Simon)
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Allow <acronym>WAL</> replay to be restored quicker in case
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- of a crash (Simon Riggs )
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+ of a crash (Simon)
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The server now does periodic checkpoints during <acronym>WAL</>
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recovery, so if there is a crash, future <acronym>WAL</>
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recovery is shortened. This also eliminates the need for
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- <acronym>PITR</> standby servers to replay the entire log
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+ continuous archive servers to replay the entire log since the
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+ base backup if they crash.
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- This enforces a maximum delay for <acronym>PITR</> standby
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