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Make a cut at a major-features list for 9.2.
This is open to debate of course, but it's past time we had *something* here.
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<title>Overview</title>
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NARRATIVE HERE. Major enhancements include:
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This release has been largely focused on performance improvements, though
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new SQL features are not lacking. Work also continues in the area of
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replication support. Major enhancements include:
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<listitem><para>MAJOR LIST HERE</para></listitem>
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Allow queries to retrieve data only from indexes, avoiding heap
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access (<firstterm>index-only scans</>)
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</para>
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Allow the planner to generate custom plans for specific parameter
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values even when using prepared statements
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Improve the planner's ability to use nested loops with inner
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index scans
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Allow streaming replication slaves to forward data to other slaves
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(<link linkend="cascading-replication"><firstterm>cascading
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replication</></link>)
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Add a <link
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linkend="app-pgreceivexlog"><application>pg_receivexlog</></link>
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tool to archive WAL file changes as they are written
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Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned
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GiST) index access method
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Add support for <link linkend="rangetypes">range data types</link>
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Add a <link linkend="datatype-json"><type>JSON</type></link>
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data type
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Add a <link
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linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW"><literal>security_barrier</></link>
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option for views
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Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a
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<link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link>
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Add a <link linkend="libpq-single-row-mode">single-row processing
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mode</link> to <application>libpq</> for better handling of large
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result sets
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Allow connection strings to have the format of a <link
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Shulgin)
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Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a
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<link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link>
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(Alexander Shulgin)
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