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14 | 14 | <title>Overview</title>
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15 | 15 |
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16 | 16 | <para>
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17 |
| - NARRATIVE HERE. Major enhancements include: |
| 17 | + This release has been largely focused on performance improvements, though |
| 18 | + new SQL features are not lacking. Work also continues in the area of |
| 19 | + replication support. Major enhancements include: |
18 | 20 | </para>
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19 | 21 |
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20 | 22 | <itemizedlist>
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21 |
| - <listitem><para>MAJOR LIST HERE</para></listitem> |
| 23 | + |
22 | 24 | <!-- This list duplicates items below, but without authors or details-->
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23 | 25 |
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| 26 | + <listitem> |
| 27 | + <para> |
| 28 | + Allow queries to retrieve data only from indexes, avoiding heap |
| 29 | + access (<firstterm>index-only scans</>) |
| 30 | + </para> |
| 31 | + </listitem> |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | + <listitem> |
| 34 | + <para> |
| 35 | + Allow the planner to generate custom plans for specific parameter |
| 36 | + values even when using prepared statements |
| 37 | + </para> |
| 38 | + </listitem> |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + <listitem> |
| 41 | + <para> |
| 42 | + Improve the planner's ability to use nested loops with inner |
| 43 | + index scans |
| 44 | + </para> |
| 45 | + </listitem> |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + <listitem> |
| 48 | + <para> |
| 49 | + Allow streaming replication slaves to forward data to other slaves |
| 50 | + (<link linkend="cascading-replication"><firstterm>cascading |
| 51 | + replication</></link>) |
| 52 | + </para> |
| 53 | + </listitem> |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | + <listitem> |
| 56 | + <para> |
| 57 | + Add a <link |
| 58 | + linkend="app-pgreceivexlog"><application>pg_receivexlog</></link> |
| 59 | + tool to archive WAL file changes as they are written |
| 60 | + </para> |
| 61 | + </listitem> |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + <listitem> |
| 64 | + <para> |
| 65 | + Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned |
| 66 | + GiST) index access method |
| 67 | + </para> |
| 68 | + </listitem> |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + <listitem> |
| 71 | + <para> |
| 72 | + Add support for <link linkend="rangetypes">range data types</link> |
| 73 | + </para> |
| 74 | + </listitem> |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + <listitem> |
| 77 | + <para> |
| 78 | + Add a <link linkend="datatype-json"><type>JSON</type></link> |
| 79 | + data type |
| 80 | + </para> |
| 81 | + </listitem> |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | + <listitem> |
| 84 | + <para> |
| 85 | + Add a <link |
| 86 | + linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW"><literal>security_barrier</></link> |
| 87 | + option for views |
| 88 | + </para> |
| 89 | + </listitem> |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + <listitem> |
| 92 | + <para> |
| 93 | + Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a |
| 94 | + <link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link> |
| 95 | + </para> |
| 96 | + </listitem> |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | + <listitem> |
| 99 | + <para> |
| 100 | + Add a <link linkend="libpq-single-row-mode">single-row processing |
| 101 | + mode</link> to <application>libpq</> for better handling of large |
| 102 | + result sets |
| 103 | + </para> |
| 104 | + </listitem> |
| 105 | + |
24 | 106 | </itemizedlist>
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25 | 107 |
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26 | 108 | <para>
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2319 | 2401 | <listitem>
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2320 | 2402 | <para>
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2321 |
| - Allow connection strings to have the format of a <link |
2322 |
| - linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link> (Alexander |
2323 |
| - Shulgin) |
| 2403 | + Allow <application>libpq</> connection strings to have the format of a |
| 2404 | + <link linkend="libpq-connstring"><acronym>URI</acronym></link> |
| 2405 | + (Alexander Shulgin) |
2324 | 2406 | </para>
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2326 | 2408 | <para>
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