diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml index 833753aedeb..717a4c47f39 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ ALTER TABLE name RESET ( attribute_option [, ... ] ) - This form sets or resets attribute-level options. Currently, the only - define attribute-level options are n_distinct and + This form sets or resets per-attribute options. Currently, the only + defined per-attribute options are n_distinct and n_distinct_inherited, which override the - number-of-distinct-values estimate made by subsequent + number-of-distinct-values estimates made by subsequent operations. n_distinct affects the statistics for the table itself, while n_distinct_inherited affects the statistics - gathered for the table and its inheritance children. When set to a + gathered for the table plus its inheritance children. When set to a positive value, ANALYZE will assume that the column contains exactly the specified number of distinct nonnull values. When set to a negative value, which must be greater diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml index 6d29ddd1e93..d1f081fa830 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ - + + Release 9.0 Release date - 2010-??-?? + 2010-09-20 - CURRENT AS OF 2010-08-24 - Overview @@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ SCHEMA supports mass permissions changes on existing objects, while ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES allows control of privileges for objects created in - the future. Large objects (BLOBs) now support privilege management as + the future. Large objects (BLOBs) now support permissions management as well. @@ -189,9 +188,9 @@ Version 9.0 contains a number of changes that selectively break backwards compatibility in order to support new features and code quality - improvements. Also, users who make extensive use of PL/pgSQL, - Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR), and Warm Standby should test their - solutions because of slight user-visible changes in these areas. + improvements. In particular, users who make extensive use of PL/pgSQL, + Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR), or Warm Standby should test their + applications because of slight user-visible changes in those areas. Observe the following incompatibilities: @@ -751,7 +750,7 @@ - Allow setting of distinct statistics using ALTER TABLE (Robert Haas) @@ -890,7 +889,7 @@ linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table">pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters() and pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters() to allow resetting the statistics counters for individual - tables and indexes (Magnus Hagander) + tables and functions (Magnus Hagander) @@ -913,7 +912,7 @@ Previously only per-database and per-role settings were possible, not combinations. All role and database settings are now stored - in the new pg_db_role_setting system table. A new + in the new pg_db_role_setting system catalog. A new psql command \drds shows these settings. The legacy system views pg_roles, pg_shadow, and pg_user @@ -990,7 +989,8 @@ known to the server. This allows the server to correctly check that superuser-only parameters are only set by superusers. Previously, the SET would be allowed and then ignored at session start, - making superuser-only custom parameters practically useless. + making superuser-only custom parameters much less useful than they + should be. @@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ - Add Unicode surrogate pair (dual 16-bit) support to + Support Unicode surrogate pairs (dual 16-bit representation) in U& strings and identifiers (Peter Eisentraut) @@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ - Add support for copying all attributes in CREATE + Add a shortcut for copying all properties in CREATE TABLE ... LIKE commands (Itagaki Takahiro) @@ -1659,23 +1659,6 @@ - - - Support locale-specific regular expression - processing with UTF-8 server encoding (Tom Lane) - - - - Locale-specific regular expression functionality includes - case-insensitive matching and locale-specific character classes. - Previously, these features only worked correctly for - non-ASCII characters when using a single-byte server - encoding (such as LATIN1). They will still misbehave in multi-byte - encodings other than UTF-8. - - - Allow function calls to supply parameter names and match them to named @@ -1689,6 +1672,23 @@ + + + Support locale-specific regular expression + processing with UTF-8 server encoding (Tom Lane) + + + + Locale-specific regular expression functionality includes + case-insensitive matching and locale-specific character classes. + Previously, these features worked correctly for non-ASCII + characters only if the database used a single-byte server encoding (such + as LATIN1). They will still misbehave in multi-byte encodings other + than UTF-8. + + + Add support for scientific notation in -if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then +if TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.col1 = ... then This will now actually work as expected. @@ -2235,9 +2235,9 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then - Add vacuumdb - @@ -2573,7 +2573,8 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then - Load SSL certificate chains (Tom Lane) + Load all SSL certificates given in the client certificate file + (Tom Lane) @@ -2601,16 +2602,15 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then Add the DESCRIBE - [OUTPUT] statement to ecpg + [ OUTPUT ] statement to ecpg (Boszormenyi Zoltan) - Add an ecpg function ECPGtransactionStatus to return the - current transaction status (Bernd Helmle) + Add an ECPGtransactionStatus + function to return the current transaction status (Bernd Helmle) @@ -2707,7 +2707,7 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then - Thread-safe builds can be disabled with configure @@ -2747,7 +2747,7 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then These are similar to the existing all, install, - and installcheck targets, but they also build + and installcheck targets, but they also build the HTML documentation, build and test contrib, and test server-side languages and ecpg. @@ -2763,8 +2763,8 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then - Add Makefile rules to build documentation as a single HTML - file or as a single plain-text file + Add Makefile rules to build the PostgreSQL documentation + as a single HTML file or as a single plain-text file (Peter Eisentraut, Bruce Momjian) @@ -3127,7 +3127,7 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then Existing calls will still work for the moment, but can be expected to - break in 9.1 or later if not converted. + break in 9.1 or later if not converted to the new style. @@ -3170,13 +3170,6 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' AND NEW.col1 = ... then - - - Allow the calling of parser hooks from SPI and cached - plans (Tom Lane) - - - Add a ProcessUtility hook so loadable modules can control utility