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Prevent non-key-field row updates from locking foreign key rows
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(AlvaroAacute;lvaro Herrera, Marti Raudsepp, Alexander Shulgin,
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Noah Misch and Andres Freund)
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This improves concurrency and reduces the probability of deadlocks.
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UPDATEs on non-key columns use the new SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock
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type, and foreign key checks use the new SELECT FOR KEY SHARE lock mode.
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Add cache of local locks (Jeff Janes)
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This speeds lock release at statement completion in transactions
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that hold many locks; it is particularly useful for pg_dump.
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Add SP-GiST support for range data types (Alexander Korotkov)
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Allow unlogged GiST indexes (Jeevan Chalke)
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Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Robert Haas)
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<title>Optimizer</title>
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Improve the ability to detect indexable prefixes in regular
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expressions (Tom Lane)
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Collect and use histograms of lower and upper bounds for range types
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(Alexander Korotkov)
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Reduce optimizer overhead by discarding plans with unneeded cheaper
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startup costs (Tom Lane)
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Improve optimizer cost estimation for index access (Tom Lane)
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<title>General Performance</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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Add COPY FREEZE option to avoid the overhead of later marking
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tuples as committed (Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis)
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Improve performance of NUMERIC calculations (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
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Improve performance of NUMERIC calculations (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
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Add COPY FREEZE option to avoid the overhead of later marking
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tuples as committed (Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis)
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</para>
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Improve memory usage for in-memory sorts (Jeff Janes)
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Improve memory usage for in-memory sorts (Jeff Janes)
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<title>Optimizer</title>
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<title>Monitoring</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<para>
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Reduce optimizer overhead by discarding plans with unneeded cheaper
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Add optional ability to checksum data pages and report corruption
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startup costs (Tom Lane)
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(Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith)
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</para>
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<para>
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The checksum option can be set during initdb.
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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Collect and use histograms of lower and upper bounds for range types
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Allow pg_terminate_backend() to terminate other backends with
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(Alexander Korotkov)
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the same role (Dan Farina)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, only superusers could terminate other sessions.
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</para>
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<para>
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<para>
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Improve the ability to detect indexable prefixes in regular
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Allow the statistics collector to operate properly in cases where
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expressions (Tom Lane)
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the system clock goes backwards (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously statistics collection would stop until the time again
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reached the previously-stored latest time.
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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Improve optimizer cost estimation for index access (Tom Lane)
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Add function to report the size of the GIN pending index insertion
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</para>
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list (Fujii Masao)
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<title>Indexes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Reduce use of heavyweight locking inside hash AM.
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</para>
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Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Robert Haas)
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</para>
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<para>
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Add SP-GiST support for range data types (Alexander Korotkov)
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</para>
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Allow unlogged GiST indexes (Jeevan Chalke)
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</para>
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Allow SP-GiST to support of the range adjacent operator (Alexander
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Korotkov)
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</para>
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<title>Locking</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Prevent non-key-field row updates from locking foreign key rows
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(AlvaroAacute;lvaro Herrera, Marti Raudsepp, Alexander Shulgin,
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Noah Misch and Andres Freund)
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</para>
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This improves concurrency and reduces the probability of deadlocks.
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The function is pgstatginindex() in pgstattuple.
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UPDATEs on non-key columns use the new SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock
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type, and foreign key checks use the new SELECT FOR KEY SHARE lock mode.
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</para>
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Add cache of local locks (Jeff Janes)
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</para>
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This speeds lock release at statement completion in transactions
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that hold many locks; it is particularly useful for pg_dump.
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</para>
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<title>Monitoring</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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the system clock goes backwards (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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The checksum option can be set during initdb.
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The function is pgstatginindex() in pgstattuple.
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Allow CREATE TABLE to succeed for a non-existent schema
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