Copy-editing of release notes.

Remove a couple of items that were actually back-patched bug fixes.
Add additional details to a couple of items which lacked a description.
Improve attributions for a couple of items I was involved with.
A few other miscellaneous corrections.
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Robert Haas 2012-06-12 09:51:48 -04:00
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<listitem>
<para>
Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
lightweight lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
fast-path lock mechanism (Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Add the <link linkend="SPGiST">SP-GiST</link> (Space-Partitioned
GiST) index access method (Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Tom
Lane, Robert Haas)
Lane)
</para>
<para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Allow group commit to work effectively under heavy load (Peter
Geoghegan, Simon Riggs)
Geoghegan, Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
@ -870,8 +870,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Change "unexpected EOF" message to <literal>DEBUG1</> level
(Magnus Hagander)
Change "unexpected EOF" message to <literal>DEBUG1</> level,
except when there is an open transaction (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
<para>
Report checkpoint timing information in <link
linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</></link>
(Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas)
(Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
<para>
This only writes data to the socket, but does not wait a write
to the remote disk.
This waits for the remote server to acknowledge that it has received
the data, but does not wait for it to be written to the remote disk.
</para>
</listitem>
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Provide more reliable operation during concurrent
<acronym>DDL</acronym> (Robert Haas, Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
This eliminates "cache lookup failed" errors in many scenarios.
Also, it is no longer possible to add relations to a schema which
is being concurrently dropped, a scenario that formerly led to
inconsistent system catalog contents.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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constraints (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Disallow merging of <literal>ONLY</> and non-<literal>ONLY</>
constraints in child tables (Nikhil Sontakke)
</para>
<para>
Such merging would cause unpredictable behavior in grandchild
tables.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
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<para>
Reduce need to rebuild tables and indexes for various <link
linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER TABLE</command></link>
operations (Noah Misch) DUPLICATE?
operations (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Increasing the length constraint on a <type>varchar</> or
<type>varbit</> column, or removing it altogether, no longer
requires a table rewrite. Increasing the allowable precision of
a <type>numeric</> constraint, or changing a column from constrained
<type>numeric</> to unconstrained numeric, no longer requires a
table rewrite. Table rewrites are also avoided in similar cases
involving the <type>interval</>, <type>timestamp</>, and
<type>timestamptz</> types.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <literal>IF EXIST</> clause to <command>ALTER</command>
Avoid having <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTABLE"><command>ALTER
TABLE</command></link> revalidate foreign key constraints in some
cases where it is not necessary (Noah Misch)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <literal>IF EXISTS</> clause to <command>ALTER</command>
commands (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
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This also allows a table to be created whose schema matches a view.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tighten creation of tables in temporary schemas (Robert Haas,
Amit Khandekar)
</para>
<para>
Previously, it was possible to create unlogged tables in temporary
schemas, and temporary tables in the temporary schemas of other
sessions.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
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<para>
Add a <link
linkend="SQL-CREATEVIEW"><literal>security_barrier</></link>
option for views (KaiGai Kohei)
option for views (KaiGai Kohei, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Add a <link linkend="datatype-json"><type>JSON</type></link>
data type (Robert Haas) AUTHOR?
data type (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>