2024-03-04 [2af07e2f7] Fix search_path to a safe value during maintenance opera
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change functions to use a safe <xref linkend="guc-search-path"/> during maintenance operations (Jeff Davis)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This prevents maintenance operations (<command>ANALYZE</command>, <command>CLUSTER</command>, <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW</command>, <command>REINDEX</command>, or <command>VACUUM</command>) from performing unsafe access. Functions used by expression indexes and
-materialized views that need to reference non-default schemas must specify a search path during function creation.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change functions to use a safe <xref linkend="guc-search-path"/>
+ during maintenance operations (Jeff Davis)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This prevents maintenance operations (<command>ANALYZE</command>,
+ <command>CLUSTER</command>, <command>REFRESH
+ MATERIALIZED VIEW</command>, <command>REINDEX</command>,
+ or <command>VACUUM</command>) from performing unsafe access.
+ Functions used by expression indexes and materialized views that
+ need to reference non-default schemas must specify a search path
+ during function creation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-28 [617f9b7d4] Tighten unit parsing in internal values
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Restrict <literal>ago</literal> to only appear at the end in <type>interval</type> values (Joseph Koshakow)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Restrict <literal>ago</literal> to only appear at the end in
+ <type>interval</type> values (Joseph Koshakow)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Also, prevent empty interval units from appearing multiple times.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ Also, prevent empty interval units from appearing multiple times.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-05 [f691f5b80] Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove server variable old_snapshot_threshold (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Remove server variable old_snapshot_threshold (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This variable allowed vacuum to remove rows that potentially could be still visible to running transactions, causing "snapshot too old" errors later if accessed. This feature
-might be re-added to <application>PostgreSQL</application> later if an improved implementation is found.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This variable allowed vacuum to remove rows that potentially could
+ be still visible to running transactions, causing "snapshot too
+ old" errors later if accessed. This feature might be re-added
+ to <application>PostgreSQL</application> later if an improved
+ implementation is found.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-13 [a0363ab7a] Fix privilege check for SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change <link linkend="sql-set-session-authorization"><command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command></link> handling of the initial session user's superuser status (Joseph Koshakow)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change <link linkend="sql-set-session-authorization"><command>SET
+ SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command></link> handling of the initial
+ session user's superuser status (Joseph Koshakow)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new behavior is based on the session user's superuser status at the time the <command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command> command is issued, rather than their superuser status at connection time.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new behavior is based on the session user's superuser status at
+ the time the <command>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</command> command
+ is issued, rather than their superuser status at connection time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-17 [884eee5bf] Remove db_user_namespace.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove feature which simulated per-database users (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Remove feature which simulated per-database users (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The feature, <literal>db_user_namespace</literal>, was rarely used.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The feature, <literal>db_user_namespace</literal>, was rarely used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-14 [d0c28601e] Remove wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough on Windows.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <xref linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"/> value <literal>fsync_writethrough</literal> on <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <xref linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"/> value
+ <literal>fsync_writethrough</literal> on <systemitem
+ class="osname">Windows</systemitem> (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This value was the same as <literal>fsync</literal> on <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This value was the same as <literal>fsync</literal> on <systemitem
+ class="osname">Windows</systemitem>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-24 [344afc776] modify segno. for pg_walfile_name() and pg_walfile_name_
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change file boundary handling of two <acronym>WAL</acronym> file name functions (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund, Bruce Momjian)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change file boundary handling of two <acronym>WAL</acronym> file
+ name functions (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund, Bruce Momjian)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The functions <link linkend="functions-admin-backup-table"><function>pg_walfile_name()</function></link> and <function>pg_walfile_name_offset()</function> used to report the previous <acronym>LSN</acronym> segment number when the <acronym>LSN</acronym> was on a file segment boundary; it now returns the <acronym>LSN</acronym> segment.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The functions <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-backup-table"><function>pg_walfile_name()</function></link>
+ and <function>pg_walfile_name_offset()</function> used to report
+ the previous <acronym>LSN</acronym> segment number when the
+ <acronym>LSN</acronym> was on a file segment boundary; it now
+ returns the <acronym>LSN</acronym> segment.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-11 [c7a3e6b46] Remove trace_recovery_messages
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove server variable <literal>trace_recovery_messages</literal> since it is no longer needed (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove server variable <literal>trace_recovery_messages</literal>
+ since it is no longer needed (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-16 [78806a950] Remove incorrect field from information schema
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <link linkend="information-schema">information schema</link> column <structname>element_types</structname>.<structfield>domain_default</structfield> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <link
+ linkend="information-schema">information schema</link> column
+ <structname>element_types</structname>.<structfield>domain_default</structfield>
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-26 [15d5d7405] pgrowlocks: change lock mode output labels for consiste
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change <application><xref linkend="pgrowlocks"/></application> lock mode output labels (Bruce Momjian)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change <application><xref linkend="pgrowlocks"/></application>
+ lock mode output labels (Bruce Momjian)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-27 [74604a37f] Remove buffers_backend and buffers_backend_fsync from pg
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <structfield>buffers_backend</structfield> and <structfield>buffers_backend_fsync</structfield> from <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname></link> (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <structfield>buffers_backend</structfield> and
+ <structfield>buffers_backend_fsync</structfield> from <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname></link>
+ (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
-<para>
-These fields are considered redundant to similar columns in <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-io-view"><structname>pg_stat_io</structname></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ These fields are considered redundant to similar columns in <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-io-view"><structname>pg_stat_io</structname></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-19 [13d00729d] Rename I/O timing statistics columns to shared_blk_{read
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Rename I/O block read/write timing statistics columns of <application><xref linkend="pgstatstatements"/></application> (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename I/O block read/write timing statistics columns of
+ <application><xref linkend="pgstatstatements"/></application>
+ (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This renames <structfield>blk_read_time</structfield> to <structfield>shared_blk_read_time</structfield>, and <structfield>blk_write_time</structfield> to <structfield>shared_blk_write_time</structfield>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This renames <structfield>blk_read_time</structfield>
+ to <structfield>shared_blk_read_time</structfield>,
+ and <structfield>blk_write_time</structfield> to
+ <structfield>shared_blk_write_time</structfield>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-17 [012460ee9] Make stxstattarget nullable
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change <link linkend="catalog-pg-attribute"><structname>pg_attribute</structname>.<structfield>attstattarget</structfield></link> and <structname>pg_attribute</structname>.<structfield>stxstattarget</structfield> to represent the default statistics target as <literal>NULL</literal> (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change <link
+ linkend="catalog-pg-attribute"><structname>pg_attribute</structname>.<structfield>attstattarget</structfield></link>
+ and
+ <structname>pg_attribute</structname>.<structfield>stxstattarget</structfield>
+ to represent the default statistics target as <literal>NULL</literal>
+ (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-06-14 [f1affb670] Reintroduce dead tuple counter in pg_stat_progress_vacuu
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change <link linkend="vacuum-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_vacuum</structname></link> columns <structfield>max_dead_tuples</structfield> to <structfield>max_dead_tuple_bytes</structfield>, rename <structfield>num_dead_tuples</structfield> to <structfield>num_dead_item_ids</structfield>, and add <structfield>dead_tuple_bytes</structfield> (Masahiko Sawada)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change <link
+ linkend="vacuum-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_vacuum</structname></link>
+ columns <structfield>max_dead_tuples</structfield>
+ to <structfield>max_dead_tuple_bytes</structfield>,
+ rename <structfield>num_dead_tuples</structfield> to
+ <structfield>num_dead_item_ids</structfield>, and add
+ <structfield>dead_tuple_bytes</structfield> (Masahiko Sawada)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-28 [bcdfa5f2e] Rename SLRU elements in view pg_stat_slru
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Rename <acronym>SLRU</acronym> columns in system view <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-slru-view"><structname>pg_stat_slru</structname></link> (Alvaro Herrera)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename <acronym>SLRU</acronym> columns in system view <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-slru-view"><structname>pg_stat_slru</structname></link>
+ (Alvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The column names accepted by <link linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_slru()</function></link> are also changed.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The column names accepted by <link
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_slru()</function></link>
+ are also changed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2023-11-17 [f7816aec2] Extract column statistics from CTE references, if possib
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the optimizer to improve <acronym>CTE</acronym> plans by considering the statistics of columns referenced in earlier row output clauses (Jian Guo, Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the optimizer to improve <acronym>CTE</acronym> plans by
+ considering the statistics of columns referenced in earlier row
+ output clauses (Jian Guo, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-26 [a65724dfa] Propagate pathkeys from CTEs up to the outer query.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the optimizer to improve <acronym>CTE</acronym> plans by considering the sort order of columns referenced in earlier row output clauses (Richard Guo)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the optimizer to improve <acronym>CTE</acronym> plans by
+ considering the sort order of columns referenced in earlier row
+ output clauses (Richard Guo)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-12 [3af704098] Fix IS [NOT] NULL qual optimization for inheritance tabl
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve optimization of <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> and <literal>IS NULL</literal> query restrictions (David Rowley, Richard Guo, Andy Fan)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimization of <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> and
+ <literal>IS NULL</literal> query restrictions (David Rowley,
+ Richard Guo, Andy Fan)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Remove <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> query restrictions on <literal>NOT NULL</literal> columns and eliminate scans on <literal>NOT NULL</literal> columns if <literal>IS NULL</literal> is specified.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal> query restrictions on
+ <literal>NOT NULL</literal> columns and eliminate scans on
+ <literal>NOT NULL</literal> columns if <literal>IS NULL</literal>
+ is specified.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-04 [07c36c133] Support partition pruning on boolcol IS [NOT] UNKNOWN
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow partition pruning on boolean columns on <literal>IS [NOT] UNKNOWN</literal> conditionals (David Rowley)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow partition pruning on boolean columns on <literal>IS [NOT]
+ UNKNOWN</literal> conditionals (David Rowley)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-20 [075df6b20] Add planner support functions for range operators <@ and
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve optimization of range values when using containment operators <@ and @> (Kim Johan Andersson, Jian He)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimization of range values when using containment
+ operators <@ and @> (Kim Johan Andersson, Jian He)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-15 [9f1337639] Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow correlated <literal>IN</literal> subqueries to be transformed into joins (Andy Fan, Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow correlated <literal>IN</literal> subqueries to be transformed
+ into joins (Andy Fan, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-05 [a8a968a82] Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve optimization of the <literal>LIMIT</literal> clause on partitioned tables, inheritance parents, and <literal>UNION ALL</literal> queries (Andy Fan, David Rowley)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimization of the <literal>LIMIT</literal> clause
+ on partitioned tables, inheritance parents, and <literal>UNION
+ ALL</literal> queries (Andy Fan, David Rowley)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-14 [e08d74ca1] Allow plan nodes with initPlans to be considered paralle
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow query nodes to be run in parallel in more cases (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ Allow query nodes to be run in parallel in more cases (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-21 [0452b461b] Explore alternative orderings of group-by pathkeys durin
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <literal>GROUP BY</literal> columns to be internally ordered to match <literal>ORDER BY</literal> (Andrei Lepikhov, Teodor Sigaev)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <literal>GROUP BY</literal> columns to be internally
+ ordered to match <literal>ORDER BY</literal> (Andrei Lepikhov,
+ Teodor Sigaev)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This can be disabled using server variable enable_group_by_reordering. MISSING
-DOCS
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This can be disabled using server variable
+ enable_group_by_reordering. MISSING DOCS
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-25 [66c0185a3] Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently impleme
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <literal>UNION</literal> (without <literal>ALL</literal>) to use MergeAppend (David Rowley)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <literal>UNION</literal> (without <literal>ALL</literal>)
+ to use MergeAppend (David Rowley)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-01 [9d1a5354f] Fix costing bug in MergeAppend
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Fix MergeAppend plans to more accurately compute the number of rows that need to be sorted (Alexander Kuzmenkov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix MergeAppend plans to more accurately compute the number of
+ rows that need to be sorted (Alexander Kuzmenkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-04 [625d5b3ca] Allow Incremental Sorts on GiST and SP-GiST indexes
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="gist">GiST</link> and <link linkend="spgist">SP-GiST</link> indexes to be part of incremental sorts (Miroslav Bendik)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="gist">GiST</link> and <link
+ linkend="spgist">SP-GiST</link> indexes to be part of incremental
+ sorts (Miroslav Bendik)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is particularly useful for <literal>ORDER BY</literal> clauses where the first column has a GiST and SP-GiST index, and other columns do not.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is particularly useful for <literal>ORDER BY</literal>
+ clauses where the first column has a GiST and SP-GiST index,
+ and other columns do not.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-27 [bc3c8db8a] Display length and bounds histograms in pg_stats
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add columns to <link linkend="view-pg-stats"><structname>pg_stats</structname></link> to report range-type histogram information (Egor Rogov, Soumyadeep Chakraborty)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add columns to <link
+ linkend="view-pg-stats"><structname>pg_stats</structname></link>
+ to report range-type histogram information (Egor Rogov, Soumyadeep
+ Chakraborty)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-04-06 [5bf748b86] Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="btree">btree</link> indexes to more efficiently find a set of values, such as those supplied by <literal>IN</literal> clauses using constants (Peter Geoghegan, Matthias van de Meent)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="btree">btree</link> indexes to more
+ efficiently find a set of values, such as those supplied by
+ <literal>IN</literal> clauses using constants (Peter Geoghegan,
+ Matthias van de Meent)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-08 [b43757171] Allow parallel CREATE INDEX for BRIN indexes
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="brin"><acronym>BRIN</acronym></link> indexes to be created using parallel workers (Tomas Vondra, Matthias van de Meent)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="brin"><acronym>BRIN</acronym></link> indexes
+ to be created using parallel workers (Tomas Vondra, Matthias van
+ de Meent)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-04-03 [6dbb49026] Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow vacuum to more efficiently remove and freeze tuples (Melanie Plageman, Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow vacuum to more efficiently remove and freeze tuples (Melanie
+ Plageman, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
-<para>
-<acronym>WAL</acronym> traffic caused by vacuum is also more compact.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>WAL</acronym> traffic caused by vacuum is also more
+ compact.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-03 [6dbb49026] Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow vacuum to more efficiently store tuple references (Masahiko Sawada, John Naylor)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow vacuum to more efficiently store tuple references (Masahiko
+ Sawada, John Naylor)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Additionally, vacuum is no longer silently limited to one gigabyte of memory when <xref linkend="guc-maintenance-work-mem"/> or <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-work-mem"/> are higher.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, vacuum is no longer silently limited to one gigabyte
+ of memory when <xref linkend="guc-maintenance-work-mem"/> or <xref
+ linkend="guc-autovacuum-work-mem"/> are higher.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-18 [c120550ed] Optimize vacuuming of relations with no indexes.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Optimize vacuuming of relations with no indexes (Melanie Plageman)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ Optimize vacuuming of relations with no indexes (Melanie Plageman)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-06 [98f320eb2] Increase default vacuum_buffer_usage_limit to 2MB.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Increase default <xref linkend="guc-vacuum-buffer-usage-limit"/> to 2MB (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Increase default <xref linkend="guc-vacuum-buffer-usage-limit"/>
+ to 2MB (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-26 [d365ae705] Optimize roles_is_member_of() with a Bloom filter.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve performance when checking roles with many memberships (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve performance when checking roles with many memberships
+ (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-25 [71e4cc6b8] Optimize WAL insertion lock acquisition and release with
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve performance of heavily-contended <acronym>WAL</acronym> writes (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve performance of heavily-contended <acronym>WAL</acronym>
+ writes (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-07 [c4ab7da60] Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve performance when transferring large blocks of data to a client (Melih Mutlu)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve performance when transferring large blocks of data to a
+ client (Melih Mutlu)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-08 [041b96802] Use streaming I/O in ANALYZE.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the grouping of file system reads with the new system variable <xref linkend="guc-io-combine-limit"/> (Thomas Munro, Andres Freund, Melanie Plageman, Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the grouping of file system reads with the new system variable
+ <xref linkend="guc-io-combine-limit"/> (Thomas Munro, Andres Freund,
+ Melanie Plageman, Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-03-14 [e820db5b5] Improve documentation for pg_stat_checkpointer fields
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Create system view <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-checkpointer-view"><structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname></link> (Bharath Rupireddy, Anton A. Melnikov, Alexander Korotkov)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Create system view <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-checkpointer-view"><structname>pg_stat_checkpointer</structname></link>
+ (Bharath Rupireddy, Anton A. Melnikov, Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Relevant columns have been removed from <link linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname></link> and added to this new system view.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Relevant columns have been removed from <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view"><structname>pg_stat_bgwriter</structname></link>
+ and added to this new system view.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-14 [e5cca6288] Add support for pg_stat_reset_slru without argument
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve control over resetting statistics (Atsushi Torikoshi, Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve control over resetting statistics (Atsushi Torikoshi,
+ Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_shared()</function></link> (with no arguments) and pg_stat_reset_shared(<literal>NULL</literal>) to reset all shared statistics.
-Allow pg_stat_reset_shared('slru') and <link linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_slru()</function></link> (with no arguments) to reset <acronym>SLRU</acronym> statistics, which was already possible with pg_stat_reset_slru(NULL).
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_shared()</function></link>
+ (with no arguments) and
+ pg_stat_reset_shared(<literal>NULL</literal>) to reset all
+ shared statistics. Allow pg_stat_reset_shared('slru') and <link
+ linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table"><function>pg_stat_reset_slru()</function></link>
+ (with no arguments) to reset <acronym>SLRU</acronym> statistics,
+ which was already possible with pg_stat_reset_slru(NULL).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [1d35f705e] Add more LOG messages when starting and ending recovery
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add log messages related to <acronym>WAL</acronym> recovery from backup (Andres Freund)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add log messages related to <acronym>WAL</acronym> recovery from
+ backup (Andres Freund)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-26 [e48b19c5d] Generate new LOG for "trust" connections under log_conne
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <xref linkend="guc-log-connections"/> log line for <literal>trust</literal> connections (Jacob Champion)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <xref linkend="guc-log-connections"/> log line for
+ <literal>trust</literal> connections (Jacob Champion)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-21 [7c3fb505b] Log messages for replication slot acquisition and releas
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add log message to report walsender acquisition and release of replication slots (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add log message to report walsender acquisition and release of
+ replication slots (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is enabled by the server variable <xref linkend="guc-log-replication-commands"/>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is enabled by the server variable <xref
+ linkend="guc-log-replication-commands"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-20 [1e68e43d3] Add system view pg_wait_events
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add system view <link linkend="view-pg-wait-events"><structname>pg_wait_events</structname></link> that reports wait event types (Bertrand Drouvot)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add system view <link
+ linkend="view-pg-wait-events"><structname>pg_wait_events</structname></link>
+ that reports wait event types (Bertrand Drouvot)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful for adding descriptions to wait events reported in <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</structname></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is useful for adding descriptions
+ to wait events reported in <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-activity-view"><structname>pg_stat_activity</structname></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-13 [0013ba290] Add wait events for checkpoint delay mechanism.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="view-pg-wait-events">wait events</link> for checkpoint delays (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="view-pg-wait-events">wait events</link> for
+ checkpoint delays (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-11 [46ebdfe16] Report index vacuum progress.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow vacuum to report the progress of index processing (Sami Imseih)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow vacuum to report the progress of index processing (Sami
+ Imseih)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This appears in system view <link linkend="pg-stat-progress-vacuum-view"><structname>pg_stat_progress_vacuum</structname></link> columns <structfield>indexes_total</structfield> and <structfield>indexes_processed</structfield>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This appears in system view <link
+ linkend="pg-stat-progress-vacuum-view"><structname>pg_stat_progress_vacuum</structname></link>
+ columns <structfield>indexes_total</structfield> and
+ <structfield>indexes_processed</structfield>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-08 [3dbd2ff78] Adjust wording of trace_connection_negotiation GUC's des
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add undocumented server variable <literal>trace_connection_negotiation</literal> to allow debugging of connection encryption (Heikki Linnakangas, Kyotaro Horiguchi)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add undocumented server variable
+ <literal>trace_connection_negotiation</literal> to allow debugging
+ of connection encryption (Heikki Linnakangas, Kyotaro Horiguchi)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-03-13 [ecb0fd337] Reintroduce MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefine
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow granting the right to perform maintenance operations (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow granting the right to perform maintenance operations
+ (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The permission can be granted on a per-table basis using the <link linkend="ddl-priv-maintain"><literal>MAINTAIN</literal></link> privilege and on a per-role basis via the
-<link linkend="predefined-roles"><literal>pg_maintain</literal></link> predefined role. Permitted operations are <command>VACUUM</command>, <command>ANALYZE</command>,
-<command>REINDEX</command>, <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW</command>, <command>CLUSTER</command>, and <command>LOCK TABLE</command>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The permission can be granted on a per-table basis using the <link
+ linkend="ddl-priv-maintain"><literal>MAINTAIN</literal></link>
+ privilege and on a per-role basis via the <link
+ linkend="predefined-roles"><literal>pg_maintain</literal></link>
+ predefined role. Permitted operations are
+ <command>VACUUM</command>, <command>ANALYZE</command>,
+ <command>REINDEX</command>, <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED
+ VIEW</command>, <command>CLUSTER</command>, and <command>LOCK
+ TABLE</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-14 [8d8afd48d] Allow pg_monitor to execute pg_current_logfile().
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow roles with <link linkend="predefined-roles"><literal>pg_monitor</literal></link> membership to execute
-<link linkend="functions-info-session-table"><function>pg_current_logfile()</function></link> (Pavlo Golub, Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow roles with <link
+ linkend="predefined-roles"><literal>pg_monitor</literal></link>
+ membership to execute <link
+ linkend="functions-info-session-table"><function>pg_current_logfile()</function></link>
+ (Pavlo Golub, Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-03-29 [d3ae2a24f] Add allow_alter_system GUC.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add system variable <xref linkend="guc-allow-alter-system"/> to disallow <link linkend="sql-altersystem"><command>ALTER SYSTEM</command></link> (Jelte Fennema-Nio, Gabriele Bartolini)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add system variable <xref linkend="guc-allow-alter-system"/>
+ to disallow <link linkend="sql-altersystem"><command>ALTER
+ SYSTEM</command></link> (Jelte Fennema-Nio, Gabriele Bartolini)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-21 [2d870b4ae] Allow ALTER SYSTEM to set unrecognized custom GUCs.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="sql-altersystem"><command>ALTER SYSTEM</command></link> to set unrecognized custom server variables (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="sql-altersystem"><command>ALTER
+ SYSTEM</command></link> to set unrecognized custom server variables
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is also possible with <link linkend="sql-grant"><literal>GRANT ON PARAMETER</literal></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is also possible with <link linkend="sql-grant"><literal>GRANT
+ ON PARAMETER</literal></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-25 [28e858c0f] Improve documentation and GUC description for transactio
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-transaction-timeout"/> to restrict the duration of transactions (Andrey Borodin, Japin Li, Junwang Zhao, Alexander Korotkov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-transaction-timeout"/> to
+ restrict the duration of transactions (Andrey Borodin, Japin Li,
+ Junwang Zhao, Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-20 [9acae56ce] Inline basic UTF-8 functions.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add a builtin platform-independent collation provider (Jeff Davis)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Add a builtin platform-independent collation provider (Jeff Davis)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This supports <literal>C</literal> and <literal>C.UTF-8</literal> collations.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This supports <literal>C</literal> and <literal>C.UTF-8</literal>
+ collations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-06 [a14354cac] Add GUC parameter "huge_pages_status"
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-huge-page-size"/> to report the use of huge pages by Postgres (Justin Pryzby)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-huge-page-size"/> to report
+ the use of huge pages by Postgres (Justin Pryzby)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful when <xref linkend="guc-huge-pages"/> is set to <literal>try</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is useful when <xref linkend="guc-huge-pages"/> is set to
+ <literal>try</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-25 [7750fefdb] Add GUC for temporarily disabling event triggers
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add server variable to disable event triggers (Daniel Gustafsson)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Add server variable to disable event triggers (Daniel Gustafsson)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The setting, <xref linkend="guc-event-triggers"/>, allows for the temporary disabling of event triggers for debugging.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The setting, <xref linkend="guc-event-triggers"/>, allows for the
+ temporary disabling of event triggers for debugging.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-28 [53c2a97a9] Improve performance of subsystems on top of SLRU
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-slru-view"><acronym>SLRU</acronym></link> cache sizes to be configured (Andrey Borodin, Dilip Kumar, Alvaro Herrera)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The new server variables are <xref linkend="guc-commit-timestamp-buffers"/>, <xref linkend="guc-multixact-member-buffers"/>, <xref linkend="guc-multixact-offset-buffers"/>, <xref linkend="guc-notify-buffers"/>, <xref linkend="guc-serializable-buffers"/>, <xref linkend="guc-subtransaction-buffers"/>, and
-<xref linkend="guc-transaction-buffers"/>. commit_timestamp_buffers, transaction_buffers and subtransaction_buffers scale up automatically with <xref linkend="guc-shared-buffers"/>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-slru-view"><acronym>SLRU</acronym></link>
+ cache sizes to be configured (Andrey Borodin, Dilip Kumar,
+ Alvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The new server variables are <xref
+ linkend="guc-commit-timestamp-buffers"/>,
+ <xref linkend="guc-multixact-member-buffers"/>,
+ <xref linkend="guc-multixact-offset-buffers"/>,
+ <xref linkend="guc-notify-buffers"/>, <xref
+ linkend="guc-serializable-buffers"/>, <xref
+ linkend="guc-subtransaction-buffers"/>, and <xref
+ linkend="guc-transaction-buffers"/>. commit_timestamp_buffers,
+ transaction_buffers and subtransaction_buffers scale up
+ automatically with <xref linkend="guc-shared-buffers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-04-05 [f8ce4ed78] Allow copying files using clone/copy_file_range
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add support for incremental file system backup (Robert Haas, Jakub Wartak, Tomas Vondra)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add support for incremental file system backup (Robert Haas,
+ Jakub Wartak, Tomas Vondra)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Incremental backups can be created using <link linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>'s new <option>--incremental</option> option. The new application <link linkend="app-pgcombinebackup"><application>pg_combinebackup</application></link> allows manipulation of base and incremental file system backups.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Incremental backups can be created using <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>'s
+ new <option>--incremental</option>
+ option. The new application <link
+ linkend="app-pgcombinebackup"><application>pg_combinebackup</application></link>
+ allows manipulation of base and incremental file system backups.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-11 [d9ef650fc] Add new function pg_get_wal_summarizer_state().
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the creation of <acronym>WAL</acronym> summarization files (Robert Haas, Nathan Bossart, Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the creation of <acronym>WAL</acronym> summarization files
+ (Robert Haas, Nathan Bossart, Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski)
+ </para>
-<para>
-These files record the block numbers that have changed within an <link linkend="datatype-pg-lsn"><acronym>LSN</acronym></link> range and are useful for incremental file system backups. This is controlled by the server variables
-<xref linkend="guc-summarize-wal"/> and <xref linkend="guc-wal-summary-keep-time"/>, and introspected with <link linkend="functions-wal-summary"><function>pg_available_wal_summaries()</function></link>, <function>pg_wal_summary_contents()</function>, and <function>pg_get_wal_summarizer_state()</function>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ These files record the block numbers that have changed within an
+ <link linkend="datatype-pg-lsn"><acronym>LSN</acronym></link>
+ range and are useful for incremental file
+ system backups. This is controlled by the server
+ variables <xref linkend="guc-summarize-wal"/> and <xref
+ linkend="guc-wal-summary-keep-time"/>, and introspected with <link
+ linkend="functions-wal-summary"><function>pg_available_wal_summaries()</function></link>,
+ <function>pg_wal_summary_contents()</function>, and
+ <function>pg_get_wal_summarizer_state()</function>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-13 [2041bc427] Add the system identifier to backup manifests.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add the system identifier to file system <link linkend="backup-manifest-format">backup manifest</link> files (Amul Sul)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add the system identifier to file system <link
+ linkend="backup-manifest-format">backup manifest</link> files
+ (Amul Sul)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This helps detect invalid <acronym>WAL</acronym> usage.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+
This helps detect invalid <acronym>WAL</acronym> usage.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-21 [a145f424d] Allow dbname to be written as part of connstring via pg_
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow connection string value <literal>dbname</literal> to be written when <link linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link> writes connection information to <filename>postgresql.auto.conf</filename> (Vignesh C, Hayato Kuroda)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow connection string value
+ <literal>dbname</literal> to be written when <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>
+ writes connection information to
+ <filename>postgresql.auto.conf</filename> (Vignesh C, Hayato Kuroda)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-22 [6ae701b43] Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add column <link linkend="view-pg-replication-slots"><structname>pg_replication_slots</structname>.<structfield>invalidation_reason</structfield></link> to report the reason for invalid slots (Shveta Malik, Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add column <link
+ linkend="view-pg-replication-slots"><structname>pg_replication_slots</structname>.<structfield>invalidation_reason</structfield></link>
+ to report the reason for invalid slots (Shveta Malik, Bharath
+ Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-05 [6f132ed69] Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add column <link linkend="view-pg-replication-slots"><structname>pg_replication_slots</structname>.<structfield>inactive_since</structfield></link> to report slot inactivity duration (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add column <link
+ linkend="view-pg-replication-slots"><structname>pg_replication_slots</structname>.<structfield>inactive_since</structfield></link>
+ to report slot inactivity duration (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-16 [7a424ece4] Add more LOG and DEBUG messages for slot synchronization
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_sync_replication_slots()</function></link> to synchronize logical replication slots (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik, Ajin Cherian, Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_sync_replication_slots()</function></link>
+ to synchronize logical replication slots (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik,
+ Ajin Cherian, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-29 [732924043] Allow setting failover property in the replication comma
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add the <literal>failover</literal> property to the <link linkend="protocol-replication">replication protocol</link> (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add the <literal>failover</literal> property to the <link
+ linkend="protocol-replication">replication protocol</link> (Hou
+ Zhijie, Shveta Malik)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect4 id="release-17-logical">
<title><link linkend="logical-replication">Logical Replication</link></title>
- <itemizedlist>
+ <itemizedlist>
<!--
2024-03-25 [d44032d01] pg_createsubscriber: creates a new logical replica from
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add application <link linkend="app-pgcreatesubscriber"><application>pg_createsubscriber</application></link> to create a logical replica from a physical standby server (Euler Taveira)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add application <link
+ linkend="app-pgcreatesubscriber"><application>pg_createsubscriber</application></link>
+ to create a logical replica from a physical standby server
+ (Euler Taveira)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-02 [9a17be1e2] Allow upgrades to preserve the full subscription's state
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Have <link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link> migrate valid logical slots and subscriptions (Hayato Kuroda, Hou Zhijie, Vignesh C, Julien Rouhaud, Shlok Kyal)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Have <link
+ linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>
+ migrate valid logical slots and subscriptions (Hayato Kuroda,
+ Hou Zhijie, Vignesh C, Julien Rouhaud, Shlok Kyal)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows logical replication to continue quickly after the upgrade. This only works for old clusters of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> version 17 or later.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This allows logical replication to continue quickly
+ after the upgrade. This only works for old clusters of
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> version 17 or later.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [c393308b6] Allow to enable failover property for replication slots
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Enable the failover of <link linkend="logical-replication-subscription-slot">logical slots</link> (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik, Ajin Cherian)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enable the failover of <link
+ linkend="logical-replication-subscription-slot">logical slots</link>
+ (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik, Ajin Cherian)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is controlled by an optional fifth argument to <link linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_create_logical_replication_slot()</function></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is controlled by an optional fifth argument to <link
+ linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_create_logical_replication_slot()</function></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-06 [60c07820d] Doc: Improve replication slot synchronization section.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-sync-replication-slots"/> to enable failover logical slot synchronization (Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie, Peter Smith)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add server variable <xref linkend="guc-sync-replication-slots"/>
+ to enable failover logical slot synchronization (Shveta Malik,
+ Hou Zhijie, Peter Smith)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-07 [22f7e61a6] Clean-ups for 776621a5e4 and 7329240437.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add logical replication failover control to <link linkend="sql-createsubscription"><literal>CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION</literal></link> (Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie, Ajin Cherian)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add logical replication failover control to <link
+ linkend="sql-createsubscription"><literal>CREATE/ALTER
+ SUBSCRIPTION</literal></link> (Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie, Ajin
+ Cherian)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-14 [edca34243] Allow the use of a hash index on the subscriber during r
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the application of logical replication changes to use <link linkend="hash-index">hash</link> indexes on the subscriber (Hayato Kuroda)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the application of logical replication changes to use
+ <link linkend="hash-index">hash</link> indexes on the subscriber
+ (Hayato Kuroda)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously only <link linkend="btree">btree</link> indexes could be used for this purpose.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Previously only <link linkend="btree">btree</link> indexes could
+ be used for this purpose.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-03 [5bec1d6bc] Improve eviction algorithm in ReorderBuffer using max-he
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve <link linkend="logicaldecoding">logical decoding</link> performance in cases where there are many subtransactions (Masahiko Sawada)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve <link linkend="logicaldecoding">logical decoding</link>
+ performance in cases where there are many subtransactions
+ (Masahiko Sawada)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-17 [79243de13] Restart the apply worker if the privileges have been rev
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Restart apply workers if subscription owner's superuser privileges are revoked (Vignesh C)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Restart apply workers if subscription owner's superuser privileges
+ are revoked (Vignesh C)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This forces reauthentication.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This forces reauthentication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-18 [173b56f1e] Add flush option to pg_logical_emit_message()
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <literal>flush</literal> option to <link linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_logical_emit_message()</function></link> (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <literal>flush</literal> option to <link
+ linkend="functions-replication-table"><function>pg_logical_emit_message()</function></link>
+ (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This makes the message durable.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This makes the message durable.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-08 [bf279ddd1] Introduce a new GUC 'standby_slot_names'.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow specification of physical standbys that must be synchronized before they are visible to subscribers (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow specification of physical standbys that must be synchronized
+ before they are visible to subscribers (Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The server variable is <xref linkend="guc-standby-slot-names"/>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The server variable is <xref linkend="guc-standby-slot-names"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-25 [13aeaf079] Add worker type to pg_stat_subscription.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add worker type column to <link linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-subscription"><structname>pg_stat_subscription</structname></link> (Peter Smith)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add worker type column to <link
+ linkend="monitoring-pg-stat-subscription"><structname>pg_stat_subscription</structname></link>
+ (Peter Smith)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
</sect4>
2024-04-17 [a6d0fa5ef] Disallow specifying ON_ERROR option without value.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add new <link linkend="sql-copy"><command>COPY</command></link> option <literal>ON_ERROR ignore</literal> to discard error rows (Damir Belyalov, Atsushi Torikoshi, Alex Shulgin, Jian He, Yugo Nagata)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add new <link linkend="sql-copy"><command>COPY</command></link>
+ option <literal>ON_ERROR ignore</literal> to discard error rows
+ (Damir Belyalov, Atsushi Torikoshi, Alex Shulgin, Jian He, Yugo
+ Nagata)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The default behavior is <literal>ON_ERROR stop</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The default behavior is <literal>ON_ERROR stop</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-01 [f5a227895] Add new COPY option LOG_VERBOSITY.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add new <command>COPY</command> option <literal>LOG_VERBOSITY</literal> which reports <literal>COPY FROM</literal> ignored error rows (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add new <command>COPY</command> option
+ <literal>LOG_VERBOSITY</literal> which reports <literal>COPY
+ FROM</literal> ignored error rows (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [729439607] Add progress reporting of skipped tuples during COPY FRO
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <literal>COPY FROM</literal> to report the number of skipped rows during processing (Atsushi Torikoshi)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <literal>COPY FROM</literal> to report the number of skipped
+ rows during processing (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This appears in system view column <link linkend="copy-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_copy</structname>.<structfield>tuples_skipped</structfield></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This appears in system view column <link
+ linkend="copy-progress-reporting"><structname>pg_stat_progress_copy</structname>.<structfield>tuples_skipped</structfield></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-30 [f6d4c9cf1] Provide FORCE_NULL * and FORCE_NOT_NULL * options for CO
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-In <literal>COPY FROM</literal>, allow easy specification that all columns should be forced null or not null (Zhang Mingli)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In <literal>COPY FROM</literal>, allow easy specification that all
+ columns should be forced null or not null (Zhang Mingli)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-29 [5de890e36] Add EXPLAIN (MEMORY) to report planner memory consumptio
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="sql-explain"><command>EXPLAIN</command></link> to report optimizer memory usage (Ashutosh Bapat)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="sql-explain"><command>EXPLAIN</command></link>
+ to report optimizer memory usage (Ashutosh Bapat)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The option is called <literal>MEMORY</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The option is called <literal>MEMORY</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-03 [06286709e] Invent SERIALIZE option for EXPLAIN.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <command>EXPLAIN</command> option <literal>SERIALIZE</literal> to report the cost of converting data for network transmission (Stepan Rutz, Matthias van de Meent)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <command>EXPLAIN</command> option <literal>SERIALIZE</literal>
+ to report the cost of converting data for network transmission
+ (Stepan Rutz, Matthias van de Meent)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-19 [295c36c0c] Add local_blk_{read|write}_time I/O timing statistics fo
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add local I/O block read/write timing statistics to <command>EXPLAIN</command> (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add local I/O block read/write timing statistics to
+ <command>EXPLAIN</command> (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-19 [fd0398fcb] Improve EXPLAIN's display of SubPlan nodes and output pa
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve <command>EXPLAIN</command>'s display of SubPlan nodes and output parameters (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve <command>EXPLAIN</command>'s display of SubPlan nodes and
+ output parameters (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-08 [5a3423ad8] Add JIT deform_counter
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <acronym>JIT</acronym> <literal>deform_counter</literal> details to <command>EXPLAIN</command> (Dmitry Dolgov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <acronym>JIT</acronym> <literal>deform_counter</literal>
+ details to <command>EXPLAIN</command> (Dmitry Dolgov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-07 [1adf16b8f] Implement ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow partitions to be merged using <link linkend="sql-altertable"><literal>ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS</literal></link> (Dmitry Koval)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow partitions to be merged using <link
+ linkend="sql-altertable"><literal>ALTER TABLE ... MERGE
+ PARTITIONS</literal></link> (Dmitry Koval)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-07 [87c21bb94] Implement ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ... command
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow partitions to be split using <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION</literal> (Dmitry Koval)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow partitions to be split using <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT
+ PARTITION</literal> (Dmitry Koval)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-16 [699586315] Support identity columns in partitioned tables
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow partitioned tables to have identity columns (Ashutosh Bapat)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ Allow partitioned tables to have identity columns (Ashutosh Bapat)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-12 [8c852ba9a] Allow some exclusion constraints on partitions
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="ddl-constraints-exclusion">exclusion constraints</link> on partitioned tables (Paul A. Jungwirth)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="ddl-constraints-exclusion">exclusion
+ constraints</link> on partitioned tables (Paul A. Jungwirth)
+ </para>
-<para>
-As long as exclusion constraints compare partition key columns for equality, other columns can use exclusion constraint-specific comparisons.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ As long as exclusion constraints compare partition key columns
+ for equality, other columns can use exclusion constraint-specific
+ comparisons.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-28 [e2395cdbe] ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow specification of partitioned <link linkend="tableam">table access methods</link> (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Michael Paquier)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow specification of partitioned <link linkend="tableam">table
+ access methods</link> (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep Chakraborty,
+ Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-13 [4f622503d] Make attstattarget nullable
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add clearer <link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ALTER TABLE</command></link> method to set a column to the default statistics target (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add clearer <link linkend="sql-altertable"><command>ALTER
+ TABLE</command></link> method to set a column to the default
+ statistics target (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new syntax is <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DEFAULT</literal>; using <literal>SET STATISTICS -1</literal> is still supported.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new syntax is <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS
+ DEFAULT</literal>; using <literal>SET STATISTICS -1</literal>
+ is still supported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-04 [5d06e99a3] ALTER TABLE command to change generation expression
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <literal>ALTER TABLE</literal> to change a column's generation expression (Amul Sul)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <literal>ALTER TABLE</literal> to change a column's generation
+ expression (Amul Sul)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The syntax is <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The syntax is <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET
+ EXPRESSION</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-08 [d61a6cad6] Add support for DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS MET
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <literal>DEFAULT</literal> setting for <literal>ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS METHOD</literal> (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <literal>DEFAULT</literal> setting for <literal>ALTER TABLE
+ .. SET ACCESS METHOD</literal> (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-16 [e83d1b0c4] Add support event triggers on authenticated login
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add support for <link linkend="sql-createeventtrigger">event triggers</link> that fire at connection time (Konstantin Knizhnik, Mikhail Gribkov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add support for <link linkend="sql-createeventtrigger">event
+ triggers</link> that fire at connection time (Konstantin Knizhnik,
+ Mikhail Gribkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-04 [f21848de2] Add support for REINDEX in event triggers
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add event trigger support for <link linkend="sql-reindex"><command>REINDEX</command></link> (Garrett Thornburg, Jian He)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add event trigger support for <link
+ linkend="sql-reindex"><command>REINDEX</command></link> (Garrett
+ Thornburg, Jian He)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-19 [cdaedfc96] Support parenthesized syntax for CLUSTER without a table
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow parenthesized syntax for <link linkend="sql-cluster"><command>CLUSTER</command></link> options if a table name is not specified (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow parenthesized syntax for <link
+ linkend="sql-cluster"><command>CLUSTER</command></link> options if
+ a table name is not specified (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2023-11-14 [519fc1bd9] Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the <type>interval</type> data type to support <literal>+/-infinity</literal> values (Joseph Koshakow, Jian He, Ashutosh Bapat)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the <type>interval</type> data type to support
+ <literal>+/-infinity</literal> values (Joseph Koshakow, Jian He,
+ Ashutosh Bapat)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-24 [af1d39584] Allow more cases to pass the unsafe-use-of-new-enum-valu
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the use of an <link linkend="datatype-enum"><type>ENUM</type></link> added via <link linkend="sql-altertype"><command>ALTER TYPE</command></link> if the type was created in the same transaction (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the use of an <link
+ linkend="datatype-enum"><type>ENUM</type></link> added via <link
+ linkend="sql-altertype"><command>ALTER TYPE</command></link> if
+ the type was created in the same transaction (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This was previously disallowed.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This was previously disallowed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-02-29 [5f2e179bd] Support MERGE into updatable views.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <command>MERGE</command> to modify updatable views (Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <command>MERGE</command> to modify updatable views (Dean
+ Rasheed)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-30 [0294df2f1] Add support for MERGE ... WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <literal>WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE</literal> to <command>MERGE</command> (Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <literal>WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE</literal> to
+ <command>MERGE</command> (Dean Rasheed)
+ </para>
-<para>
-<literal>WHEN NOT MATCHED</literal> on target rows was already supported.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>WHEN NOT MATCHED</literal> on target rows was already
+ supported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-17 [c649fa24a] Add RETURNING support to MERGE.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <command>MERGE</command> to use the <literal>RETURNING</literal> clause (Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <command>MERGE</command> to use the
+ <literal>RETURNING</literal> clause (Dean Rasheed)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new <literal>RETURNING</literal> function <function>merge_action()</function> reports on the <acronym>DML</acronym> that generated the row.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new <literal>RETURNING</literal> function
+ <function>merge_action()</function> reports on the
+ <acronym>DML</acronym> that generated the row.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-04-08 [bb766cde6] JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-sqljson-table"><function>JSON_TABLE()</function></link> to convert <type>JSON</type> data to a table representation (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Dunstan, Amit Langote, Jian He)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-sqljson-table"><function>JSON_TABLE()</function></link>
+ to convert <type>JSON</type> data to a table representation (Nikita
+ Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew
+ Dunstan, Amit Langote, Jian He)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This function can be used in the <literal>FROM</literal> clause of <command>SELECT</command> queries as a tuple source.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This function can be used in the <literal>FROM</literal> clause of
+ <command>SELECT</command> queries as a tuple source.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-26 [03734a7fe] Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> constructor functions <link linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>JSON()</function></link>, <function>JSON_SCALAR()</function>, and <function>JSON_SERIALIZE()</function> (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Dunstan, Amit Langote)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> constructor functions <link
+ linkend="functions-json-creation-table"><function>JSON()</function></link>,
+ <function>JSON_SCALAR()</function>, and
+ <function>JSON_SERIALIZE()</function> (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev,
+ Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Dunstan, Amit Langote)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-18 [ef744ebb7] SQL/JSON: Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> query functions <link linkend="functions-sqljson-querying"><function>JSON_EXISTS()</function></link>, <function>JSON_QUERY()</function>, and <function>JSON_VALUE()</function> (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Dunstan, Amit Langote,
-Peter Eisentraut, Jian He)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> query functions <link
+ linkend="functions-sqljson-querying"><function>JSON_EXISTS()</function></link>,
+ <function>JSON_QUERY()</function>, and
+ <function>JSON_VALUE()</function> (Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev,
+ Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, Andrew Dunstan, Amit Langote,
+ Peter Eisentraut, Jian He)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [66ea94e8e] Implement various jsonpath methods
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="functions-sqljson-path-operators">jsonpath</link> methods to convert <type>JSON</type> values to other <type>JSON</type> data types (Jeevan Chalke)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link linkend="functions-sqljson-path-operators">jsonpath</link>
+ methods to convert <type>JSON</type> values to other
+ <type>JSON</type> data types (Jeevan Chalke)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The jsonpath methods are <function>.bigint()</function>,
-<function>.boolean()</function>, <function>.date()</function>,
-<function>.decimal([precision [, scale]])</function>, <function>.integer()</function>,
-<function>.number()</function>, <function>.string()</function>,
-<function>.time()</function>, <function>.time_tz()</function>,
-<function>.timestamp()</function>, and
-<function>.timestamp_tz()</function>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The jsonpath methods are <function>.bigint()</function>,
+ <function>.boolean()</function>, <function>.date()</function>,
+ <function>.decimal([precision [, scale]])</function>,
+ <function>.integer()</function>, <function>.number()</function>,
+ <function>.string()</function>, <function>.time()</function>,
+ <function>.time_tz()</function>, <function>.timestamp()</function>,
+ and <function>.timestamp_tz()</function>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [8ba6fdf90] Support TZ and OF format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</function>.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="functions-formatting-table"><function>to_timestamp()</function></link> time zone format specifiers (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="functions-formatting-table"><function>to_timestamp()</function></link>
+ time zone format specifiers (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-<literal>TZ</literal> accepts time zone abbreviations or numeric offsets, while <literal>OF</literal> accepts only numeric offsets.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>TZ</literal> accepts time zone abbreviations or numeric
+ offsets, while <literal>OF</literal> accepts only numeric offsets.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-13 [97957fdba] Add support for AT LOCAL
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the session <link linkend="guc-timezone">time zone</link> to be specified by <literal>AS LOCAL</literal> (Vik Fearing)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the session <link linkend="guc-timezone">time zone</link>
+ to be specified by <literal>AS LOCAL</literal> (Vik Fearing)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful when converting adding and removing time zones from time stamps values, rather than specifying the literal session time zone.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is useful when converting adding and removing time zones from
+ time stamps values, rather than specifying the literal session
+ time zone.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-19 [794f10f6b] Add some UUID support functions
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add functions <link linkend="functions-uuid"><function>uuid_extract_timestamp()</function></link> and <function>uuid_extract_version()</function> to return <acronym>UUID</acronym> information (Andrey Borodin)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add functions <link
+ linkend="functions-uuid"><function>uuid_extract_timestamp()</function></link>
+ and <function>uuid_extract_version()</function> to return
+ <acronym>UUID</acronym> information (Andrey Borodin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-27 [e6341323a] Add functions to generate random numbers in a specified
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add functions to generate random numbers in a specified range (Dean Rasheed)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add functions to generate random numbers in a specified range
+ (Dean Rasheed)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The functions are <link linkend="functions-math-random-table"><function>random(min, max)</function></link> and they take values of type <type>integer</type>, <type>bigint</type>, and <type>numeric</type>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The functions are <link
+ linkend="functions-math-random-table"><function>random(min,
+ max)</function></link> and they take values of type
+ <type>integer</type>, <type>bigint</type>, and <type>numeric</type>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-23 [260a1f18d] Add to_bin() and to_oct().
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add functions to convert integers to binary and octal strings (Eric Radman, Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add functions to convert integers to binary and octal strings
+ (Eric Radman, Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The functions are <link linkend="functions-string-other"><function>to_bin()</function></link> and <function>to_oct()</function>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The functions are <link
+ linkend="functions-string-other"><function>to_bin()</function></link>
+ and <function>to_oct()</function>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-01 [a02b37fc0] Additional unicode primitive functions.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add Unicode informational functions (Jeff Davis)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Add Unicode informational functions (Jeff Davis)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Function <link linkend="functions-info-version"><function>unicode_version()</function></link> returns the Unicode version, <function>icu_unicode_version()</function> returns the <acronym>ICU</acronym> version, and <function>unicode_assigned()</function> returns if the characters are assigned Unicode codepoints.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Function <link
+ linkend="functions-info-version"><function>unicode_version()</function></link>
+ returns the Unicode version,
+ <function>icu_unicode_version()</function>
+ returns the <acronym>ICU</acronym> version, and
+ <function>unicode_assigned()</function> returns if the characters
+ are assigned Unicode codepoints.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-06 [526fe0d79] Add XMLText function (SQL/XML X038)
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-producing-xml-xmltext"><function>xmltext()</function></link> to convert text to a single <type>XML</type> text node (Jim Jones)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-producing-xml-xmltext"><function>xmltext()</function></link>
+ to convert text to a single <type>XML</type> text node (Jim Jones)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-20 [1218ca995] Add to_regtypemod function to extract typemod from a str
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>to_regtypemod()</function></link> to return the type modifier of a type specification (David Wheeler, Erik Wienhold)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>to_regtypemod()</function></link>
+ to return the type modifier of a type specification (David Wheeler,
+ Erik Wienhold)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-30 [b154d8a6d] Add pg_basetype() function to extract a domain's base ty
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>pg_basetype()</function></link> function to return a domain's base type (Steve Chavez)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="functions-info-catalog-table"><function>pg_basetype()</function></link>
+ function to return a domain's base type (Steve Chavez)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-14 [d1162cfda] Add pg_column_toast_chunk_id().
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function <link linkend="functions-admin-dbsize"><function>pg_column_toast_chunk_id()</function></link> to return a value's <link linkend="storage-toast"><acronym>TOAST</acronym></link> identifier (Yugo Nagata)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add function <link
+ linkend="functions-admin-dbsize"><function>pg_column_toast_chunk_id()</function></link>
+ to return a value's <link
+ linkend="storage-toast"><acronym>TOAST</acronym></link> identifier
+ (Yugo Nagata)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This returns <literal>NULL</literal> if the value is not stored in <acronym>TOAST</acronym>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This returns <literal>NULL</literal> if the value is not stored
+ in <acronym>TOAST</acronym>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-01-04 [5e8674dc8] In plpgsql, allow %TYPE and %ROWTYPE to be followed by a
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow plpgsql <link linkend="plpgsql-declaration-type"><literal>%TYPE</literal></link> and <literal>%ROWTYPE</literal> specifications to represent arrays of non-array types (Quan Zongliang, Pavel Stehule)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow plpgsql <link
+ linkend="plpgsql-declaration-type"><literal>%TYPE</literal></link>
+ and <literal>%ROWTYPE</literal> specifications to represent arrays
+ of non-array types (Quan Zongliang, Pavel Stehule)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-05 [43b46aae1] Clean up some edge cases in plpgsql's %TYPE parsing.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow plpgsql <literal>%TYPE</literal> specification to reference composite column (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow plpgsql <literal>%TYPE</literal> specification to reference
+ composite column (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2024-01-09 [a7be2a6c2] Add new function, PQchangePassword(), to libpq
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq function to change role passwords (Joe Conway)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Add libpq function to change role passwords (Joe Conway)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new function, <link linkend="libpq-PQchangePassword"><function>PQchangePassword()</function></link>, hashes the new password before sending it to the server.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new function, <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQchangePassword"><function>PQchangePassword()</function></link>,
+ hashes the new password before sending it to the server.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-04 [28b572656] libpq: Add support for Close on portals and statements
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq functions to close portals and prepared statements (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq functions to close portals and prepared statements
+ (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The functions are <link linkend="libpq-PQclosePrepared"><function>PQclosePrepared()</function></link>, <link linkend="libpq-PQclosePortal"><function>PQclosePortal()</function></link>, <link linkend="libpq-PQsendClosePrepared"><function>PQsendClosePrepared()</function></link>, and <link linkend="libpq-PQsendClosePortal"><function>PQsendClosePortal()</function></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The functions are <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQclosePrepared"><function>PQclosePrepared()</function></link>,
+ <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQclosePortal"><function>PQclosePortal()</function></link>,
+ <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQsendClosePrepared"><function>PQsendClosePrepared()</function></link>,
+ and <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQsendClosePortal"><function>PQsendClosePortal()</function></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-12 [61461a300] libpq: Add encrypted and non-blocking query cancellation
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq <acronym>API</acronym> which allows for blocking and non-blocking <link linkend="libpq-cancel">cancel requests</link>, with encryption if already in use (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq <acronym>API</acronym> which allows for blocking and
+ non-blocking <link linkend="libpq-cancel">cancel requests</link>,
+ with encryption if already in use (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously only blocking, unencrypted cancel requests were supported.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ Previously only blocking, unencrypted cancel requests were supported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-06-13 [105024a47] Improve the granularity of PQsocketPoll's timeout parame
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq function <link linkend="libpq-PQsocketPoll"><function>PQsocketPoll</function></link> to allow polling of network sockets (Tristan Partin, Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq function <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQsocketPoll"><function>PQsocketPoll</function></link>
+ to allow polling of network sockets (Tristan Partin, Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-16 [4794c2d31] libpq: Add PQsendPipelineSync()
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq function <link linkend="libpq-PQsendPipelineSync"><function>PQsendPipelineSync()</function></link> to send a pipeline synchronization point (Anton Kirilov)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq function <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQsendPipelineSync"><function>PQsendPipelineSync()</function></link>
+ to send a pipeline synchronization point (Anton Kirilov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is similar to <link linkend="libpq-PQpipelineSync"><function>PQpipelineSync()</function></link> but it does not flush to the server unless the size threshold of the output buffer is reached.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is similar to <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQpipelineSync"><function>PQpipelineSync()</function></link>
+ but it does not flush to the server unless the size threshold of
+ the output buffer is reached.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-06 [4643a2b26] Support retrieval of results in chunks with libpq.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add libpq function <link linkend="libpq-PQsetChunkedRowsMode"><function>PQsetChunkedRowsMode()</function></link> to allow retrieval of results in chunks (Daniel Vérité)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add libpq function <link
+ linkend="libpq-PQsetChunkedRowsMode"><function>PQsetChunkedRowsMode()</function></link>
+ to allow retrieval of results in chunks (Daniel Vérité)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-05-16 [fb5718f35] Remove option to fall back from direct to postgres SSL n
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <acronym>TLS</acronym> connections without requiring a network round-trip negotiation (Greg Stark, Heikki Linnakangas, Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier, Daniel Gustafsson)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <acronym>TLS</acronym> connections without requiring a
+ network round-trip negotiation (Greg Stark, Heikki Linnakangas,
+ Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier, Daniel Gustafsson)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is enabled with the client-side option <link linkend="libpq-connect-sslnegotiation"><literal>sslnegotiation=direct</literal></link>, requires <acronym>ALPN</acronym>, and only works on <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 17 and later servers.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is enabled with the client-side option <link
+ linkend="libpq-connect-sslnegotiation"><literal>sslnegotiation=direct</literal></link>,
+ requires <acronym>ALPN</acronym>, and only works on
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 17 and later servers.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2023-11-13 [d1379ebf4] Improve default and empty privilege outputs in psql.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve <application>psql</application> display of default and empty privileges (Erik Wienhold, Laurenz Albe)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve <application>psql</application> display of default and
+ empty privileges (Erik Wienhold, Laurenz Albe)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Command <literal>\dp</literal> now displays <literal>(none)</literal> for empty privileges; default still display as empty.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Command <literal>\dp</literal> now displays <literal>(none)</literal>
+ for empty privileges; default still display as empty.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-13 [d1379ebf4] Improve default and empty privilege outputs in psql.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Have backslash commands honor <literal>\pset null</literal> (Erik Wienhold, Laurenz Albe)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Have backslash commands honor <literal>\pset null</literal> (Erik
+ Wienhold, Laurenz Albe)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Previously <literal>\pset null</literal> was ignored.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ Previously <literal>\pset null</literal> was ignored.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-29 [f347ec76e] Allow \watch queries to stop on minimum rows returned
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\watch</literal> to stop after a minimum number of rows returned (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>psql</application>'s <literal>\watch</literal>
+ to stop after a minimum number of rows returned (Greg Sabino Mullane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The parameter is <literal>min_rows</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The parameter is <literal>min_rows</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-02 [cafe10565] Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application>psql</application> connections to be canceled with control-C (Tristan Partin)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>psql</application> connections to be canceled
+ with control-C (Tristan Partin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-06 [90f517821] Re-implement psql's FETCH_COUNT feature atop libpq's chu
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application>psql</application> to honor <literal>FETCH_COUNT</literal> for non-<command>SELECT</command> queries (Daniel Vérité)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>psql</application> to honor
+ <literal>FETCH_COUNT</literal> for non-<command>SELECT</command>
+ queries (Daniel Vérité)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-05-01 [2800fbb2b] Add tab completion for EXPLAIN (MEMORY|SERIALIZE)
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve <application>psql</application> tab completion (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Gilles Darold, Christoph Heiss, Steve Chavez, Vignesh C, Pavel Borisov, Jian He)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve <application>psql</application> tab completion (Dagfinn
+ Ilmari Mannsåker, Gilles Darold, Christoph Heiss, Steve Chavez,
+ Vignesh C, Pavel Borisov, Jian He)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
- </sect3>
+ </sect3>
- <sect3 id="release-17-server-apps">
- <title>Server Applications</title>
+ <sect3 id="release-17-server-apps">
+ <title>Server Applications</title>
- <itemizedlist>
+ <itemizedlist>
<!--
2024-01-11 [ee1bfd168] Add new pg_walsummary tool.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add application <link linkend="app-pgwalsummary"><application>pg_walsummary</application></link> to dump <acronym>WAL</acronym> summary files (Robert Haas)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add application <link
+ linkend="app-pgwalsummary"><application>pg_walsummary</application></link>
+ to dump <acronym>WAL</acronym> summary files (Robert Haas)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-01 [a45c78e32] Rearrange pg_dump's handling of large objects for better
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="app-pgdump"><application>pg_dump</application></link>'s large objects to be restorable in batches (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-pgdump"><application>pg_dump</application></link>'s
+ large objects to be restorable in batches (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows the restoration of many large objects to avoid transaction limits and to be restored in parallel.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This allows the restoration of many large objects to avoid
+ transaction limits and to be restored in parallel.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-20 [522ed12f7] Add "- -exclude-extension" to pg_dump's options.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <application>pg_dump</application> option <option>--exclude-extension</option> (Ayush Vatsa)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <application>pg_dump</application> option
+ <option>--exclude-extension</option> (Ayush Vatsa)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-29 [a5cf808be] Read include/exclude commands for dump/restore from file
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application>pg_dump</application>, <link linkend="app-pg-dumpall"><application>pg_dumpall</application></link>, and <link linkend="app-pgrestore"><application>pg_restore</application></link> to specify include/exclude objects in a file (Pavel Stehule, Daniel Gustafsson)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application>pg_dump</application>, <link
+ linkend="app-pg-dumpall"><application>pg_dumpall</application></link>,
+ and <link
+ linkend="app-pgrestore"><application>pg_restore</application></link>
+ to specify include/exclude objects in a file (Pavel Stehule,
+ Daniel Gustafsson)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The option is called <option>--filter</option>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The option is called <option>--filter</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-06 [8c16ad3b4] Allow using syncfs() in frontend utilities.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add the <option>--sync-method</option> parameter to several client applications (Justin Pryzby, Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add the <option>--sync-method</option> parameter to several client
+ applications (Justin Pryzby, Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The applications are <link linkend="app-initdb"><application>initdb</application></link>, <link linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>, <link linkend="app-pgchecksums"><application>pg_checksums</application></link>, <application>pg_dump</application>, <link linkend="app-pgrewind"><application>pg_rewind</application></link>, and <link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The applications are <link
+ linkend="app-initdb"><application>initdb</application></link>, <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>,
+ <link
+ linkend="app-pgchecksums"><application>pg_checksums</application></link>,
+ <application>pg_dump</application>, <link
+ linkend="app-pgrewind"><application>pg_rewind</application></link>,
+ and <link
+ linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-01 [959b38d77] Invent - -transaction-size option for pg_restore.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="app-pgrestore"><application>pg_restore</application></link> option <option>--transaction-size</option> to allow object restore in transaction batches (Tom Lane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="app-pgrestore"><application>pg_restore</application></link>
+ option <option>--transaction-size</option> to allow object restore
+ in transaction batches (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This allows the performance benefits of transaction batches without the problems of excessively large transaction blocks.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This allows the performance benefits of transaction batches without
+ the problems of excessively large transaction blocks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-25 [3ff01b2b6] Adjust pgbench option for debug mode.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Change <link linkend="pgbench"><application>pgbench</application></link> debug mode option from <option>-d</option> to <option>--debug</option> (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change <link
+ linkend="pgbench"><application>pgbench</application></link> debug
+ mode option from <option>-d</option> to <option>--debug</option>
+ (Greg Sabino Mullane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Option <option>-d</option> is now used for the database name, and the new <option>--dbname</option> option can be used as well.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Option <option>-d</option> is now used for the database name,
+ and the new <option>--dbname</option> option can be used as well.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-30 [3c662643c] Allow pgbench to exit immediately when any client is abo
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add pgbench option <option>--exit-on-abort</option> to exit after any client aborts (Yugo Nagata)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add pgbench option <option>--exit-on-abort</option> to exit after
+ any client aborts (Yugo Nagata)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-24 [94edfe250] pgbench: Add \syncpipeline
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add pgbench command \syncpipeline to allow sending of sync messages (Anthonin Bonnefoy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add pgbench command \syncpipeline to allow sending of sync messages
+ (Anthonin Bonnefoy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-19 [3f8c98d0b] pg_archivecleanup: Add - -clean-backup-history
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><application>pg_archivecleanup</application></link> to remove backup history files (Atsushi Torikoshi)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="pgarchivecleanup"><application>pg_archivecleanup</application></link>
+ to remove backup history files (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The option is <option>--clean-backup-history</option>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The option is <option>--clean-backup-history</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-06-30 [dd7c60f19] Introduce long options in pg_archivecleanup
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add some long options to <application>pg_archivecleanup</application> (Atsushi Torikoshi)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add some long options to <application>pg_archivecleanup</application>
+ (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The long options are <option>--debug</option>, <option>--dry-run</option>, and <option>--strip-extension</option>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The long options are <option>--debug</option>,
+ <option>--dry-run</option>, and <option>--strip-extension</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-21 [cca97ce6a] Allow dbname in pg_basebackup/pg_receivewal connstring
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link> and <link linkend="app-pgreceivewal"><application>pg_receivewal</application></link> to use dbname in their connection specification (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>
+ and <link
+ linkend="app-pgreceivewal"><application>pg_receivewal</application></link>
+ to use dbname in their connection specification (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful for connection poolers that are sensitive to the database name.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is useful for connection poolers that are sensitive to the
+ database name.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-06 [d93627bcb] Add - -copy-file-range option to pg_upgrade.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link> option <option>--copy-file-range</option> (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <link
+ linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>
+ option <option>--copy-file-range</option> (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is supported on <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</systemitem>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is supported on <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
+ and <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</systemitem>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-25 [47f99a407] reindexdb: Add the index-level REINDEX with multiple job
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="app-reindexdb"><application>reindexdb</application></link> <option>--index</option> to process indexes from different tables in parallel (Maxim Orlov, Svetlana Derevyanko, Alexander Korotkov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link
+ linkend="app-reindexdb"><application>reindexdb</application></link>
+ <option>--index</option> to process indexes from different tables
+ in parallel (Maxim Orlov, Svetlana Derevyanko, Alexander Korotkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-11 [1b49d56d3] clusterdb: Allow specifying tables to process in all dat
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="app-reindexdb">reindexdb</link>, <link linkend="app-vacuumdb">vacuumdb</link>, and <link linkend="app-clusterdb">clusterdb</link> to process objects in all databases matching a pattern (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="app-reindexdb">reindexdb</link>,
+ <link linkend="app-vacuumdb">vacuumdb</link>, and <link
+ linkend="app-clusterdb">clusterdb</link> to process objects in all
+ databases matching a pattern (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new option <option>--all</option> controls this behavior.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ The new option <option>--all</option> controls this behavior.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
2023-07-03 [8e278b657] Remove support for OpenSSL 1.0.1
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove support for <productname>OpenSSL</productname> 1.0.1 (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove support for <productname>OpenSSL</productname> 1.0.1
+ (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-17 [3c44e7d8d] Allow tests to pass in OpenSSL FIPS mode (rest)
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow tests to pass in <productname>OpenSSL</productname> <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow tests to pass in <productname>OpenSSL</productname>
+ <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-06 [41c51f0c6] Optimize visibilitymap_count() with AVX-512 instructions
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Use <acronym>CPU AVX</acronym>-512 instructions for bit counting (Paul Amonson, Nathan Bossart, Ants Aasma)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use <acronym>CPU AVX</acronym>-512 instructions for bit counting
+ (Paul Amonson, Nathan Bossart, Ants Aasma)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [820b5af73] jit: Require at least LLVM 10.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Require <productname><acronym>LLVM</acronym></productname> version 10 or later (Thomas Munro)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Require <productname><acronym>LLVM</acronym></productname> version
+ 10 or later (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-10 [4d14ccd6a] Use native CRC instructions on 64-bit LoongArch
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Use native <acronym>CRC</acronym> instructions on 64-bit <productname>LoongArch</productname> CPUs (Xudong Yang)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use native <acronym>CRC</acronym> instructions on 64-bit
+ <productname>LoongArch</productname> CPUs (Xudong Yang)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-28 [0b16bb877] Remove AIX support
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <systemitem class="osname"><acronym>AIX</acronym></systemitem> support (Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <systemitem class="osname"><acronym>AIX</acronym></systemitem>
+ support (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-20 [1301c80b2] Remove MSVC scripts
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove the <productname>Microsoft Visual Studio</productname>-specific <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> build option (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove the <productname>Microsoft Visual
+ Studio</productname>-specific <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ build option (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-<productname>Meson</productname> is now the only available method for <productname>Visual Studio</productname> builds.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ <productname>Meson</productname> is now the only available method
+ for <productname>Visual Studio</productname> builds.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-12 [ce0b0fa3e] Doc: Adjust libpq docs about thread safety.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove configure option <option>--disable-thread-safety</option> (Thomas Munro, Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove configure option <option>--disable-thread-safety</option>
+ (Thomas Munro, Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
-<para>
-We now assume all supported platforms have sufficient thread support.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ We now assume all supported platforms have sufficient thread support.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-28 [1c1eec0f2] Remove configure - -with-CC option
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <application>configure</application> option <option>--with-CC</option> (Heikki Linnakangas)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <application>configure</application> option
+ <option>--with-CC</option> (Heikki Linnakangas)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Setting the <envar>CC</envar> environment variable is now the only supported method for specifying the compiler.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setting the <envar>CC</envar> environment variable is now the only
+ supported method for specifying the compiler.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-26 [f0efa5aec] Introduce the concept of read-only StringInfos
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-User-defined data type receive functions will no longer receive their data null-terminated (David Rowley)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ User-defined data type receive functions will no longer receive
+ their data null-terminated (David Rowley)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-04 [3311ea86e] Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add incremental <type>JSON</type> parser for use with huge <type>JSON</type> documents (Andrew Dunstan)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add incremental <type>JSON</type> parser for use with huge
+ <type>JSON</type> documents (Andrew Dunstan)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-02-28 [363eb0599] Convert README to Markdown.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Convert top-level <filename>README</filename> file to <productname>Markdown</productname> (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Convert top-level <filename>README</filename> file to
+ <productname>Markdown</productname> (Nathan Bossart)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-22 [e2b73f4a4] Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove no longer needed top-level <filename>INSTALL</filename> file (Tom Lane)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove no longer needed top-level <filename>INSTALL</filename> file
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-06 [721856ff2] Remove distprep
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <application>make</application>'s <literal>distprep</literal> option (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <application>make</application>'s <literal>distprep</literal>
+ option (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-23 [79b03dbb3] Support shared libraries on Android (using make)
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <application>make</application> support for <productname>Android</productname> shared libraries (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <application>make</application> support for
+ <productname>Android</productname> shared libraries (Peter
+ Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-08 [f587338de] injection_points: Introduce runtime conditions
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add backend support for injection points (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ Add backend support for injection points (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is used for server debugging and they must be enabled at server compile time.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is used for server debugging and they must be enabled at server
+ compile time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-04 [2a217c371] Coordinate emit_log_hook and all log destinations to sha
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Fix <literal>emit_log_hook</literal> to use the same time value as other log records for the same query (Kambam Vinay, Michael Paquier)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <literal>emit_log_hook</literal> to use the same time value as
+ other log records for the same query (Kambam Vinay, Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-25 [7014c9a4b] Doc: improve documentation for jsonpath behavior.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Improve documentation for using <literal>jsonpath</literal> for predicate checks (David Wheeler)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve documentation for using <literal>jsonpath</literal> for
+ predicate checks (David Wheeler)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect3 id="release-17-modules">
<title>Additional Modules</title>
- <itemizedlist>
+ <itemizedlist>
<!--
2023-08-15 [9e9931d2b] Re-allow FDWs and custom scan providers to replace joins
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow joins with non-join qualifications to be pushed down to foreign servers and custom scans (Richard Guo, Etsuro Fujita)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow joins with non-join qualifications to be pushed down to
+ foreign servers and custom scans (Richard Guo, Etsuro Fujita)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Foreign data wrappers and custom scans will need to be modified to handle these cases.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Foreign data wrappers and custom scans will need to be modified to
+ handle these cases.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-12-05 [824dbea3e] Add support for deparsing semi-joins to contrib/postgres
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow pushdown of <literal>EXISTS</literal> and <literal>IN</literal> subqueries to the <xref linkend="postgres-fdw"/> foreign server (Alexander Pyhalov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow pushdown of <literal>EXISTS</literal> and <literal>IN</literal>
+ subqueries to the <xref linkend="postgres-fdw"/> foreign server
+ (Alexander Pyhalov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-11 [f7f694b21] Update documentation of default fdw_tuple_cost
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Increase the default foreign data wrapper tuple cost (David Rowley, Umair Shahid)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Increase the default foreign data wrapper tuple cost (David Rowley,
+ Umair Shahid)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This value is used by the optimizer.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This value is used by the optimizer.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-01-08 [d3c5f37dd] Make dblink interruptible, via new libpqsrv APIs.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="dblink"><application>dblink</application></link> database operations to be interrupted (Noah Misch)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="dblink"><application>dblink</application></link>
+ database operations to be interrupted (Noah Misch)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-21 [485f0aa85] Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow the creation of hash indexes on <application><xref linkend="ltree"/></application> columns (Tommy Pavlicek)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the creation of hash indexes on <application><xref
+ linkend="ltree"/></application> columns (Tommy Pavlicek)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This also enables hash join and hash aggregation on <application>ltree</application> columns.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This also enables hash join and hash aggregation on
+ <application>ltree</application> columns.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-20 [59f47fb98] unaccent: Add support for quoted translated characters
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application><xref linkend="unaccent"/></application> character translation rules to contain whitespace and quotes (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application><xref linkend="unaccent"/></application> character
+ translation rules to contain whitespace and quotes (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The syntax for the <filename>unaccent.rules</filename> file has changed.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The syntax for the <filename>unaccent.rules</filename> file has
+ changed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-28 [5ae208720] Teach contrib/amcheck to check the unique constraint vio
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application><xref linkend="amcheck"/></application> to check for unique constraint violations (Anastasia Lubennikova, Pavel Borisov, Maxim Orlov)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application><xref linkend="amcheck"/></application> to
+ check for unique constraint violations (Anastasia Lubennikova,
+ Pavel Borisov, Maxim Orlov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The <application>pg_amcheck</application> option <option>--checkunique</option> will check all unique indexes.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <application>pg_amcheck</application> option
+ <option>--checkunique</option> will check all unique indexes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-07 [3c551ebed] citext: Allow tests to pass in OpenSSL FIPS mode
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application><xref linkend="citext"/></application> tests to pass in OpenSSL <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application><xref linkend="citext"/></application> tests to
+ pass in OpenSSL <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-17 [795592865] pgcrypto: Allow tests to pass in OpenSSL FIPS mode
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <application><xref linkend="pgcrypto"/></application> tests to pass in OpenSSL <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <application><xref linkend="pgcrypto"/></application> tests
+ to pass in OpenSSL <acronym>FIPS</acronym> mode (Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-27 [75680c3d8] Retire a few backwards compatibility macros.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove some unused <link linkend="spi"><acronym>SPI</acronym></link> macros (Bharath Rupireddy)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove some unused <link linkend="spi"><acronym>SPI</acronym></link>
+ macros (Bharath Rupireddy)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-03-04 [cc09e6549] Remove the adminpack contrib extension
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Remove <application>adminpack</application> contrib extension (Daniel Gustafsson)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove <application>adminpack</application> contrib extension
+ (Daniel Gustafsson)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This was used by now end-of-life <productname>pgAdmin III</productname>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This was used by now end-of-life <productname>pgAdmin
+ III</productname>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-20 [2b5154bea] Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow <link linkend="sql-alteroperator"><command>ALTER OPERATOR</command></link> to set more optimization attributes (Tommy Pavlicek)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow <link linkend="sql-alteroperator"><command>ALTER
+ OPERATOR</command></link> to set more optimization attributes
+ (Tommy Pavlicek)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful for extensions.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This is useful for extensions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-05 [c789f0f6c] dblink: Replace WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION with custom wait ev
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow extensions to define <link linkend="xfunc-addin-wait-events">custom wait events</link> (Masahiro Ikeda)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow extensions to define <link
+ linkend="xfunc-addin-wait-events">custom wait events</link>
+ (Masahiro Ikeda)
+ </para>
-<para>
-Custom wait events have been added to <application><xref linkend="postgres-fdw"/></application> and <application><xref linkend="dblink"/></application>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ Custom wait events have been added to <application><xref
+ linkend="postgres-fdw"/></application> and <application><xref
+ linkend="dblink"/></application>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2024-04-08 [13453eedd] Add pg_buffercache_evict() function for testing.
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <application><xref linkend="pgbuffercache"/></application> function <function>pg_buffercache_evict()</function> to allow shared buffer eviction (Palak Chaturvedi, Thomas Munro)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <application><xref linkend="pgbuffercache"/></application>
+ function <function>pg_buffercache_evict()</function> to allow shared
+ buffer eviction (Palak Chaturvedi, Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This is useful for testing.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This is useful for testing.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
<sect4 id="release-17-pgstatstatements">
<title><link linkend="pgstatstatements"><application>pg_stat_statements</application></link></title>
2023-09-28 [11c34b342] Show parameters of CALL as constants in pg_stat_statemen
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Replace <link linkend="sql-call"><command>CALL</command></link> parameters in <application>pg_stat_statements</application> with placeholders (Sami Imseih)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Replace <link linkend="sql-call"><command>CALL</command></link>
+ parameters in <application>pg_stat_statements</application> with
+ placeholders (Sami Imseih)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-07-27 [31de7e60d] Show savepoint names as constants in pg_stat_statements
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Replace savepoint names stored in <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> with placeholders (Greg Sabino Mullane)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Replace savepoint names stored in
+ <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> with placeholders
+ (Greg Sabino Mullane)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This greatly reduces the number of entries needed to record <link linkend="sql-savepoint"><command>SAVEPOINT</command></link>, <link linkend="sql-release-savepoint"><command>RELEASE SAVEPOINT</command></link>, and <link linkend="sql-rollback-to"><command>ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT</command></link> commands.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This greatly reduces the number of entries needed to record <link
+ linkend="sql-savepoint"><command>SAVEPOINT</command></link>,
+ <link linkend="sql-release-savepoint"><command>RELEASE
+ SAVEPOINT</command></link>, and <link
+ linkend="sql-rollback-to"><command>ROLLBACK TO
+ SAVEPOINT</command></link> commands.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-12 [638d42a3c] Show GIDs of two-phase commit commands as constants in p
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Replace the two-phase commit <acronym>GID</acronym>s stored in <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> with placeholders (Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Replace the two-phase commit <acronym>GID</acronym>s stored in
+ <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> with placeholders
+ (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This greatly reduces the number of entries needed to record <link linkend="sql-prepare-transaction"><command>PREPARE TRANSACTION</command></link>, <link linkend="sql-commit-prepared"><command>COMMIT PREPARED</command></link>, and <link linkend="sql-rollback-prepared"><command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</command></link>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ This greatly reduces the number of entries needed to record
+ <link linkend="sql-prepare-transaction"><command>PREPARE
+ TRANSACTION</command></link>, <link
+ linkend="sql-commit-prepared"><command>COMMIT
+ PREPARED</command></link>, and <link
+ linkend="sql-rollback-prepared"><command>ROLLBACK
+ PREPARED</command></link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-08-27 [bb45156f3] Show names of DEALLOCATE as constants in pg_stat_stateme
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Track <link linkend="sql-deallocate"><command>DEALLOCATE</command></link> in <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Michael Paquier)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Track <link
+ linkend="sql-deallocate"><command>DEALLOCATE</command></link>
+ in <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Dagfinn Ilmari
+ Mannsåker, Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
-<para>
-<command>DEALLOCATE</command> names are stored in <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> as placeholders.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>DEALLOCATE</command> names are stored in
+ <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> as placeholders.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-10-19 [5147ab1dd] pg_stat_statements: Add local_blk_{read|write}_time
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add local I/O block read/write timing statistics columns of <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add local I/O block read/write timing statistics columns of
+ <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
+ </para>
-<para>
-The new columns are <structfield>local_blk_read_time</structfield> and <structfield>local_blk_write_time</structfield>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new columns are <structfield>local_blk_read_time</structfield>
+ and <structfield>local_blk_write_time</structfield>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-09-08 [5a3423ad8] Add JIT deform_counter
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <acronym>JIT</acronym> deform_counter details to <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Dmitry Dolgov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <acronym>JIT</acronym> deform_counter details to
+ <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> (Dmitry Dolgov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-27 [dc9f8a798] Track statement entry timestamp in contrib/pg_stat_state
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add optional fourth argument (<literal>minmax_only</literal>) to <function>pg_stat_statements_reset()</function> to allow for the resetting of only min/max statistics (Andrei Zubkov)
-</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add optional fourth argument (<literal>minmax_only</literal>)
+ to <function>pg_stat_statements_reset()</function> to allow for
+ the resetting of only min/max statistics (Andrei Zubkov)
+ </para>
-<para>
-This argument defaults to <literal>false</literal>.
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ This argument defaults to <literal>false</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<!--
2023-11-27 [dc9f8a798] Track statement entry timestamp in contrib/pg_stat_state
-->
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname> columns <structfield>stats_since</structfield> and <structfield>minmax_stats_since</structfield> to track entry creation time and last min/max reset time (Andrei Zubkov)
-</para>
-</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add <structname>pg_stat_statements</structname>
+ columns <structfield>stats_since</structfield> and
+ <structfield>minmax_stats_since</structfield> to track entry
+ creation time and last min/max reset time (Andrei Zubkov)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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