On 26th of April, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:
Add transforms feature This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python. reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
On 5th of April, Simon Riggs committed patch:
Reduce lock levels of some trigger DDL and add FKs Reduce lock levels to ShareRowExclusive for the following SQL CREATE TRIGGER (but not DROP or ALTER) ALTER TABLE ENABLE TRIGGER ALTER TABLE DISABLE TRIGGER ALTER TABLE … ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY Original work by Simon Riggs, extracted and refreshed by Andreas Karlsson New test cases added by Andreas Karlsson Reviewed by Noah Misch, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
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On 31st of March, Bruce Momjian committed patch:
psql: add asciidoc output format Patch by Szymon Guz, adjustments by me Testing by Michael Paquier, Pavel Stehule
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On 27th of March, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:
Add stats for min, max, mean, stddev times to pg_stat_statements. The new fields are min_time, max_time, mean_time and stddev_time. Based on an original patch from Mitsumasa KONDO, modified by me. Reviewed by Petr Jelínek.
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On 26th of March, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:
Add support for index-only scans in GiST. This adds a new GiST opclass method, 'fetch', which is used to reconstruct the original Datum from the value stored in the index. Also, the 'canreturn' index AM interface function gains a new 'attno' argument. That makes it possible to use index-only scans on a multi-column index where some of the opclasses support index-only scans but some do not. This patch adds support in the box and point opclasses. Other opclasses can added later as follow-on patches (btree_gist would be particularly interesting). Anastasia Lubennikova, with additional fixes and modifications by me.
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On 23rd of March, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:
Add pg_rewind, for re-synchronizing a master server after failback. Earlier versions of this tool were available (and still are) on github. Thanks to Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila, and Satoshi Nagayasu for review.
On 22nd of March, Tom Lane committed patch:
Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance. Foreign tables can now be inheritance children, or parents. Much of the system was already ready for this, but we had to fix a few things of course, mostly in the area of planner and executor handling of row locks. As side effects of this, allow foreign tables to have NOT VALID CHECK constraints (and hence to accept ALTER ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT), and to accept ALTER SET STORAGE and ALTER SET WITH/WITHOUT OIDS. Continuing to disallow these things would've required bizarre and inconsistent special cases in inheritance behavior. Since foreign tables don't enforce CHECK constraints anyway, a NOT VALID one is a complete no-op, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't allow it. And it's possible that some FDWs might have use for SET STORAGE or SET WITH OIDS, though doubtless they will be no-ops for most. An additional change in support of this is that when a ModifyTable node has multiple target tables, they will all now be explicitly identified in EXPLAIN output, for example: Update on pt1 (cost=0.00..321.05 rows=3541 width=46) Update on pt1 Foreign Update on ft1 Foreign Update on ft2 Update on child3 -> Seq Scan on pt1 (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=46) -> Foreign Scan on ft1 (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46) -> Foreign Scan on ft2 (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46) -> Seq Scan on child3 (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=1200 width=46) This was done mainly to provide an unambiguous place to attach "Remote SQL" fields, but it is useful for inherited updates even when no foreign tables are involved. Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and Kyotaro Horiguchi, some additional hacking by me
On 20th of March, Andres Freund committed patch:
Use 128-bit math to accelerate some aggregation functions. On platforms where we support 128bit integers, use them to implement faster transition functions for sum(int8), avg(int8), var_*(int2/int4),stdev_*(int2/int4). Where not supported continue to use numeric as a transition type. In some synthetic benchmarks this has been shown to provide significant speedups. Bumps catversion. Discussion: 544BB5F1.50709@proxel.se Author: Andreas Karlsson Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund, Oskari Saarenmaa, David Rowley
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On 18th of March, Alvaro Herrera committed patch:
array_offset() and array_offsets() These functions return the offset position or positions of a value in an array. Author: Pavel Stěhule Reviewed by: Jim Nasby
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One of my clients is upgrading some servers. The procedure we have took some time to get to current state, and we found some potential problems, so decided to write more about it.