Waiting for 9.6 – Add CASCADE support for CREATE EXTENSION.

On 3rd of October, Andres Freund committed patch:

Add CASCADE support for CREATE EXTENSION.
 
Without CASCADE, if an extension has an unfullfilled dependency on
another extension, CREATE EXTENSION ERRORs out with "required extension
... is not installed". That is annoying, especially when that dependency
is an implementation detail of the extension, rather than something the
extension's user can make sense of.
 
In addition to CASCADE this also includes a small set of regression
tests around CREATE EXTENSION.
 
Author: Petr Jelinek, editorialized by Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Jeff Janes
Discussion: <a class="text" href="/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=object;h=557E0520">557E0520</a>.3040800@2ndquadrant.com

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Waiting for 9.6 – Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency

On 8th of September, Alvaro Herrera committed patch:

Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency
 
Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have
wildly different I/O characteristics from others.  Setting different
effective_io_concurrency parameters for those has been measured to
improve performance.
 
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed by: Andres Freund

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Waiting for 9.6 – Allow usage of huge maintenance_work_mem for GIN build.

On 2nd of September, Teodor Sigaev committed patch:

Allow usage of huge maintenance_work_mem for GIN build.
 
Currently, in-memory posting list during GIN build process is limited 1GB
because of using repalloc. The patch replaces call of repalloc to repalloc_huge.
It increases limit of posting list from 180 millions
(1GB / sizeof(ItemPointerData)) to 4 billions limited by maxcount/count fields
in GinEntryAccumulator and subsequent calls. Check added.
 
Also, fix accounting of allocatedMemory during build to prevent integer
overflow with maintenance_work_mem > 4GB.
 
Robert Abraham <robert.abraham86@googlemail.com> with additions by me

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add IF NOT EXISTS processing to ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN

On 30th of July, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

Add IF NOT EXISTS processing to ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
 
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, reviewed by Payal Singh, Alvaro Herrera and
Michael Paquier.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add new function pg_notification_queue_usage.

On 17th of July, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add new function pg_notification_queue_usage.
 
This tells you what fraction of NOTIFY's queue is currently filled.
 
Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Merlin Moncure and Gurjeet Singh.  A few
further tweaks by me.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add psql PROMPT variable showing the pid of the connected to backend.

On 7th of July, Andres Freund committed patch:

Add psql PROMPT variable showing the pid of the connected to backend.
 
The substitution for the pid is %p.
 
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=object;h=116262CF971C844FB6E793F8809B51C6E99D48">116262CF971C844FB6E793F8809B51C6E99D48</a>@BPXM02GP.gisp.nec.co.jp

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add psql \ev and \sv commands for editing and showing view definitions.

On 3rd of July, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add psql \ev and \sv commands for editing and showing view definitions.
 
These are basically just like the \ef and \sf commands for functions.
 
Petr Korobeinikov, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke, some changes by me

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Waiting for 9.5 – Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it to add new values

On 1st of June, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it to add new values
 
The function is given a fourth parameter, which defaults to true. When
this parameter is true, if the last element of the path is missing
in the original json, jsonb_set creates it in the result and assigns it
the new value. If it is false then the function does nothing unless all
elements of the path are present, including the last.
 
Based on some original code from Dmitry Dolgov, heavily modified by me.
 
Catalog version bumped.

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Waiting for 9.5 – Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.

On 16th of May, Andres Freund committed patch:

Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.
 
This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different
GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns
grouped by in other sets set to NULL.
 
This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate
query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise,
grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over
the underlying data.
 
The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting
for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one
pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort &
aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by
the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data.
 
The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using
hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting
was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of
implementation.
 
Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the
chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor
nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node
itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle
having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying
nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit
memory usage.  The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each
phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional
data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way
to describe aggregation and sorting.  The first (and possibly only) sort
step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains
similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple,
avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to
avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means.
 
A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar
ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions
named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the
cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a
reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY
cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function
cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might
be, the function name has to be quoted.
 
Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change.
 
Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas
    Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule
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