Update 9.4 release notes with feedback from the hackers list
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Remove system column pg_class.reltoastidxid (Michael Paquier)
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Use the last specified recovery_target if multiple are specified (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Instead use normal index access methods.
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Remove system column pg_class.reltoastidxid (Michael Paquier)
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Allow background workers to be dynamically registered, started and terminated (Robert Haas)
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worker_spi_launch() in worker_spi shows an example of its use.
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Allow dynamic allocation of shared memory segments (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila)
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Improve SSL renegotiation handling (Álvaro Herrera)
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Improve SSL renegotiation handling (Álvaro Herrera)
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Allow background workers to be dynamically started and terminated (Robert Haas)
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worker_spi_launch() in worker_spi shows an example if its use.
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Allow dynamic allocation of shared memory segments (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila)
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Fix race condition in B-tree page deletion (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Make the handling of interrupted B-tree page splits more robust (Heikki Linnakangas)
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This avoids later freezing overhead.
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This avoids the need to freeze the tuples in the future.
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Improve speed of accessing many sequence values (David Rowley)
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Improve speed of accesessing many different sequences in the same session (David Rowley)
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Use memory barriers to avoid some spinlock use (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Auto-resize the catalog cache (Heikki Linnakangas)
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This reduces memory consumption for backends accessing only a few tables, and improves performance for backend accessing many
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Add huge_pages configuration parameter to attempt to use huge translation look-aside buffer (TLB) pages on Linux (Christian Kruse,
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Add huge_pages configuration parameter to enable huge translation look-aside buffer (TLB) pages on Linux (Christian Kruse,
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Richard Poole, Abhijit Menon-Sen)
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Add configuration variable data_checksums to report whether data page checksums are enabled (Bernd Helmle)
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Add superuser-only session_preload_libraries configuration parameter to load libraries at session start (Peter Eisentraut)
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Add superuser-only session_preload_libraries configuration parameter to load libraries at session start (Peter Eisentraut)
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pg_switch_xlog() now clears the trailing unused space in the WAL file (Heikki Linnakangas)
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pg_switch_xlog() now clears the trailing unused space in the WAL file (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Description? Logical only?
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primary that are needed by standby servers.
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Improve return codes from external recovery commands (Peter Eisentraut)
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Reduce spinlock contention during WAL replay (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Write WAL records of running transactions every 15 seconds ? (Andres Freund)
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Report failure return codes from external recovery commands (Peter Eisentraut)
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Write WAL records of running transactions more frequently (Andres Freund)
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<title>Logical Change-Set Encoding</title>
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<title>Logical Change-Set Extraction</title>
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The new Logical change-set extraction feature allows database
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changes to be optionally recorded in <emphasis>logical</> format
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in the WAL. This format can be easily processed by external tools.
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Allow security barrier views to be automatically updateable (Dean Rasheed)
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Add structured (non-text) data type (jsonb) for storing JSON data (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev,
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Improve the way tuples are frozen, to preserve forensic information ((Robert Haas, Andres Freund)
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