Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.
I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2012-??-??</simpara>
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<simpara>CURRENT AS OF 2012-05-09</simpara>
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<simpara>CURRENT AS OF 2012-08-21</simpara>
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</note>
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<sect2>
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Remove <acronym>GUC</acronym> <varname>wal_sender_delay</>,
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as it is no longer needed (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The new "latch" capability made this setting unnecessary.
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</para>
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<listitem>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improve performance of buffer pool scans that occur when tables or
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databases are dropped (Jeff Janes, Simon Riggs)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improve performance of checkpoint process's fsync-request queue
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when many tables are being dropped or truncated (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect4>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow backends to detect postmaster death via a pipe read failure,
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rather than polling (Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
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Allow the bgwriter, walwriter, checkpointer, <link
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linkend="monitoring-stats">statistics collector</link>, log
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collector, and archiver background processes to sleep more
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efficiently during periods of inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The wait events are internally called "latches".
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow the <link linkend="pg-stat-bgwriter-view">bgwriter</link>,
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<link linkend="guc-wal-writer-delay">walwriter</link>, <link
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linkend="monitoring-stats">statistics collector</link>, archiver,
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and checkpointer to sleep more efficiently during periods of
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inactivity (Peter Geoghegan, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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This reduces <acronym>CPU</acronym> wake-ups, which dramatically
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reduces power consumption on idle servers.
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This series of changes reduces the frequency of process wake-ups when
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there is nothing to do, dramatically reducing power consumption on
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idle servers.
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</para>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Account for set-returning functions in <command>SELECT</> target
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lists when setting rowcount estimates (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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<sect5>
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This also allows a table to be created whose schema matches a view.
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix <command>CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...)</command> to avoid index name
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conflicts when copying index comments (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect4>
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<para>
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Add support for privileges on date types (Peter Eisentraut)
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Add support for privileges on data types (Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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<para>
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This adds support for the <acronym>SQL</>-conforming
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<literal>USAGE</> privilege on types and domains. The intent is
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to be able restrict which users can create dependencies on types,
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which restricts the way in which owners can alter types.
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to be able to restrict which users can create dependencies on types,
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since such dependencies limit the owner's ability to alter the type.
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously only the superuser could use these functions.
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Previously only superusers could use these functions.
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</para>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Remove support for Python 2.2 (Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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</sect4>
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make <application>pg_dump</> emit more useful dependency
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information (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The dependency links included in archive-format dumps were formerly
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of very limited use, because they frequently referenced objects that
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appeared nowhere in the dump. Now they represent actual dependencies
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(possibly indirect) among the dumped objects.
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</para>
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<para>
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Improve <application>pg_dump</>'s performance when dumping many
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database objects (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect4>
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<para>
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Remove dead ports (Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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<para>
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The following platforms are no longer considered supported: dgux,
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nextstep, sunos4, svr4, ultrix4, univel, bsdi.
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</para>
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<para>
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Add support for building with <link linkend="install-windows">MS
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improve the latch facility to include detection of postmaster death
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(Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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This eliminates one of the main reasons that background processes
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formerly had to wake up to poll for events.
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Use C flexible array members, where supported (Peter Eisentraut)
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<para>
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Remove dead ports (Peter Eisentraut)
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</para>
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<para>
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The removed ports are: dgux, nextstep, sunos4, svr4, ultrix4,
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univel, bsdi.
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Support Linux's <filename>/proc/self/oom_score_adj</> API (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Modules</title>
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<title>Additional Modules</title>
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<para>
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Deprecate use of <literal>GLOBAL</> and <literal>LOCAL</> in
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<command>CREATE TEMP TABLE</> (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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<productname>PostgreSQL</> has long treated these keyword as no-ops,
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and continues to do so; but in future they might mean what the SQL
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standard says they mean, so applications should avoid using them.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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