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Do a final round of updates on the 9.6 release notes.

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Set release date, document a few recent commits, do one last pass of
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application.
</para>
<para>
By default, the <structname>pg_config</structname> view can be read
only by superusers.
</para>
<table>
<title><structname>pg_config</> Columns</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
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</para>
<para>
The <structname>pg_file_settings</structname> view can be read only by
superusers.
By default, the <structname>pg_file_settings</structname> view can be read
only by superusers.
</para>
<table>

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<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2016-??-??</simpara>
<simpara>Current as of 2016-08-27 (commit b9fe6cbc8)</simpara>
<simpara>2016-09-29</simpara>
</note>
<sect2>
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<listitem>
<para>
Substantial performance improvements, especially in the area of
scalability on multi-<literal>CPU</>-socket servers
scalability on multi-<acronym>CPU</>-socket servers
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Write <option>--no-psqlrc</option> (or its
abbreviation <option>-X</option>) explicitly to obtain the old
behavior. Scripts modified this way will still work with old
behavior. Scripts so modified will still work with old
versions of <application>psql</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -371,6 +370,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
2016-06-09 [c9ce4a1c6] Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology.
2016-06-16 [75be66464] Invent min_parallel_relation_size GUC to replace a hard-
2016-08-16 [f85b1a841] Disable parallel query by default.
2016-09-15 [72ce78162] Make min_parallel_relation_size's default value platform
-->
<para>
Parallel queries (Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, David Rowley,
@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
<!--
2016-04-08 [071180377] Use quicksort, not replacement selection, for external s
2016-03-17 [0011c0091] Improve memory management for external sorts.
2016-09-06 [96ba40c0f] Guard against possible memory allocation botch in batchm
-->
<para>
Improve sorting performance by using quicksort, not replacement
@ -693,7 +694,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
<literal>(a,b) REFERENCES r (x,y)</>, then a <literal>WHERE</>
condition such as <literal>t.a = r.x AND t.b = r.y</> cannot
select more than one <literal>r</> row per <literal>t</> row.
The planner formerly considered <literal>AND</> conditions
The planner formerly considered these <literal>AND</> conditions
to be independent and would often drastically misestimate
selectivity as a result. Now it compares the <literal>WHERE</>
conditions to applicable foreign key constraints and produces
@ -731,7 +732,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
containing only already-frozen tuples are identified in the table's
visibility map, and can be skipped by vacuum even when doing
transaction wraparound prevention. This should greatly reduce the
cost of maintaining large tables containing mostly-unchanged data.
cost of maintaining large tables containing mostly-unchanging data.
</para>
<para>
@ -872,7 +873,8 @@ and many others in the same vein
from where it will be flushed to physical storage in due time.
Many operating systems are not smart about managing this and allow
large amounts of dirty data to accumulate before deciding to flush
it all at once, leading to long delays for new I/O requests.
it all at once, causing long delays for new I/O requests until the
flushing finishes.
This change attempts to alleviate this problem by explicitly
requesting data flushes after a configurable interval.
</para>
@ -1209,7 +1211,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
2016-04-08 [34c33a1f0] Add BSD authentication method.
-->
<para>
Add a <link linkend="auth-bsd"><literal>bsd</> authentication
Add a <link linkend="auth-bsd"><acronym>BSD</> authentication
method</link> to allow use of
the <systemitem class="osname">BSD</> Authentication service for
<productname>PostgreSQL</> client authentication (Marisa Emerson)
@ -1300,6 +1302,16 @@ and many others in the same vein
<listitem>
<!--
2016-09-11 [f2dba881a] Raise max setting of checkpoint_timeout to 1d
-->
<para>
Raise the maximum allowed value
of <xref linkend="guc-checkpoint-timeout"> to 24 hours (Simon Riggs)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2015-09-08 [1aba62ec6] Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency
-->
<para>
@ -1346,9 +1358,9 @@ and many others in the same vein
<para>
Making a distinction between these settings is no longer useful,
and is part of a planned future simplification of replication
setup. The old names are still accepted but are converted
internally.
and merging them is a step towards a planned future simplification
of replication setup. The old names are still accepted but are
converted to <literal>replica</> internally.
</para>
</listitem>
@ -1375,7 +1387,7 @@ and many others in the same vein
-->
<para>
Allow the server's <acronym>SSL</> key file to have group read
access if owned by root (Christoph Berg) <!-- Windows handling? -->
access if it is owned by <literal>root</> (Christoph Berg)
</para>
<para>
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<para>
Previously, such cases failed if the same target column was
mentioned more than once, e.g., <literal>INSERT INTO tab (x[1],
x[2]) VALUES ...</>.
x[2]) VALUES (...)</>.
</para>
</listitem>
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2016-03-23 [473b93287] Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD
-->
<para>
Introduce <command>CREATE ACCESS METHOD</> to allow extensions
to create index access methods (Alexander Korotkov, Petr
Jel&iacute;nek)
Introduce <link linkend="sql-create-access-method"><command>CREATE
ACCESS METHOD</></> to allow extensions to create index access
methods (Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jel&iacute;nek)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Formerly, many security-sensitive functions contained hard-wired
checks that would throw an error if they were called by a
non-superuser role. This forced the use of superuser roles for
non-superuser. This forced the use of superuser roles for
some relatively pedestrian tasks. The hard-wired error checks
are now gone in favor of making <application>initdb</> revoke the
default public <literal>EXECUTE</> privilege on these functions.
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that can be used to grant access to what were previously
superuser-only functions (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
Currently the only such role is <literal>pg_signal_backend</>,
but more are expected to be added in future.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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Allow <link linkend="textsearch-statistics"><function>ts_stat()</></>
and <link linkend="textsearch-update-triggers"><function>tsvector_update_trigger()</></>
to operate on values that are of types binary-compatible with the
expected argument type, not only that argument type; for example
expected argument type, not just exactly that type; for example
allow <type>citext</> where <type>text</> is expected (Teodor
Sigaev)
</para>
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-09-08 [31eb14504] Allow pg_dump to dump non-extension members of an extens
-->
<para>
Allow <application>pg_dump</> to dump non-extension-owned objects
that are within an extension-owned schema
(Mart&iacute;n Marqu&eacute;s)
</para>
<para>
Previously such objects were ignored because they were mistakenly
assumed to belong to the extension owning their schema.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2016-04-06 [3b3fcc4ee] pg_dump: Add table qualifications to some tags
-->
<para>
In <application>pg_dump</>, include the table name in object
In <application>pg_dump</> output, include the table name in object
tags for object types that are only uniquely named per-table
(for example, triggers) (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
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<listitem>
<!--
2016-03-19 [7bafffea6] pgbench: Allow changing weights for scripts
2016-09-21 [970300faa] Print test parameters like "foo: 123", and results like
-->
<para>
Allow changing the selection probabilities (weights) for scripts
@ -3011,6 +3045,7 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and PL/pgSQL
<listitem>
<!--
2015-12-17 [c4a8812cf] Use just one standalone-backend session for initdb's pos
2016-08-30 [d9720e437] Fix initdb misbehavior when user mis-enters superuser pa
-->
<para>
Speed up <application>initdb</> by using just one
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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
2016-09-15 [fcd93e4af] Support OpenSSL 1.1.0.
2016-09-15 [9895818d5] Fix building with LibreSSL.
-->
<para>
Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Andreas Karlsson, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>