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6565 <listitem>
6666 <para>
67- New FILLFACTOR support for tables and indexes
67+ New<literal> FILLFACTOR</literal> support for tables and indexes
6868 </para>
6969 </listitem>
7070
7171 <listitem>
7272 <para>
73- Many query optimization improvements
73+ Many query optimization improvements, including support for
74+ reordering outer joins
7475 </para>
7576 </listitem>
7677
@@ -94,8 +95,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
9495
9596 <listitem>
9697 <para>
97- Query enhancements including RETURNING values, multi-VALUES,
98- support, and self-joins for DELETE
98+ Query enhancements including <literal>RETURNING</literal>
99+ values, multi-<literal>VALUES</literal>, support, and
100+ self-joins for <command>DELETE</command>
99101 </para>
100102 </listitem>
101103
@@ -107,13 +109,15 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
107109
108110 <listitem>
109111 <para>
110- Index creation without blocking INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
112+ Index creation without blocking concurrent
113+ <command>INSERT</>/<command>UPDATE</>/<command>DELETE</>
114+ commands
111115 </para>
112116 </listitem>
113117
114118 <listitem>
115119 <para>
116- COPY TO support for SELECT statements
120+ <command> COPY TO</command> support for<command> SELECT</command> statements
117121 </para>
118122 </listitem>
119123
@@ -697,14 +701,14 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
697701 <listitem>
698702 <para>
699703 Improve performance of statistics monitoring, especially
700- <literal >stats_command_string</> (Tom, Bruce)
704+ <varname >stats_command_string</> (Tom, Bruce)
701705 </para>
702706
703707 <para>
704- This releasesets <varname>stats_command_string</>to
705- <literal>on</> by default, now that its overhead is minimal.
706- This means <literal>pg_stat_activity</>now will show all
707- active queries by default.
708+ This releaseenables <varname>stats_command_string</>by
709+ default, now that its overhead is minimal. This means
710+ <literal>pg_stat_activity</> willnow show all active queries
711+ by default.
708712 </para>
709713 </listitem>
710714
@@ -1116,10 +1120,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
11161120 </para>
11171121
11181122 <para>
1119- This allow inheritance to be added and removed dynamically,
1120- rather than just at table creation and destruction. This
1121- is very valuable for table partitioning using constraint
1122- exclusion.
1123+ This allow inheritance to be adjusted dynamically, rather than
1124+ just at table creation and destruction. This is very valuable
1125+ for table partitioning using constraint exclusion.
11231126 </para>
11241127 </listitem>
11251128
@@ -1306,8 +1309,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
13061309
13071310 <listitem>
13081311 <para>
1309- Interval computation improvements (Michael Glaesemann,
1310- Bruce)
1312+ Interval computation improvements (Michael Glaesemann, Bruce)
13111313 </para>
13121314 </listitem>
13131315
@@ -1390,7 +1392,7 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
13901392
13911393 <listitem>
13921394 <para>
1393- Properly enforce <literal>DOMAIN</> check constraints
1395+ Properly enforcedomain <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints
13941396 everywhere (Neil, Tom)
13951397 </para>
13961398
@@ -1893,7 +1895,9 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
18931895 </para>
18941896
18951897 <para>
1896- Rtree has been re-implemented using <acronym>GIST</>.
1898+ Rtree has been re-implemented using <acronym>GIST</>. Among
1899+ other differences, this means that rtree indexes now have
1900+ support for crash recovery via write-ahead logging (WAL).
18971901 </para>
18981902 </listitem>
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