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1 About This Document

Source chapter 1 for PostgreSQL 11.
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1.1 Purpose

The purpose of this document is to provide information of the major new features of PostgreSQL 11.

1.2 Audience

This document is written for engineers who already have knowledge of PostgreSQL, such as installation, basic management, etc.

1.3 Scope

This document describes the major difference between PostgreSQL 10 (10.4) and PostgreSQL 11 (11.0). As a general rule, this document examines the features of behavior change. This document does not describe and verify all new features. In particular, the following new features are not included.

Bug fix

Performance improvement by changing internal behavior

Improvement of regression test

Operability improvement by psql command tab input

Improvement of pgbench command

Improvement of documentation, modify typo in the source code

Refactoring without a change in behavior

1.4 Software Version

The contents of this document have been verified for the following versions and platforms.

SoftwareVersion
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL 10.4 (for comparison) PostgreSQL 11 (11.0) (October 15, 2018 21:15:55)
Operating SystemRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 4 (x86-64)
Configure option–with-llvm –with-python –with-perl
Table 1 Version

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1.5 Question, comment and Responsibility

The contents of this document are not an official opinion of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Japan Co, Ltd. The author and affiliation company do not take any responsibility for the problem caused by the mistake of contents. If you have any comments for this document, please contact to Noriyoshi Shinoda

(noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com) Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Japan Co, Ltd.

1.6 Notation

This document contains examples of the execution of the command or SQL statement. Execution examples are described according to the following rules:

NotationDescription
#Shell prompt for Linux root user
$Shell prompt for Linux general user
BoldUser input string
postgres=#psql command prompt for PostgreSQL administrator
postgres=>psql command prompt for PostgreSQL general user
UnderlineImportant output items
Table 2 Examples notation

The syntax is described in the following rules:

NotationDescription
ItalicReplaced by the name of the object which users use, or the other syntax
[ ]Indicate that it can be omitted
{ A | B }Indicate that it is possible to select A or B
…General syntax, it is the same as the previous version
Table 3 Syntax rules