Waiting for 9.6 – Support parallel aggregation.

On 21st of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Support parallel aggregation.
 
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the
transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial
results to produce the final answer.
 
David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi.  Reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Directly modify foreign tables.

On 18th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Directly modify foreign tables.
 
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.
 
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.

On 16th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.
 
Vik Fearing, reviewed by Stéphane Schildknecht and me, and revised
slightly by me.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add simple VACUUM progress reporting.

On 15th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add simple VACUUM progress reporting. 
 
There's a lot more that could be done here yet - in particular, this
reports only very coarse-grained information about the index vacuuming
phase - but even as it stands, the new pg_stat_progress_vacuum can
tell you quite a bit about what a long-running vacuum is actually
doing.
 
Amit Langote and Robert Haas, based on earlier work by Vinayak Pokale
and Rahila Syed.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Tsvector editing functions

On 11th of March, Teodor Sigaev committed patch:

Tsvector editing functions
 
Adds several tsvector editting function: convert tsvector to/from text array,
set weight for given lexemes, delete lexeme(s), unnest, filter lexemes
with given weights
 
Author: Stas Kelvich with some editorization by me
Reviewers: Tomas Vondram, Teodor Sigaev

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add a generic command progress reporting facility.

On 9th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add a generic command progress reporting facility.
 
Using this facility, any utility command can report the target relation
upon which it is operating, if there is one, and up to 10 64-bit
counters; the intent of this is that users should be able to figure out
what a utility command is doing without having to resort to ugly hacks
like attaching strace to a backend.
 
As a demonstration, this adds very crude reporting to lazy vacuum; we
just report the target relation and nothing else.  A forthcoming patch
will make VACUUM report a bunch of additional data that will make this
much more interesting.  But this gets the basic framework in place.
 
Vinayak Pokale, Rahila Syed, Amit Langote, Robert Haas, reviewed by
Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jim Nasby, Thom Brown, Masahiko Sawada, Fujii Masao,
and Masanori Oyama.

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