On 4th of January 2024, Tom Lane committed patch:
In plpgsql, allow %TYPE and %ROWTYPE to be followed by array decoration. This provides the useful ability to declare a variable that is an array of the type of some other variable or some table column. Quan Zongliang, Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec4523e1-9e7e-f3ef-f9ce-bafd680ad6f6@yeah.net
On 4th of January 2024, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:
ALTER TABLE command to change generation expression This adds a new ALTER TABLE subcommand ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION that changes the generation expression of a generated column. The syntax is not standard but was adapted from other SQL implementations. This command causes a table rewrite, using the usual ALTER TABLE mechanisms. The implementation is similar to and makes use of some of the infrastructure of the SET DATA TYPE subcommand (for example, rebuilding constraints and indexes afterwards). The new command requires a new pass in AlterTablePass, and the ADD COLUMN pass had to be moved earlier so that combinations of ADD COLUMN and SET EXPRESSION can work. Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b94yyJeGA-5M951_Lr+KfZokOp-2kXicpmEhi5FXhBeTog@mail.gmail.com
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On 20th of December 2023, Robert Haas committed patch:
Add support for incremental backup.
To take an incremental backup, you use the new replication command
UPLOAD_MANIFEST to upload the manifest for the prior backup. This
prior backup could either be a full backup or another incremental
backup. You then use BASE_BACKUP with the INCREMENTAL option to take
the backup. pg_basebackup now has an --incremental=PATH_TO_MANIFEST
option to trigger this behavior.
An incremental backup is like a regular full backup except that
some relation files are replaced with files with names like
INCREMENTAL.${ORIGINAL_NAME}, and the backup_label file contains
additional lines identifying it as an incremental backup. The new
pg_combinebackup tool can be used to reconstruct a data directory
from a full backup and a series of incremental backups.
Patch by me. Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub
Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Thanks especially to
Jakub for incredibly helpful and extensive testing.
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