(Jeff Davis)
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2025-05-07 [acea3fc49] pg_dumpall: Add - -sequence-data.
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Add pg_dump and pg_dumpall option --sequence-data to dump sequence data that would normally be excluded (Nathan Bossart)
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Add pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore options --statistics-only, --no-statistics, --no-data, and --no-schema (Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis)
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Add option --no-policies to disable row level security policy processing in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore (Nikolay Samokhvalov)
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<para>
This is useful for migrating to systems with different policies.
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    </sect4>

    <sect4 id="release-18-pgupgrade">
     <title><link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link></title>

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2025-03-18 [c9d502eb6] Update guidance for running vacuumdb after pg_upgrade.
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2025-04-30 [d5f1b6a75] Further adjust guidance for running vacuumdb after pg_up
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2025-02-20 [1fd1bd871] Transfer statistics during pg_upgrade.
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Allow pg_upgrade to preserve optimizer statistics (Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis, Nathan Bossart)
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<para>
Extended statistics are not preserved.  Also add pg_upgrade option --no-statistics to disable statistics preservation.
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2024-09-16 [6d3d2e8e5] pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving relation information.
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2024-09-16 [7baa36de5] pg_upgrade: Parallelize subscription check.
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2024-09-16 [46cad8b31] pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving loadable libraries.
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2024-09-16 [6ab8f27bc] pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving extension updates.
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2024-09-16 [bbf83cab9] pg_upgrade: Parallelize data type checks.
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2024-09-16 [9db3018cf] pg_upgrade: Parallelize contrib/isn check.
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2024-09-16 [c34eabfbb] pg_upgrade: Parallelize postfix operator check.
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2024-09-16 [f93f5f7b9] pg_upgrade: Parallelize WITH OIDS check.
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Allow pg_upgrade to process database checks in parallel (Nathan Bossart)
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