Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>

To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-05-23T22:27:23Z

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Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.
- 151c22deee66 17.0 cited
doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"
- c729642bd760 16.0 cited
initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.
- 2535c74b1a61 16.0 cited
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author
- b9e3f8005c99 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item
- e6a254c0d4af 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item
- 409d24485cbe 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention
- f7c16a120cfa 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item
- 0bcb3ca3b95b 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization
- 5a6464096622 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit
- 9e28b83ae6fa 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text
- 503b0556d96f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge
- 46ba86cd32dc 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments
- 5c2c59ba0b5f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items
- ad5406246bff 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item
- a817edbf6f30 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements
- 5cb54fc310fb 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list
- 60751aa50313 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail
- de7c3fd34e0f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates
- c822358a256c 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits
- 30579d23b226 16.0 landed
Allow logical decoding on standbys
- 0fdab27ad68a 16.0 cited
Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.
- 029dea882a7a 16.0 cited
Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password
- 419a8dd8142a 16.0 cited
Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect
- 5c1b6628075a 16.0 cited
initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.
- c45dc7ffbba2 16.0 cited
Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.
- 78ee60ed84bb 16.0 cited
Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.
- 3ea7329c9a79 16.0 cited
Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()
- 13e0d7a60385 16.0 cited
Make materialized views participate in predicate locking
- 43351557d0d2 16.0 cited
Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management
- c6e0fe1f2a08 16.0 cited
Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.
- e3ce2de09d81 16.0 cited

On 5/23/23 4:37 PM, David Rowley wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 07:05, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> * Parallel execution of queries that use `FULL` and `OUTER` joins
> 
> I think this should be `RIGHT` joins rather than `OUTER` joins.
> 
> LEFT joins have been parallelizable I think for a long time now.

I had grabbed it from this line:

   Allow outer and full joins to be performed in parallel (Melanie 
Plageman, Thomas Munro)

If we want to be specific on RIGHT joins, I can update it in the release 
announcement, but it may be too late for the release notes (at least for 
beta 1).

Thanks,

Jonathan