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Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-08-23T16:36:01Z
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  1. Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.

  2. doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"

  3. initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.

  4. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author

  5. doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item

  6. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item

  7. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention

  8. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item

  9. doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization

  10. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit

  11. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text

  12. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge

  13. doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments

  14. doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items

  15. doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item

  16. doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements

  17. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list

  18. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail

  19. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates

  20. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits

  21. Allow logical decoding on standbys

  22. Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.

  23. Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password

  24. Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect

  25. initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.

  26. Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.

  27. Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.

  28. Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()

  29. Make materialized views participate in predicate locking

  30. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management

  31. Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.

On Tue, 2023-08-22 at 22:23 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I notice that this item is still listed:
> > 
> >  * Determine the ICU default locale from the environment (Jeff
> > Davis)
> > 
> > But that was reverted as part of 2535c74b1a.
> 
> The original commit is:
> 
>         Author: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>
>         2023-03-10 [c45dc7ffb] initdb: derive encoding from locale
> for ICU; similar to
> 
> and I don't see that reverted by 2535c74b1a.  Is that a problem?

c45dc7ffb causes initdb to choose the encoding based on the environment
for ICU just like libc, and that was not reverted, so in v16:

  $ export LANG=en_US
  $ initdb -D data --locale-provider=icu --icu-locale=en
  ...
  The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "LATIN1".

Whereas previously in v15 that would cause an error like:

  initdb: error: encoding mismatch
  initdb: detail: The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding
that the selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match...

"Determine the ICU default locale from the environment" to me refers to
what happened in 27b62377b4, where initdb would select an ICU locale if
one was not provided. 2535c74b1a reverted that, so in v16:

  $ initdb -D data --locale-provider=icu
  initdb: error: ICU locale must be specified

Just like in v15.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis