Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-11T21:04:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:28:57PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> > * Suggest replacement sort item be phrased as: "Remove the
> > configuration parameter replacement_sort_tuples. <newline> The
> > replacement selection sort algorithm is no longer used."
> 
> Also, it should be moved to "Migration to Version 11", since the only
> issue here is compatibility with older versions.

Done.

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Commits

  1. doc: update PG 11 release notes

  2. Fix misspelled pg_trgm contrib name in PostgreSQL 11 release notes

  3. Doc: clarify release note text about v11's new window function features.

  4. Improve wording of release notes item

  5. Fix typos in release notes

  6. Doc: preliminary list of PG11 major features.

  7. Make numeric power() handle NaNs according to the modern POSIX spec.

  8. Various improvements of skipping index scan during vacuum technics

  9. Revert back-branch changes in power()'s behavior for NaN inputs.

  10. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on more platforms.

  11. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on some platforms.

  12. Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possible

  13. Rewrite the code that applies scan/join targets to paths.

  14. Postpone generate_gather_paths for topmost scan/join rel.

  15. Add casts from jsonb

  16. Make plpgsql use its DTYPE_REC code paths for composite-type variables.

  17. Don't allow VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE VERBOSE.

  18. Pass InitPlan values to workers via Gather (Merge).

  19. Account for the effect of lossy pages when costing bitmap scans.

  20. Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.

  21. Rearm statement_timeout after each executed query.

  22. Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.