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Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Huong Dangminh <huo-dangminh@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Akio Iwaasa <aki-iwaasa@vt.jp.nec.com>
Date: 2018-05-15T19:44:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 06:40:18AM +0000, Huong Dangminh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > From: David Rowley [mailto:david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:01 PM
> > To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
> > Cc: Đặng Minh Hướng <kakalot49@gmail.com>; PostgreSQL-development
> > <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> > Subject: Re: Postgres 11 release notes
> > 
> > On 15 May 2018 at 08:28, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > >         Consistently return <literal>NaN</literal> for
> > >         <literal>NaN</literal> inputs to <function>power()</literal>
> > >         on older platforms (Dang Minh Huong)
> > 
> > While I'm not in favour of removing Dang's credit here, technically this
> > patch was Tom's. The code added in float.c by Dang's patch
> > (61b200e2f) was effectively reverted by 6bdf1303.  Dang's regression tests
> > remain, so should also be credited along with Tom.
> 
> Thanks David, I agreed.
> Also 6bdf1303 should be included like below,
> 
> <!--
>  Branch: master [6bdf1303b] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN
> +Branch: master [61b200e2f] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN
>  -->
>  
>         <para>
>          Consistently return <literal>NaN</literal> for
>          <literal>NaN</literal> inputs to <function>power()</function>
> -        on older platforms (Dang Minh Huong)
> +        on older platforms (Tom Lane, Dang Minh Huong)
>         </para>

OK, changed, thanks.

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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.