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Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Adrien NAYRAT <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-10-10T19:55:33Z
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Hi,

On 2018-10-08 21:28:02 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct  8, 2018 at 05:44:32PM +0200, Adrien NAYRAT wrote:
> > On 10/8/18 5:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >Uh, where are you looking?  We don't rebuild the beta docs until the
> > >next beta release, but you can see the changes in the developer docs:
> > >
> > >	https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-11.html
> > 
> > I looked in doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml
> > 
> > And even on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-11.html I
> > don't see mention of 1f6d515a67
> 
> I did not think there was sufficient interest in adding this item.  If
> we add it we need to discuss adding all similar items.

Several people argued for introducing it, you're the only one that was
against it. Adrien, Amit Kapila, Peter Geoghegan, and I all said we
think that kind of thing should be included.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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.