Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Adrien NAYRAT <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-10-10T23:57:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:13:56PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:06:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:55:33PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Then you need to start a new thread and argue that we need to include
> > more optimizer items in the release notes.  My point was that I was
> > using the existing criteria, and if we want to change it, we have to do
> > it consistently, not just jam in one item.
> > 
> > Once we agree we can go back and see what we missed in PG 11.
> 
> Years ago someone said they wanted more optimizer items in the release
> notes, so I did it, and then many more people said they didn't want it
> --- I don't want to repeat the experience.

Thinking some more, if this is this _only_ optimizer improvement you
think I missed, let's just add it and call it done, and we will not
re-litigate the criteria used for the release notes.

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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.