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Re: PG 12 draft release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-05-13T03:52:51Z
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  1. doc: PG 12 relnotes: update wording on truncate/vacuum item

  2. docs: PG 12 relnotes, update btree items

  3. doc: PG 12 relnotes, list added snowball/FTS languages

  4. doc: PG 12 relnotes, merge new SQL partition function items

  5. docs: PG 12 release notes, support functions

  6. docs: PG 12 relnote adjustments based on feedback from Tom Lane

  7. docs: adjust RECORD PG 12 relnote item

  8. doc: adjust PG 12 relnotes item on float digit adjustment

  9. doc: adjustments for PG 12 release notes

  10. docs: fix duplicate wording in PG 12 release notes

  11. doc: properly attibute PG 12 pgbench release note item

  12. doc: PG 12 release notes: normalize attribution names

  13. Refactor the fsync queue for wider use.

  14. Add "split after new tuple" nbtree optimization.

  15. Add nbtree high key "continuescan" optimization.

  16. Allow amcheck to re-find tuples using new search.

  17. Consider secondary factors during nbtree splits.

  18. Partial implementation of SQL/JSON path language

  19. Allow extensions to generate lossy index conditions.

  20. Make TupleTableSlots extensible, finish split of existing slot type.

  21. Reduce path length for locking leaf B-tree pages during insertion

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 09:49:40AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:00:38AM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Bruce,
> > 
> > I noticed that jsonpath in your version is mentioned only in functions
> > chapter, but  commit
> > 72b6460336e86ad5cafd3426af6013c7d8457367 is about implementation of
> > SQL-2016 standard. We implemented JSON Path language as a jsonpath
> > datatype with a bunch of support functions, our implementation
> > supports 14 out of 15 features and it's the most complete
> > implementation (we compared oracle, mysql and ms sql).
> 
> Glad you asked.  I was very confused about why a data type was added for
> a new path syntax.  Is it a new storage format for JSON, or something
> else?  I need help on this.

I talked to Alexander Korotkov on chat about this.  The data types are
used as arguments to the functions, similar to how tsquery and tsvector
are used for full text search.

Therefore, the data types are not really useful on their own, but as
support for path functions.  However, path functions are more like JSON
queries, rather than traditional functions, so it odd to list them under
functions, but there isn't a more reasonable place to put them.

Alexander researched how we listed full text search in the release notes
that added the feature, but we had  "General" category at that time that
we don't have now.

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