Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-05-12T17:47:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2020-May-07, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> OK, I have moved her name to be first.  FYI, this commit was backpatched
> back through PG 11, though the commit message doesn't mention that.

At some point I became an avid user of our src/tools/git_changelog, and
then it stopped making sense for me to highlight in the commit message
the fact that the commit is back-patched, since it's so obvious there.
Maybe that's wrong and I should get back in the habit of mentioning it.

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Commits

  1. Doc: improve release notes' info about FROM UNPACKAGED feature removal.

  2. Doc: fix misstatement in v13 release notes.

  3. Doc: some more v13 release note tweaking.

  4. Doc: update v13 release notes through today, do a copy-editing pass.

  5. Doc: fill in "major enhancements" list in v13 release notes.

  6. doc: PG 13 relnotes: fix typos

  7. doc: PG 13 relnotes, update TOAST item to mention decompression

  8. pgbench: document that the default data loading is client-side

  9. psql \d: Display table where trigger is defined, if inherited

  10. Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.

  11. Introduce vacuum errcontext to display additional information.

  12. Fix lquery's behavior for consecutive '*' items.

  13. Improve the internal implementation of ereport().

  14. Add object names to partition integrity violations.

  15. Allow page lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  16. Allow relation extension lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  17. Introduce "anycompatible" family of polymorphic types.

  18. Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck.

  19. doc: Add information about new SQL part SQL/MDA

  20. Added relation name in error messages for constraint checks.

  21. Avoid full scan of GIN indexes when possible

  22. Use carriage returns for data insertion logs in pgbench on terminal

  23. Use memcpy instead of a byte loop in pglz_decompress

  24. Add backtrace support for error reporting

  25. Improve pruning of a default partition

  26. Improve psql's \d output for partitioned indexes.

  27. initdb: Change authentication defaults