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Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2020-05-14T21:10:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:01:51PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-05-12 02:41, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > I'm not opposed to including it, but I think it's still true that the user
> > doesn't need to know in advance that the error message will be additionally
> > helpful in the event of corruption.  If we were to include more "error" items,
> > we might also include these:
> > 
> > 71a8a4f6e36547bb060dbcc961ea9b57420f7190 Add backtrace support for error reporting
> 
> This is actually a legitimate user-visible feature and should be listed
> somewhere.

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:02:52PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> +1 -- it's very handy. Plus it has user-facing knobs.

That's already included:

| Allow function call backtraces of errors to be logged (Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera)
| Server variable backtrace_functions specifies which C functions should generate backtraces on error.

I 1) I failed to double check my list; and, 2) intended for that to be
interpretted as items which could be moved to a separate "error reporting"
section of the release notes.

-- 
Justin

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