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Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-26T20:20:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2020-Jun-26, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:24:16PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:

> > Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
> > 2020-03-20 [4e6209134] pg_dump: Add FOREIGN to ALTER statements, if appropriate
> > -->
> > 
> >       <para>
> >        Add <literal>FOREIGN</literal> to <command>ALTER</command> statements,
> >        if appropriate (Luis Carril)
> >       </para>

> > IIUC this entry is about that pg_dump adds FOREIGN word to ALTER TABLE
> > command. Please find the attached patch.
> 
> OK, so if that is, what used to happen before?  Did it still work
> without the FOREIGN keyword?  If so, I am thinking we should just remove
> this item.

I tend to agree, it's not a change significant enough to be documented
in the relnotes, i think.

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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