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Re: unnesting multirange data types

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

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From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-20T08:09:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 10:05:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> > I also don't feel comfortable hurrying with unnest part to beta2.
> > According to the open items wiki page, there should be beta3.  Does
> > unnest part have a chance for beta3?
> 
> Hm.  I'd prefer to avoid another forced initdb after beta2.  On the
> other hand, it's entirely likely that there will be some other thing
> that forces that; in which case there'd be no reason not to push in
> the unnest feature as well.
> 
> I'd say let's sit on the unnest code for a little bit and see what
> happens.

I think $SUBJECT can't simultaneously offer too little to justify its own
catversion bump and also offer enough to bypass feature freeze.  If multirange
is good without $SUBJECT, then $SUBJECT should wait for v15.  Otherwise, the
matter of the catversion bump should not delay commit of $SUBJECT.

Commits

  1. Fix small inconsistencies in catalog definition of multirange operators

  2. Revert 29854ee8d1 due to buildfarm failures

  3. Copy-edit text for the pg_terminate_backend() "timeout" parameter.

  4. Add missing pg_description strings for pg_type entries.

  5. Fix pg_description entries for jsonb_to_record() and jsonb_to_recordset().

  6. docs: clarify JSONB operator descriptions

  7. Set procost to 10 for each of the pg_foo_is_visible() functions.

  8. Make use of LATERAL in information_schema.sequences view.

  9. Add pg_trigger_depth() function

  10. Add database comments to template0 and postgres databases, and improve