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Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-11T17:50:40Z
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  1. Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands

  2. When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.

  3. Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys

  4. Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing

  5. Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.

  6. Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser

  7. Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM

  8. Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.

  9. Provide API for streaming relation data.

  10. Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.

  11. Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.

  12. Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.

  13. Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.

  14. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  15. Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.

  16. Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.

  17. Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel

Hello,

I noticed that these two items in the current notes are separate:

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Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2024-03-25 [374c7a229] Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2024-03-28 [e2395cdbe] ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID
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     <listitem>
      <para>
      Allow specification of partitioned <link linkend="tableam">table
      access methods</link> (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep Chakraborty,
      Michael Paquier)
      </para>
     </listitem>

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Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2024-03-08 [d61a6cad6] Add support for DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS MET
-->

     <listitem>
      <para>
      Add <literal>DEFAULT</literal> setting for <literal>ALTER TABLE
      .. SET ACCESS METHOD</literal> (Michael Paquier)
      </para>
     </listitem>

They are very very closely related, so I suggest they should be
together as a single item.  Also, the first one is somewhat strangely
worded IMO (we don't have "partitioned table access methods" -- rather,
we have table access methods for partitioned tables).  Maybe something
like

* Improve ALTER TABLE ... SET ACCESS METHOD

  This command can now also be applied to partitioned tables, so that it
  can <link to "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-DESC-SET-ACCESS-METHOD">
  influence partitions created later</link>. (Justin, Soumyadeep, Michaël)

  In addition, it now accepts the value DEFAULT to reset a previously
  set value. (Michaël)


There's also a bunch of items on EXPLAIN, which could perhaps be grouped
in a single item with sub-paras for each individual change; I'd also
move it to the bottom of E.1.3.2.

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