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Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-23T15:30:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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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

On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 18:39 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:48:09AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > On Sat, 2024-05-18 at 17:51 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Okay, I went with the attached applied patch.  Adjustments?
> > 
> > I think it should have more emphasis on the actual new feature: a
> > platform-independent builtin collation provider and the C.UTF-8
> > locale.
> > 
> > The user can look at the documentation for comparison with libc.
> 
> Okay, changed with the attached applied patch.

Thank you, looks good to me.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis