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Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Brad DeJong <bpd0018@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-06-30T18:56:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On Jun 30, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 30 Jun 2018, at 20:11, Brad DeJong <bpd0018@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I suggest the following edits for the PostgreSQL beta 2 release announcement.
>> I did not provide the edits as a patch because I can't find the source of /about/news/1867.
> 
> The news item is stored in the postgresql.org database, and not in the code, so
> there is no file to patch.  CC:ing -www where website changes are discussed.

The "CHANGES SINCE BETA 1” was applied earlier thanks to a separate report.

I applied wording fixes for the 3 bulleted items listed. I did not see any reason to
change the opening line as well as intro paragraph to the “CHANGES SINCE BETA 1”
section.

Thanks for reporting!

Jonathan

Commits

  1. doc: update PG 11 release notes

  2. Fix misspelled pg_trgm contrib name in PostgreSQL 11 release notes

  3. Doc: clarify release note text about v11's new window function features.

  4. Improve wording of release notes item

  5. Fix typos in release notes

  6. Doc: preliminary list of PG11 major features.

  7. Make numeric power() handle NaNs according to the modern POSIX spec.

  8. Various improvements of skipping index scan during vacuum technics

  9. Revert back-branch changes in power()'s behavior for NaN inputs.

  10. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on more platforms.

  11. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on some platforms.

  12. Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possible

  13. Rewrite the code that applies scan/join targets to paths.

  14. Postpone generate_gather_paths for topmost scan/join rel.

  15. Add casts from jsonb

  16. Make plpgsql use its DTYPE_REC code paths for composite-type variables.

  17. Don't allow VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE VERBOSE.

  18. Pass InitPlan values to workers via Gather (Merge).

  19. Account for the effect of lossy pages when costing bitmap scans.

  20. Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.

  21. Rearm statement_timeout after each executed query.

  22. Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.