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Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-05-24T16:58:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.

  2. doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"

  3. initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.

  4. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author

  5. doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item

  6. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item

  7. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention

  8. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item

  9. doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization

  10. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit

  11. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text

  12. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge

  13. doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments

  14. doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items

  15. doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item

  16. doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements

  17. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list

  18. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail

  19. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates

  20. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits

  21. Allow logical decoding on standbys

  22. Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.

  23. Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password

  24. Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect

  25. initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.

  26. Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.

  27. Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.

  28. Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()

  29. Make materialized views participate in predicate locking

  30. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management

  31. Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.

On 5/24/23 12:13 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 15:54, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 08:37:45AM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
>>> On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 07:05, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>> * Parallel execution of queries that use `FULL` and `OUTER` joins
>>>
>>> I think this should be `RIGHT` joins rather than `OUTER` joins.
>>>
>>> LEFT joins have been parallelizable I think for a long time now.
>>
>> Well, since we can swap left/right easily, why would we not have just
>> have swappted the tables and done the join in the past?  I think there
>> are two things missing in my description.
>>
>> First, I need to mention parallel _hash_ join.  Second, I think this
>> item is saying that the _inner_ side of a parallel hash join can be an
>> OUTER or FULL join.  How about?
>>
>>          Allow hash joins to be parallelized where the inner side is
>>          processed as an OUTER or FULL join (Melanie Plageman, Thomas Munro)
>>
>> In this case, the inner side is the hashed side.
> 
> I think Jonathan's text is safe to swap OUTER to RIGHT as it mentions
> "execution".

I made this swap in the release announcement. Thanks!

Jonathan