Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>

From: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-06-25T02:57:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> On Jun 18, 2026, at 09:45, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 09:34:38PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 10:29:47AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have completed the first draft of the PG 19 release notes:
>>> 
>>> Thanks for working on the release note!
>>> 
>>>    Reduce lock level of ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT to match
>>> ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT (Jian He) §
>>> 
>>> I reverted this change at commit 64797ad97d6, so could you please
>>> remove this item from the release notes?
>> 
>> Oh, I missed that one, removed, thanks.
> 
> Ah, I missed it because it happened today and I was only current as of
> yesterday.  I have now updated to be current as of today.
> 
> -- 
>  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
>  EDB                                      https://enterprisedb.com
> 
>  Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.

Hi, Bruce,

I noticed a typo in the item about “2026-03-27 [d7965d65f] Add rudimentary table prioritization to autovacuum”. The line is quite long, so I attached a diff file for your convenience.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/




Commits

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  1. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove VALIDATE CONSTRAINT lock item

  2. Fix ALTER DOMAIN VALIDATE CONSTRAINT locking

  3. Revert "Enable fast default for domains with non-volatile constraints"

  4. doc PG 19 relnotes: improve awkward or confusing wording

  5. doc PG 19 relnotes: more fixes

  6. doc PG 19 relnotes: various corrections

  7. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjust item to mention pg_replication_slots

  8. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Add fake LSN support to hash index"

  9. doc PG 19 relnotes: add two optimizer hooks

  10. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Optionally" for CPU optimizations

  11. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjustments/removal of items

  12. doc PG 19 relnotes: add UTF-8 case folding performance item

  13. doc PG 19 relnotes: correct two items

  14. doc PG 19 relnotes: add missing commits and details

  15. doc PG 19 relnotes: fix typo, "date" -> "data"

  16. doc PG 19 relnotes: add author and move items

  17. doc PG 19 relnotes: update author

  18. doc PG 19 relnotes: add free space map all-visible item

  19. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Lakshmi N" as author of checksums

  20. doc PG 19 relnotes: fix "now targets"

  21. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjust ShmemRequestStruct item

  22. Improve various new-to-v19 appendStringInfo calls

  23. doc: Fix data_checksums data type

  24. Fix WITHOUT OVERLAPS' interaction with domains.

  25. Online enabling and disabling of data checksums

  26. Doc: split functions-posix-regexp section into multiple subsections.

  27. make immutability tests in to_json and to_jsonb complete

  28. Optimize tuple deformation

  29. pgstattuple: Optimize pgstattuple_approx() with streaming read

  30. Use fake LSNs to improve nbtree dropPin behavior.

  31. Use streaming read for VACUUM cleanup of GIN

  32. Clean up ICU includes.

  33. ICU: use UTF8-optimized case conversion API

  34. Add the MODE option to the WAIT FOR LSN command

  35. Speedup tuple deformation with additional function inlining