Re: someone else to do the list of acknowledgments

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>

Cc: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-09-18T12:25:37Z

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Add list of acknowledgments to release notes
- 142885d38053 18.0 landed
Fix misuse of Relids for storing attribute numbers
- 2d756ebbe857 19 (unreleased) cited
meson: build checksums with extra optimization flags.
- a7024398b80a 18.0 cited
Fix concurrent update issue with MERGE.
- c70b6db34ffe 18.0 cited
Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.
- 67a2fbb8f9e9 18.0 cited
doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
- 31c09ef45636 18.0 cited
doc: mention unusability of dropped CHECK to verify NOT NULL
- 7b1053a57749 18.0 cited
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2025b.
- 368c3fbf9da9 18.0 cited
Fix issue with ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates and FILTER
- d47f922246b5 18.0 cited
Fix guc_malloc calls for consistency and OOM checks
- 058b5152f02e 18.0 cited
doc: clarify default checksum behavior in non-master branches
- 901a1cf8b4a2 18.0 cited
Don't ask for bug reports about pthread_is_threaded_np() != 0.
- 4f15759bdcdd 18.0 cited
doc: Clarify synchronous_standby_names parameter.
- 6313a76b355e 18.0 cited
Fix corruption when relation truncation fails.
- 38c579b08988 18.0 cited
doc: fix ALTER DOMAIN domain_constraint to spell out options
- 4200fea80e79 18.0 cited
doc: Add link to listen_addresses as cause of connection failure
- 1eb5564230a3 18.0 cited
doc: Fix INSERT statement syntax for identity columns
- 17b4aa77c3a1 18.0 cited
Use generateClonedIndexStmt to propagate CREATE INDEX to partitions.
- 68dfecbef210 18.0 cited
Fix race condition in COMMIT PREPARED causing orphaned 2PC files
- cf4401fe6cf5 18.0 cited
vacuumdb: Skip temporary tables in query to build list of relations
- 1ab67c9dfaad 18.0 cited
Speed up Hash Join by making ExprStates support hashing
- adf97c156238 18.0 cited
Preserve CurrentMemoryContext across Start/CommitTransactionCommand.
- 1afe31f03cd2 18.0 cited

On 18.09.25 10:14, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 18 Sep 2025, at 07:02, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> These have been updated. I'm holding off on releasing the update files pending Daniel sending me a list of known preferred names. I'll release another file after I've integrated that list into my process.
> 
> Thanks for working on this!

Now is anyone planning to commit this?  I can do it if no one else is 
lined up.

> Previous years notes do not include names where we only know the email address,
> not sure what our policy on that is.  Personally I think they should be
> included, they are credited in the commitlog so they clearly belong in the
> acknowledgments.

The policy was that we only included persons whose name we know.  The 
reason being, if they don't want to be known, then they also don't need 
to be listed in the credits.