Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>

From: torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-22T12:25:41Z
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

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On 2024-05-09 13:03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
> see the results here:
> 
> 	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
> 
> It will be improved until the final release.  The item count is 188,
> which is similar to recent releases:
> 
> 	release-10:  189
> 	release-11:  170
> 	release-12:  180
> 	release-13:  178
> 	release-14:  220
> 	release-15:  184
> 	release-16:  206
> 	release-17:  188
> 
> I welcome feedback.  For some reason it was an easier job than usual.

Thanks for working on this as always.

<para>
Allow pg_stat_reset_shared("slru") to clear SLRU statistics (Atsushi 
Torikoshi)
</para>

Considering someone may copy and paste this, 'slru' is better than 
"slru", isn't it?
I also found an older release note[1] used single quotes for this like:

   Add pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter') to reset the cluster-wide shared 
statistics for the background writer (Greg Smith)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/9.0.0/

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Regards,

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Atsushi Torikoshi
NTT DATA Group Corporation