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Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-09-19T17:23:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I mentioned the SPI macros because that could lead to breakage, and
> there might be applications, as well as extensions, that use it.

Sure, this is all a judgement call. I don't think it's particularly
likely that many people are relying on those macros, though, and if
they are, they will mostly likely find out that they're gone when they
try to compile, rather than from reading the release notes. Likewise,
I feel that the new list iteration macros are both optional and minor,
so there's not really a reason to tell people about them. But opinions
will vary, and that's fine. I just mentioned my opinion since you
seemed to be asking. :-)

-- 
Robert Haas
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