Re: doc review for v14

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2020-12-29T00:59:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:12 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:11:53PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >          Specifies the amount of memory that should be allocated at server
> > -        startup time for use by parallel queries.  When this memory region is
> > +        startup for use by parallel queries.  When this memory region is
> >          insufficient or exhausted by concurrent queries, new parallel queries
> >          try to allocate extra shared memory temporarily from the operating
> >          system using the method configured with
> >          <varname>dynamic_shared_memory_type</varname>, which may be slower due
> >          to memory management overheads.  Memory that is allocated at startup
> > -        time with <varname>min_dynamic_shared_memory</varname> is affected by
> > +        with <varname>min_dynamic_shared_memory</varname> is affected by
> >          the <varname>huge_pages</varname> setting on operating systems where
> >          that is supported, and may be more likely to benefit from larger pages
> >          on operating systems where that is managed automatically.
>
> The current formulation is not that confusing, but I agree that this
> is an improvement.  Thomas, you are behind this one.  What do you
> think?

LGTM.



Commits

  1. Fix typos and grammar in comments and docs

  2. Fix typos and grammar in documentation and code comments

  3. Move pg_stat_statements query jumbling to core.

  4. doc: Improve description of data checksums

  5. Fix some typos, grammar and style in docs and comments

  6. doc: Improve wording of section for repslot statistics

  7. Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw

  8. psql \dX: list extended statistics objects

  9. Add documentation chapter about checksums

  10. Simplify some comments in xml.c

  11. Allow decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.

  12. Extend the output plugin API to allow decoding of prepared xacts.

  13. doc: Improve some grammar and sentences

  14. doc: Improve description of min_dynamic_shared_memory

  15. Fix typos and grammar in docs and comments

  16. Multirange datatypes

  17. Move per-agg and per-trans duplicate finding to the planner.

  18. Allow pg_rewind to use a standby server as the source system.

  19. snapshot scalability: cache snapshots using a xact completion counter.

  20. Add tests for tuplesort.c.

  21. Document piecemeal construction of partitioned indexes

  22. Report progress of CREATE INDEX operations

  23. Fix misc typos, mostly in comments.

  24. Improve pageinspect module

  25. Revamp the WAL record format.

  26. Fix assorted bugs in CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.