Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-05-20T18:47:28Z

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Commits

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Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands
- 3890d90c1508 18.0 cited
When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.
- b4da732fd64e 17.0 cited
Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys
- 8aee330af55d 17.0 cited
Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing
- c4ab7da60617 17.0 cited
Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.
- 5bf748b86bc6 17.0 cited
Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser
- 3311ea86edc7 17.0 cited
Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
- 6dbb490261a6 17.0 cited
Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.
- cafe1056558f 17.0 cited
Provide API for streaming relation data.
- b5a9b18cd0bc 17.0 cited
Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.
- 485f0aa85995 17.0 cited
Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.
- 9f133763961e 17.0 cited
Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.
- 91f2cae7a4e6 17.0 cited
Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.
- 8b2bcf3f287c 17.0 cited
Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.
- 14dd0f27d7cd 17.0 cited
Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.
- 519fc1bd9e9d 17.0 cited
Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.
- 2b5154beab79 17.0 cited
Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel
- a8a968a8212e 17.0 cited

Attachments

add_heikki.patch (text/x-patch) patch v1

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 9:37 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 01:23:02PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > Hi Bruce, thanks for doing this again!
> >
> > I'm a bit late to this discussion -- there's been a bit of churn in
> > the vacuum items, and some streams got crossed along the way. I've
> > attached an attempt to rectify this.
>
> Agreed, patch applied, thanks.

If "Allow vacuum to more efficiently remove and freeze tuples" stays
in the release notes, I would add Heikki's name. He wasn't listed as a
co-author on all of the commits that were part of this feature, but he
made a substantial investment in it and should be listed, IMO. Patch
attached.

- Melanie