Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-05-18T09:28:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 3:03 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> I have committed the first draft of the PG 14 release notes.  You can
> see the most current  build of them here:
>
>         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-14.html
>

I think we need to mention in the release note that
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC parameter has been removed and
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor storage parameter has been
deprecated (please refer to commit 9f3665fb and effdd3f3b63).

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
EDB:  https://www.enterprisedb.com/



Commits

  1. doc: add mention of +4GB windows file handling in PG14 relnotes

  2. doc: PG 14 relnotes fixes

  3. doc: PG 14 relnote updates

  4. doc: PG 14 relnotes, adjust pg_{read|write}_all_data entry

  5. Update PG 14 relnotes for vacuum_cost_page_miss

  6. doc: update PG 14 release notes with recent feedback

  7. Update replication statistics after every stream/spill.

  8. Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.

  9. Use NameData datatype for slotname in stats.

  10. Add back vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor parameter.

  11. Don't consider newly inserted tuples in nbtree VACUUM.

  12. pgbench: Improve time logic.

  13. Track total amounts of times spent writing and syncing WAL data to disk.

  14. Allow decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.

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

  16. Fix nbtree cleanup-only VACUUM stats inaccuracies.

  17. Execute invalidation messages for each XLOG_XACT_INVALIDATIONS message

  18. Fix our Windows stat() emulation to handle file sizes > 4GB.

  19. Trigger autovacuum based on number of INSERTs

  20. Speed up planning when partitions can be pruned at plan time.

  21. Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.

  22. Increase work_mem and maintenance_work_mem defaults by 4x