Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-05-18T16:01:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
We do retain the reloption, but ignore it. Purely to avoid the dump and
reload hazard. I think that you could reasonably tell users that it's gone
completely, because it does nothing on either 13 or 14. It's hidden from
them to the extent that that's possible.

Peter Geoghegan
(Sent from my phone)

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