Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-05-15T16:31:59Z

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doc PG 19 relnotes: more fixes
- 8656ba7f7187 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: various corrections
- 1d751b4b6b01 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: adjust item to mention pg_replication_slots
- cfedd4513357 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Add fake LSN support to hash index"
- 41b60bf172ef 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: add two optimizer hooks
- cac0f24eb57f 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Optionally" for CPU optimizations
- 06fccab4c61b 19 (unreleased) landed
doc PG 19 relnotes: adjustments/removal of items
- 8974a7c433d3 19 (unreleased) landed
Use fake LSNs to improve nbtree dropPin behavior.
- 8a879119a1d1 19 (unreleased) cited
Clean up ICU includes.
- af2d4ca191a4 19 (unreleased) cited

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I have completed the first draft of the PG 19 release notes:
>
>         https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-19.html

I do not think that this item merits mention in the release notes:

"Add fake LSN support to hash index AM (Peter Geoghegan)"

It offers no user-visible benefit. It's just preparation for index
prefetching, which didn't make it into Postgres 19.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan