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Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-19T03:47:21Z
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 1:11 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> FYI, the most recent PG 14 relnote doc build is at:
>
>         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-14.html

I just pushed a commit that makes the existing vacuum_index_cleanup
reloption and INDEX_CLEANUP VACUUM parameter support disabling the
"Allow vacuum to skip index vacuuming when the number of removable
index entries is insignificant" behavior. This should be mentioned in
the release notes.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

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