Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-23T12:50:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:03 AM 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 need clarification on many items, and the document still needs its
> items properly ordered, and markup added.  I also expect a lot of
> feedback.
>
> I plan to work on completing this document this coming week in
> preparation for beta next week.

Very good, thanks.

I just noticed that these commits are missing, yet are very important
new features:
d9d076222f5b94a8
f9900df5f9
c98763bf51bf

These are important enough to be major features of PG14.

-- 
Simon Riggs                http://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