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Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

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From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-05-05T06:10:54Z
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Hi,

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:47 AM Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> út 5. 5. 2020 v 5:16 odesílatel Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> napsal:
>>
>> I have committed the first draft of the PG 13 release notes.  You can
>> see them here:
>>
>>         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-13.html
>>
>> It still needs markup, word wrap, and indenting.  The community doc
>> build should happen in a few hours.
>
>
> There is not note about new polymorphic type "anycompatible"
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=24e2885ee304cb6a94fdfc25a1a108344ed9f4f7

There's also no note about avoiding full GIN index scan
(https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4b754d6c16e16cc1a1adf12ab0f48603069a0efd).
That's a corner case optimization but it can be a huge improvement
when you hit the problem.

Commits

  1. Doc: improve release notes' info about FROM UNPACKAGED feature removal.

  2. Doc: fix misstatement in v13 release notes.

  3. Doc: some more v13 release note tweaking.

  4. Doc: update v13 release notes through today, do a copy-editing pass.

  5. Doc: fill in "major enhancements" list in v13 release notes.

  6. doc: PG 13 relnotes: fix typos

  7. doc: PG 13 relnotes, update TOAST item to mention decompression

  8. pgbench: document that the default data loading is client-side

  9. psql \d: Display table where trigger is defined, if inherited

  10. Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.

  11. Introduce vacuum errcontext to display additional information.

  12. Fix lquery's behavior for consecutive '*' items.

  13. Improve the internal implementation of ereport().

  14. Add object names to partition integrity violations.

  15. Allow page lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  16. Allow relation extension lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  17. Introduce "anycompatible" family of polymorphic types.

  18. Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck.

  19. doc: Add information about new SQL part SQL/MDA

  20. Added relation name in error messages for constraint checks.

  21. Avoid full scan of GIN indexes when possible

  22. Use carriage returns for data insertion logs in pgbench on terminal

  23. Use memcpy instead of a byte loop in pglz_decompress

  24. Add backtrace support for error reporting

  25. Improve pruning of a default partition

  26. Improve psql's \d output for partitioned indexes.

  27. initdb: Change authentication defaults