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Re: Postgres 11 release notes

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-21T16:52:31Z
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> On May 21, 2018, at 12:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
>> Per feedback from many asynchronous threads, attached is the proposed
>> patch for the list of major features. I also expect a torrent of feedback. I
>> will have a corresponding press release for Beta 1 in the very near future.
>> This being my first doc patch proposal, I tried to follow the formatting I
>> saw in the existing SGML. Please let me know if I can make improvements.
> 
> Pushed with some very minor editorialization.

Thanks! I do agree with your editorial, the main goal now is to give exposure to features for testing.

Jonathan

Commits

  1. doc: update PG 11 release notes

  2. Fix misspelled pg_trgm contrib name in PostgreSQL 11 release notes

  3. Doc: clarify release note text about v11's new window function features.

  4. Improve wording of release notes item

  5. Fix typos in release notes

  6. Doc: preliminary list of PG11 major features.

  7. Make numeric power() handle NaNs according to the modern POSIX spec.

  8. Various improvements of skipping index scan during vacuum technics

  9. Revert back-branch changes in power()'s behavior for NaN inputs.

  10. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on more platforms.

  11. Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on some platforms.

  12. Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possible

  13. Rewrite the code that applies scan/join targets to paths.

  14. Postpone generate_gather_paths for topmost scan/join rel.

  15. Add casts from jsonb

  16. Make plpgsql use its DTYPE_REC code paths for composite-type variables.

  17. Don't allow VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE VERBOSE.

  18. Pass InitPlan values to workers via Gather (Merge).

  19. Account for the effect of lossy pages when costing bitmap scans.

  20. Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.

  21. Rearm statement_timeout after each executed query.

  22. Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.