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Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-31T20:03:06Z
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 30.08.22 22:42, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Good question --- the full text is:
> > 
> >       <listitem>
> >        <para>
> >         Record and check the collation of each <link
> >         linkend="sql-createdatabase">database</link> (Peter Eisentraut)
> >        </para>
> > 
> >        <para>
> >         This is designed to detect collation
> >         mismatches to avoid data corruption.  Function
> >         <function>pg_database_collation_actual_version()</function>
> >         reports the underlying operating system collation version, and
> >         <command>ALTER DATABASE ...  REFRESH</command> sets the database
> >         to match the operating system collation version.  DETAILS?
> >        </para>
> >       </listitem>
> > 
> > I just can't figure out what the user needs to understand about this,
> > and I understand very little of it.
> 
> We already had this feature for (schema-level) collations, now we have it on
> the level of the database collation.

Okay, I figured out the interplay between OS collation version support,
collation libraries, and collation levels.  Here is an updated patch for
the release notes.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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Commits

  1. Doc: last minute adjustment to the release notes

  2. Doc: more tweaking of v15 release notes.

  3. Doc: further adjust notes about pg_upgrade_output.d.

  4. Doc: add list of major features to the v15 release notes.

  5. relnotes: update item about public schema permission change

  6. relnotes: update ordered partition scan item

  7. relnotes: add Heikki to UTF8 item

  8. relnotes: improve UTF8 text item in relation to ASCII

  9. relnotes: add null logical replication item

  10. relnotes: adjust several logical replication items and FK text

  11. relnotes: mention non-exclusive backup mode was deprecated

  12. relnotes: add author to in-memory sorts item

  13. relnotes: update for non-exclusive backup mode removal

  14. relnote: improve sorting entries

  15. relnotes: adjustments from Álvaro Herrera

  16. relnotes: update foreign key partition and add sort items

  17. relnotes: more adjustments

  18. relnotes: logical replication permissions checked by subscrib.

  19. relnotes: adjustments

  20. relnotes: remove sequence replication and update 'postgres -C'

  21. relnote: extensive updates

  22. relnotes: "training" -> "trailing"

  23. Standardize references to Zstandard as <productname>

  24. pgstat: Update docs to match the shared memory stats reality.

  25. Raise a WARNING for missing publications.

  26. Skip empty transactions for logical replication.

  27. Optionally disable subscriptions on error.

  28. Allow root-owned SSL private keys in libpq, not only the backend.

  29. Use COPY FREEZE in pgbench for faster benchmark table population.