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Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-08-09T22:03:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.

  2. doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"

  3. initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.

  4. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author

  5. doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item

  6. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item

  7. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention

  8. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item

  9. doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization

  10. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit

  11. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text

  12. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge

  13. doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments

  14. doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items

  15. doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item

  16. doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements

  17. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list

  18. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail

  19. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates

  20. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits

  21. Allow logical decoding on standbys

  22. Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.

  23. Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password

  24. Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect

  25. initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.

  26. Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.

  27. Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.

  28. Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()

  29. Make materialized views participate in predicate locking

  30. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management

  31. Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.

Attachments

On Sat, Aug  5, 2023 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-16.html
> 
> > <!--
> > Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
> > 2023-01-10 [cf5eb37c5] Restrict the privileges of CREATEROLE users.
> > -->
> > 
> > <listitem>
> > <para>
> > Restrict the privileges of CREATEROLE roles (Robert Haas)
> > </para>
> > 
> > <para>
> > Previously roles with CREATEROLE privileges could change many aspects of any non-superuser role.  Such changes, including adding members, now require the role requesting the change to have ADMIN OPTION
> > permission.
> > </para>
> > </listitem>
> > 
> > <!--
> > Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
> > 2023-01-24 [f1358ca52] Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.
> > -->
> > 
> > <listitem>
> > <para>
> > Improve logic of CREATEROLE roles ability to control other roles (Robert Haas)
> > </para>
> > 
> > <para>
> > For example, they can change the CREATEDB, REPLICATION, and BYPASSRLS properties only if they also have those permissions.
> > </para>
> > </listitem>
> 
> CREATEROLE is a radically different feature in v16.  In v15-, it was an
> almost-superuser.  In v16, informally speaking, it can create and administer
> its own collection of roles, but it can't administer roles outside its
> collection or grant memberships or permissions not offered to itself.  Hence,
> let's move these two into the incompatibilities section.  Let's also merge
> them, since f1358ca52 is just doing to clauses like CREATEDB what cf5eb37c5
> did to role memberships.

Good point. I have adjusted this item with the attached patch.

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