Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-24T13:58:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  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 Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:23:02PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:19 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > Second, you might be correct that the section is wrong.  I thought of
> > CPU instructions as something tied to the compiler, so part of the build
> > process or source code, but the point we should be make is that we have
> > these acceleration, not how it is implemented.  We can move the entire
> > group to the "General Performance" section, or we can split it out:
> 
> Splitting out like that seems like a good idea to me. 

Okay, items split into sections and several merged.  I left the
CPU-specific parts in Source Code, and moved the rest into a merged item
in General Performance, but moved the JSON item to Data Types.

Patch attached, and you can see the results at:

	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-16.html

> The last one refers to new internal functions, so it could stay in source code.
> (Either way, we don't want to imply that arrays of SQL types are accelerated
> this way, it's so far only for internal arrays.)

Good point.  I called them "C arrays" but it it into the General
Performance item.

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