Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-24T03:56:23Z
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.

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 06:27:23PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On 5/23/23 4:37 PM, David Rowley wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 07:05, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
> > > * Parallel execution of queries that use `FULL` and `OUTER` joins
> > 
> > I think this should be `RIGHT` joins rather than `OUTER` joins.
> > 
> > LEFT joins have been parallelizable I think for a long time now.
> 
> I had grabbed it from this line:
> 
>   Allow outer and full joins to be performed in parallel (Melanie Plageman,
> Thomas Munro)
> 
> If we want to be specific on RIGHT joins, I can update it in the release
> announcement, but it may be too late for the release notes (at least for
> beta 1).

We will have many more edits before final so I would not worry about
adjusting the beta1 wording.

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