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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: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-22T18:01:29Z
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

I have added the major features to the release notes with the attached
patch.

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On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 07:53:38PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On 5/21/23 3:04 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > On 5/18/23 4:49 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I have completed the first draft of the PG 16 release notes.
> > 
> > One thing that we could attempt for this beta is to include a
> > prospective list of "major features + enhancements." Of course it can
> > change before the GA, but it'll give readers some idea of things to
> > test.
> > 
> > I'd propose the following (in no particular order):
> > 
> > * General performance improvements for read-heavy workloads (looking for
> > clarification for that in[1])
> 
> Per [1] this sounds like it should be:
> 
> * Optimization to reduce overall memory usage, including general performance
> improvements.
> 
> We can get more specific for the GA.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5749E807-A5B7-4CC7-8282-84F6F0D4D1D0%40anarazel.de
> 




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