PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-05-18T20:49:47Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.
- 151c22deee66 17.0 cited
doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"
- c729642bd760 16.0 cited
initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.
- 2535c74b1a61 16.0 cited
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author
- b9e3f8005c99 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item
- e6a254c0d4af 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item
- 409d24485cbe 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention
- f7c16a120cfa 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item
- 0bcb3ca3b95b 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization
- 5a6464096622 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit
- 9e28b83ae6fa 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text
- 503b0556d96f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge
- 46ba86cd32dc 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments
- 5c2c59ba0b5f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items
- ad5406246bff 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item
- a817edbf6f30 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements
- 5cb54fc310fb 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list
- 60751aa50313 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail
- de7c3fd34e0f 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates
- c822358a256c 16.0 landed
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits
- 30579d23b226 16.0 landed
Allow logical decoding on standbys
- 0fdab27ad68a 16.0 cited
Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.
- 029dea882a7a 16.0 cited
Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password
- 419a8dd8142a 16.0 cited
Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect
- 5c1b6628075a 16.0 cited
initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.
- c45dc7ffbba2 16.0 cited
Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.
- 78ee60ed84bb 16.0 cited
Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.
- 3ea7329c9a79 16.0 cited
Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()
- 13e0d7a60385 16.0 cited
Make materialized views participate in predicate locking
- 43351557d0d2 16.0 cited
Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management
- c6e0fe1f2a08 16.0 cited
Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.
- e3ce2de09d81 16.0 cited

I have completed the first draft of the PG 16 release notes.  You can
see the output here:

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

I will adjust it to the feedback I receive;  that URL will quickly show
all updates.

I learned a few things creating it this time:

*  I can get confused over C function names and SQL function names in
   commit messages.

*  The sections and ordering of the entries can greatly clarify the
   items.

*  The feature count is slightly higher than recent releases:

	release-10:  189
	release-11:  170
	release-12:  180
	release-13:  178
	release-14:  220
	release-15:  184
-->	release-16:  200

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