Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-21T00:35:39Z
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 Fri, May 19, 2023 at 11:08:18PM -0400, Isaac Morland wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 22:59, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Sorry for changing the subject line..... 
> 
>     these two commits seems not mentioned.
> 
> 
> On a similar topic, should every committed item from the commitfest be
> mentioned, or only ones that are significant enough?
> 
> I’m wondering because I had a role in this very small item, yet I don’t see it
> listed in the psql section:
> 
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/42/4133/
> 
> It’s OK if we don’t mention every single change, I just want to make sure I
> understand.

I have never considered the presence of an item in the commitfest as an
indicator of importance to be in the release notes.  The major release
notes, for me, is a balance of listing the most visible changes without
going into unmanageable detail.

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