Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-07-04T21:32:07Z
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, Jul  4, 2023 at 03:31:05PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sawada-san has mentioned on twitter that fdd8937 is not mentioned in
> the release notes, and it seems to me that he is right.  This is
> described as a bug in the commit log, but it did not get backpatched
> because of the lack of complaints.  Also, because we've removed
> support for anything older than Windows 10 in PG16, this change very
> easy to do.

I did review this and wasn't sure exactly what I would describe.  It is
saying huge pages will now work on some versions of Windows 10 but
didn't before?

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