Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-09T04:53:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands

  2. When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.

  3. Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys

  4. Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing

  5. Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.

  6. Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser

  7. Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM

  8. Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.

  9. Provide API for streaming relation data.

  10. Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.

  11. Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.

  12. Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.

  13. Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.

  14. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  15. Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.

  16. Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.

  17. Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel

Hi,

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 12:03:50AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
> see the results here:
> 
> 	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html

Thanks for working on that!
 
> I welcome feedback.

> Add system view pg_wait_events that reports wait event types (Michael Paquier) 

Michael is the committer for 1e68e43d3f, the author is me.

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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