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Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Muhammad Ikram <mmikram@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-09T13:11:10Z
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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

On Thu, May  9, 2024 at 04:52:14PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 16:47, Muhammad Ikram <mmikram@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A minor formatting issue in the start below. Bullet is not required here.
> 
> This is a placeholder for the highlight features of v17 will go.
> Bruce tends not to decide what those are all by himself.

Yes, I already have so much of my opinion in the release notes that I
prefer others to make that list, and to make the Acknowledgments list
at the bottom.

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