Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-05-14T00:56:26Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →

Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands
- 3890d90c1508 18.0 cited
When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.
- b4da732fd64e 17.0 cited
Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys
- 8aee330af55d 17.0 cited
Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing
- c4ab7da60617 17.0 cited
Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.
- 5bf748b86bc6 17.0 cited
Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser
- 3311ea86edc7 17.0 cited
Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
- 6dbb490261a6 17.0 cited
Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.
- cafe1056558f 17.0 cited
Provide API for streaming relation data.
- b5a9b18cd0bc 17.0 cited
Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.
- 485f0aa85995 17.0 cited
Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.
- 9f133763961e 17.0 cited
Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.
- 91f2cae7a4e6 17.0 cited
Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.
- 8b2bcf3f287c 17.0 cited
Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.
- 14dd0f27d7cd 17.0 cited
Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.
- 519fc1bd9e9d 17.0 cited
Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.
- 2b5154beab79 17.0 cited
Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel
- a8a968a8212e 17.0 cited

Attachments

master.diff (text/x-diff) patch

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 10:24:39AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 5/11/24 09:57, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 23:31, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > I looked at both of these.   In both cases I didn't see why the user
> > > > would need to know these changes were made:
> > > 
> > > I agree that the buffering change is not likely interesting, but
> > > the fact that you can now control-C out of a psql "\c" command
> > > is user-visible.  People might have internalized the fact that
> > > it didn't work, or created complicated workarounds.
> > 
> > The buffering change improved performance up to ~40% in some of the
> > benchmarks. The case it improves mostly is COPY of large rows and
> > streaming a base backup. That sounds user-visible enough to me to
> > warrant an entry imho.
> 
> +1

Attached patch applied.


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